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Henry Cros (1840-1907) "Le centaureChiron & Circé", circ - Lot 14

Henry Cros (1840-1907) "Le centaureChiron & Circé", circa 1898-1900. Polychrome pâte de verre vase in a coin mold, with a flattened, shouldered ovoid body adorned with two handles at the top. Decorated in slight relief with masks of ancient tragedy on the short sides, a centaur and Achilles on one side and two naked women surrounding the sorceress Circe and her snakes on the other (sand-reinforced base and neck, minor material defects, burst firing bubbles). H. 27.5 cm Provenance : - Galerie Marc Lamouric, Louvre des Antiquaires, Paris, acquired 1980 - Christie Mayer Lefkowith Collection, New-York Exhibition : - Exposition Universelle, Paris, 1900 - Corning Museum, "Glass from World's Fairs 1851-1900", 1986 Bibliography: - Official catalog of the 1900 Exposition Universelle, Group II - class 9, vase number 167 p. 185. - Léonce Bénédicte, "Henry Cros, 1840 - 1907", Catalogue du Salon d'Automne 1922, p. 375 for a mention of the vase and its presentation at the 1900 Exposition Universelle. - Janine Bloch-Dermant, "L'Estampille l'objet d'art", 1989, sheet 223F, our vase referenced on pp. 93 & 94. - Monique Joulin-Martineau, under the direction of Mr. Eric Darragon, Henry Cros (1840-1907) - Une vision de la sculpture, PhD thesis in Art History, Université de Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, 2007, Vol. I: pp. 22 & 349 for mention of sketches of our vase in the Carnet Custodia; pp. 348-349 for mention and description of our vase and its presentation at the 1900 Exposition Universelle; Vol. II - Appendices: our vase mentioned on p. 25 in the section "Pâte de verre polychrome - Art décoratif" and reproduced and referenced under no. 129. - Collective work, Henry Cros 1840-1907 sculpteur et dessinateur, Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris, 2024, p. 81 for the drawing representing our vase belonging to the Museum. Historical background: The official catalog of the 1900 Exposition Universelle refers to a vase by Henry Cros under no. 167, "le centaure Chiron, Circé - pâte de verre". A drawing by Henry Cros preserved at the Musée des Arts Décoratifs in Paris (inv. no. 2015.160.5) shows one side of our vase under the title "Vase au Centaure, l'éducation d'Achille" (Centaur vase, Achilles' education), and also shows the drawings of the masks on the sides of our vase and a sketch of Circe and her snakes. The "Pastorale" vase, a counterpart to ours, also preserved at the Musée des Arts Décoratifs in Paris (inv. n°LOUVRE OA 6744) is identically designed, with joints connecting parts molded separately and then probably cold-glued. Our piece, which predates the "Pastorale" vase, has a five-piece mold, whereas the latter has only two. With the Chiron and Circe vase, Henry Cros does more than illustrate a mythological episode: he stages the meeting of two opposing worlds, that of wisdom and that of enchantment. Through the shifting transparencies of pâte de verre, the figures seem to appear and disappear in the light, like a fragmentary memory of antiquity. Henry Cros played an essential role in the revival of pâte de verre at the end of the 19th century. Trained at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris by sculptors Antoine Étex (1808-1888) and François Jouffroy (1806-1882), he began his career as a sculptor before turning his attention to polychrome plastic art. From the 1880s onwards, after several experiments with mass-tinted wax, he set about rediscovering the ancient processes of pâte de verre, which he saw as a genuine sculptural medium. The vase Chiron et Circé, presented at the 1900 Exposition Universelle in Paris, is one of the most ambitious works of this research. The adoption of the vase form, uncommon in Cros's production typology dominated by bas-relief, gives it a singular status. Made using a mold with pieces assembled by firing, it retains visible welds that testify as much to the technical difficulties of execution as to the artist's desire to preserve a form of archaism in the material. The artist works with pâte de verre like a painter composes an image: the colored silhouettes stand out against a pale blue background, the women's flesh tinged with pink, responding to the brown and yellow tones of the centaur's complexion. The deliberately restrained palette reinforces the silent unity of the scene. Here, Cros associates two mythological figures with opposing values: Chiron, the wise centaur and educator of ancient heroes, embodies knowledge, mastery and harmony between nature and reason; Circe, on the other hand, belongs to the realm of metamorphosis, enchantment and

Estimación:€60,000.00

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