Ref.11825
Set of parquet panels of different wood species, from the 20th century

Set of square shaped parquet panels, made of three different wood species including walnut and oak. Dimensions of each panel 20,08 x 20,08 inch. The set consists of 40 full panels and 20 half panels. All this for a surface area of about 12 m2.

Ref.12932
Manufacture de Sèvres «Matinado », ceramic sculpture from a model by Félix CHARPENTIER, 1910

Our marble sculpture is a copy of the original model exhibited in the 1909 Salon des Artistes Français by Félix Charpentier (1858-1924), untitled « Matinado », morning in Italian. It was made by the Manufacture de Sèvres in 1910, as indicate the marks on the back. Félix Charpentier was an important sculptor in the last decades of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century. After studying in the École des Beaux-Arts of Avignon, then in Paris, he shows in 1879, then regularly each year, his works in the Salon des Artistes français. He knows during all his career, a huge success and wins a silver medal in the International Exhibition of 1889, many medals for his sends to the Salon, very often bought by the State, and receives in April 1892, the Légion d’honneur. The plaster model of our sculpture depicting a stretching naked woman, was presented in the 1907 Salon des Artistes Français. Already considered as true masterpiece, the marble sculpture was ordered by the State to the sculptor in 1908, meaning one year before its official presentation to the Salon in 1909. This same year, the sculpture was attributed to Louvre Museum, then in 1911 to the Luxembourg Museum before being given in the Musée des Beaux-Arts of Arras in 1926. For the plaster, also bought by the State, it was given to the Musée des Beaux-Arts et d’Histoire of Châteaudun. By knowing a true success, many reductions were made by the sculptor who had also a collaboration with the Manufacture de Sèvres to create in ceramic his most important sculptures like our beautiful awakened, which was very likely one of the first made. We can see one of the example on a photograph of the manufactory display in the Exposition Internationale urbaine de Lyon in 1914, and on another picture illustrating the article « La Manufacture de Sèvres à l’Exposition Internationale de Lyon » published in the newspaper Comœdia, on the 24th of january 1914.

Ref.13874
Affortunato GORI, Sculpture in Carrara marble depicting three busts of children on its original column

This Carrara marble sculpture bears the signature "A. Gori" of the Florentine sculptor Affortunato Gori (active between 1895 and 1925), from his real name Fortunato Gori. After studied in Firenze under the direction of Auguste Rivalta, our sculptor moves to Paris in the beginning of the 20th century and exhibits in the Salon des Artistes Français from 1902 and until 1923. He makes here a sculpture that is full of delicacy, hrough the representation in buist of three children hugging each other. One of them is kissing on the cheek the child with curly hair placed on the center of the composition, while the other one grabs his chin to bring his cheek closer to his, their arms crossing on the back. The sculptor translates with this work the expression of kindness and love, as it comes from their smiles and as we can read in the children's eyes. the ovale base ovale of our sculpture was made of a very beautiful Arabescato marble, it rests on a original pedestal forming an elegant column sculpted in Saint Rémy marble.