The Art of Rene Lalique
 

«Expert Online» /September 17, 2010

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The exhibition "The Art of Rene Lalique" opened yesterday in Moscow. According to head of the exhibition department of the Moscow Kremlin Museum Victoria Pavlenko, the exposition will feature jewelry made at the turn of the XIX-XX centuries, as well as "experiments with glass - vases, bowls, lamps, which will be complemented by a set of sketches.

Thanks sketches visitors will be able to trace the entire path of creating a work of art - from idea to a specific embodiment, said Pavlenko. "We Lalique had his own style that no one be confused, and the exhibition was meant to trace all the stages of his work, to see how it worked," - said the employee of the Kremlin museums.

The exhibition demonstrates the order of 200 subjects of one of the principal masters of the era of "Art Nouveau", including brooches and pins with the characteristic of modernity zoomorphic motifs. The Kremlin will be exhibits from the collections of the Metropolitan Museum, Museum of the Calouste Gulbenkian Museum in Lisbon, Paris Society "Lalique", Danish Museum of Art and Design, the Hermitage and other collections.

Author: Anton Mesnyanko, author of "Expert Online»

Exhibition "The Art of Rene Lalique" in the Moscow Kremlin

Sept. 16, 2010 - January 9, 2011, Moscow Kremlin Museums

The exhibition is devoted to the famous French artist Rene Lalique (1860-1945), with refined artistry embodying in his works the image of one of the most romantic eras in European culture and art - Art Nouveau style. In its scope and variety of exhibits put up a draft of the museum-reserve "Moscow Kremlin" will be a unique event, because the artist's creations are practically absent in the Russian museum collections. Exhibition in the Moscow Kremlin to open the art of Rene Lalique our country. Most reputable museums and private collectors of France, Portugal, USA, Japan and Denmark, among them the Metropolitan Museum (New York), Lalique Museum (Hakone, Japan), the Calouste Gulbenkian Museum (Lisbon) and the Danish Museum of Art and Design (Copenhagen) will provide the museum-reserve "Moscow Kremlin" numerous artifacts, including masterpieces of jewelry, steklodelnogo and graphic arts.

The exhibition will present the best works of the famous French artist, created in the late XIX - early XX centuries: About 70 jewelry and glass products 25 and 40 sketches. The purpose of the exhibition - to show original art innovations Lalique, the force of his art, as well as the diversity and complexity of new technological procedures developed by the master.

The exhibition is supervised by the chief curator of jewelry XX century in Moscow Kremlin Museums Larissa Peshekhonov and chief curator of the Division of Cultural Heritage and former director of the Paris Museum of Decorative Arts Yvonne Brunhammer. The exhibition is organized with the assistance of SVO Art, prepare and organize in 2007 a retrospective of "Lalique. Exclusive jewelry, 1890-1912 "at the Luxembourg Museum in Paris and the Museum of Brea in Berlin. The exhibition will be prepared lavishly illustrated catalog, which will be the first and only edition in Russian, dedicated to the art of the great French master.

1. Colored crystal. 1400 euro.
2. Reincarnation of the cult in crystal vases.
3. 850 euros
4. For the first time after nearly 100-year hiatus, released a vase in the technique of the disappearing wax. 49 copies. 38,000 euros.
5. Plaster mold vyzy.
6. Gradient color from light gray to black.
Crystal. The recommended price of 3500 euros.
7. 99 copies. The recommended price of 60,000 euros. Contact vase (crystal cube)

René Lalique, maître verrier et bijoutier



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The Art of Rene Lalique

 On September 16, 2010 to January 9, 2011

 The Moscow Kremlin Museums, an exhibition hall of the Assumption Belfry
 
Exhibition dedicated to the art of Rene Lalique, organized within the Year of Russia in France and France to Russia. This is the first large-scale demonstration of unique works of famous French painter, whose name in European jewelry art of the late XIX - XX centuries due to the birth of one of the most romantic styles in world culture - Art Nouveau. Rene Lalique - a great jeweler, master of gold and silver case, a fine painter, a brilliant stylist, designer and master of art glass - belongs to the constellation of the best artists of his time. His works during his lifetime have become classics of XX century.

About Rene Lalique still speak only in superlatives. The versatility of his talent is striking: he was a designer of unique and sophisticated businessman, fine jeweler and master of the finest artistic glass. It without exaggeration be called a revolutionary jewelry. He was a bold experimenter in working with colored stones and enamels, and various metal alloys. In the history of jewelry name Rene Lalique is on a par with the renowned Russian master of Carl Faberge, the famous French jeweler Frederic Boucheron and Louis Francois Cartier, the renowned American artist and designer Louis Tiffany.

In the Moscow Kremlin Museums presents about a hundred and seventy of the artist. Among them are paintings, jewelry and accessories created by Rene Lalique in the period 1886-1887 years in the 1920's, furnishings and art glass, made in the style of Art Nouveau and Art Deco at the turn of the XIX-XX. The works presented in the exhibition belong to museums around the world and the well-known private collectors. Among them, the State Hermitage Museum, State Archives of the Russian Federation, the Metropolitan Museum in New York, Museum of the Calouste Gulbenkian Museum in Lisbon, the Danish Museum of Art and Design in Copenhagen, Lambin Museum in Versailles, the Museum of Fine Arts in Quimper, Joint Stock Company "Lalique in Paris and others.

Retrospective creativity Rene Lalique, the first time such a complete picture of the exhibition is a significant event in the international artistic life. Symbolically, that some works the artist executed in the 1896-1897 years to order the French government, served as the official memorial gifts during the visit of Emperor Nicholas II to France in 1896 and the French President Félix Faure to Russia in 1897, representing the friendly relations between the two Powers. I ordered Lalique jewelry Russian Empress Alexandra Feodorovna, wife of Nicholas II. The exhibition demonstrates drawing stick umbrella from the sun or rain, intended for her, as judged by the inscription: "Her Majesty - Empress Alexandra Feodorovna - WALKING STICK 600. Artist created jewelry for the great French actress Sarah Bernhardt, his works were in great demand by fashionable women of Paris, Moscow, St. Petersburg and other cities in the world.

The exhibition is interesting wide audience and promote further development and strengthening of cultural relations between Russia and France.

Photographs of works of Rene Lalique Museum Calouste Gulbenyana (Portugal):

Article from the organizers.
 

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Lalique, Rene (Lalique, René) (1860-1945), French fashion designer and entrepreneur, a representative of modernity, leading figures of jewelry and artistic glass.
Born in the town of Hay (Department of the Marne) 6 April 1860. In 1876 he enrolled as an apprentice to a goldsmith, he continued his education at the School of Decorative Arts in Paris and the studios of London (1878-1880). He worked on the orders of the house of Cartier, and then - with P. Destapa, who gave him in 1886, manages his workshop. Advertising its products contributed to a resounding success at the World Expo 1900, and the fact that among the principal ordered it Lalique was a famous Sarah Bernhardt.

Created combs, buckles and various ornaments, using, in addition to the traditional gold, silver and precious stones, horn, as well as semiprecious stones, a total of almost released at the time of use. Do everything to raise his - against the backdrop of intensive mechanization of jewelry - the value of manual labor and figurative beginning, opposing the latest luxury purely quantitative (number of carats in "A Lalique", usually much less than in the same kind of standard jewelry at the time). Introduced into their works unprecedented for this kind of sharp dramatic arts: in addition to whimsical curling women's hair and drapery, flowers and peacocks of his favorite motifs were shimmering snake and insects. Introducing the grotesque and mythological.

From 1909 he focused his interests exclusively to art glass, becoming a reformer in this area. Founded a glass factory at Combs-la-Ville (1910), and in 1918 bought another, larger plant in Vinzhen sur Modera (Alsace). Preferred (as compared with glass, E. Halle) is much more simple shapes and surfaces, decorating them, however, subtle relief, delicately podtsvechennym decor. In this model, cast or pressed into forms that provided mass production (led the way in her famous perfume bottles, but the company Lalique produced as a dining room and decorative utensils, lamps and chandeliers, and later the large decorative panels). Appearing one of the stylistic sources of Art Deco, his glassmaking reached peaks of popularity in 1920 when the panels and other products Lalique has become one of the main decorations of the French department of the International Exhibition of Decorative Arts in Paris (1925).

Lalique died in Paris on May 5, 1945.


Photographs of works of Rene Lalique Museum d'Orsay (France) and the Calouste Gulbenkian (Portugal):

René LALIQUE (1860-1945)
 

The most expensive work (not jewelry) Release Artprays:


Sales date 12/6/2005

Hammer price EUR 180,000

EUR 180,000 - USD 211,014 - GBP 121,806

Estimate EUR 200,000 - 220,000
   

Medium Sculpture, glass (moulé à cire perdue)

Location Paris (FR)

Size H 44.5 cm - (H 17 1 /2 in)

Auction house Boisgirard (S.V.V.)

Dated 1903

Lot number 156

Found an interesting article about Rene Lalique and his time. This article is in radio communication with the exhibition "Lalique. Exclusive jewelry, 1890-1912 "which was held in 2007 in the Luxembourg Museum in Paris. Incidentally, the current exhibition as well as Moscow and Paris is organized with the assistance of SVO Art. Works presented in the Kremlin, belong to the same museums that participated in the exhibition of 2007.

  
Ivan Tolstoy: Let's start with Paris, where he opened an exhibition of one of the pillars of the Art Nouveau style. The story of Dmitry Savitsky.

Dmitry Savitsky: The Museum of the Senate that in the Luxembourg Garden, an exhibition of works of the brightest representative of the flow of Art Nouveau Lalique Reno, whom Emil Gal said that Lalique "invented the modern decoration. Lalique but hardly fit in the word "jewelry" ...

In 1895 German galereyschik, art dealer and objects of applied art, Siegfried Bing opened a shop at the foot of Montmartre, close to the German church, the house number 22 on the Rue de Provence. Sign picture of Mr Bing reads: Maison de l'Art Nouveau.

Advertising datsibao adds: "House of New Art - a meeting place for all young and passionate talents who are eager to show the world the modern tendencies in art."

Rene Jules Lalique was difficult to call the "young talent". He was already 35 years old, that in the late 19 th century was a very respectable age. But the sign above the entrance to the gallery Germans became part of his life, because then that he began sketching in his notebook sketches in 1876, received in 1900 called "New Art", that is, the Art Nouveau.

"Belle Epoque» (Belle Epoque), officially launched with an international exhibition in Paris May 6, 1889, exposed the artists and a new direction, wanting to break with academic 19 th century and impress the world - a new and unprecedented. First of all "new" artists working with new material: iron, pig iron, steel, glass and ceramics.

After the success at an automobile exhibition "International Decorative Arts and Modern Industry", held in 1925 in Paris, the company has attracted Citroën Rene Lalique to design a series of more than twenty-five, "mascots," or decorations for the radiator cap. They must have been associated with the speed of the car and its power. These ornaments were illuminated from within by the light, which was controlled motor vehicle. Depending on whether the car accelerates or slows down, the light intensity should vary accordingly.

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Typically, the high style meets architecture: the Notre Dame Cathedral - a Gothic style, and, say, the Admiralty in St. Petersburg - for classicism. Because the architecture, drawing in all the other arts, enables extremely accurate understanding of what was once thought about the world of space, the decor, which images possessed minds, in what forms they were cast. And very rarely happens to all the features of the style as a drop of water collected in any one subject - the crest, or glass. Strictly speaking, such a case - one is the objects created by Rene Lalique. Any of its jewelry can become an emblem of the Art Nouveau style, but without the decorative glass is difficult to imagine the interior art deco 20-ies.

A female dragonfly and peacock eye

Today, Lalique the only two persons had two groups of fans and collectors: for some it is the greatest goldsmith and author brooches "Dragonfly", for others - a master of art glass and, accordingly, the author of the vase "The Bacchae." Jeweler's art was in his biography of the first, and that it has brought Lalique success. Glory caught up with him when he was little more than twenty years. And it happened not only because he was a talented artist (how many of them during his life had no hint of success) and a very skillful craftsman, but because he absolutely has coincided with his time. Coincided in all respects - in the form and iconography - and even anticipated some ideas about the very essence of design.

At the base of the Art Nouveau style, which in different countries performed under different names (art nouveau in France and Belgium, Sezession - in Austria, Jugendstil - in Germany), from the outset lay the desire to create a living environment in which everything, from architecture to jewelry boxes, must obey the unified laws of beauty. One of the pillars of the style of Henri Van de Velde, designing your own house in Uccle in 1890, worked for him all the way to dress that his wife was supposed to be in this house. In turn, these laws of beauty were based on a few main ideas. The first - the idea of organic growth. In art, she put it in a fashion to form flora - orchids, irises, ears, and vines with tendrils, sometimes stylized beyond recognition, included in the repertoire of artists and architects. Another idea - the vitality, spontaneity, not subject to reason the beginning of life. In art, this is reflected in the fluid, and seemed redundant forms. This spontaneously developing forms can not obey a rigid geometry, it can set its own rhythm, just like the rhythm set to storm waves. Just look at lalikovskie brooches, tiaras and necklaces, and a feeling of redundancy forms, which often occurs when you look at them, replaced by a guess: it's things that hide the great disaster.

Although jewelry art is not one of those where there are subjects, major and minor characters, but in jewels lalikovskih these characters are, more precisely - the heroine. By Lalique they came from a rich iconographic vocabulary of modern art, and there at the turn of the poetry of Symbolism. First of all this, of course, female figures. Woman Art Nouveau era - a very special creature: mysterious (female sphinx, a woman - an exotic flower or a woman-snake), the irrational (the personification of water or fire element), exalted (Bacchante), bringing death and oblivion (Judith, Salome, siren, or mermaid ). Lalique jewelry can be illustrated by the Encyclopedia of Women's Images Art Nouveau era. Diadem with siren - mermaid tail forks, becoming a wave crests, and at the same time demonstrating the favorite in the Modern bending line called "lash of a whip." Here is the famous Brooch "Dragonfly", where strekozinoe body crowned female bust (tendency to metamorphosis - one of the properties of feminine nature, according to Art Nouveau). If you look at the wings of a dragonfly, you'll see a pattern to them, "peacock eye" with a characteristic combination of emerald green and dark blue. That is, a female dragonfly has borrowed a bit of beauty and a peacock - pet Nouveau generously supplying the years 1880-1910 in the patterns and colors of majolica friezes, screens, wallpaper, upholstery fabrics, bags, vases, combs and, of course, jewelry.

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Cars, trucks, ships


After World War Lalique started producing glass - vases, chamber sculptures, lamps, perfume bottles, figurines for lattices of automotive radiators, glass panels. And more projects interiors. But it already was a different era - cars, fashion on the aircraft, skyscrapers and the elegant modernized version of classic chic, which is called Art Deco. At Deco, whose blossoms were in between the two world wars had their flagships. One of them - a transatlantic liner Normandie, whose interiors have been decorated entirely in the new style 20-ies, and the Pullman car of the first class, inside which develops Rene Lalique with its employees. Go to the Normandie, he also later had a relationship: in 1936, worked on the decor of the floating museum. The shape of its glass figurines, vases, bottles already reflect new tastes - it is not peculiar that the redundancy, which distinguishes it decoration. Their shape and color much more restrained, no peacock medley, no sverhzamyslovatyh patterns. Lalique felt the time and gave him his due.

Now we can say that today's love for the Lalique feeds not only the artistic merit of his own things and their uniqueness, but to a large degree and membership of these same things to the great artistic universe, which is guessed at one glance lalikovskuyu brooch or glass mascot for the radiator Rolls Royce. You look at the pattern of "peacock's eye", decorating the wings of dragonfly, and remember the famous "Peacock Room" by James Whistler, each bend of silver wire stand grating entrances to the Paris Metro by Hector Guimard, a female profile on the mother of pearl - the image of Sarah Bernhardt in the opal-colored dress with puffed sleeves and flowing skirt, make a figure like an exotic flower. His glass 20-30-ies raises the least fragile than itself, the substance - the era of Art Deco, with its love of beauty, perfectly coexist with a sincere admiration of the technological progress.

And yet. Lalique, who began to actively use in jewelry semi-precious stones, pearls, bone, glass and others are not very expensive, but let it needs a combination of colors and textures of materials, was one of those who anticipated the current attitude towards design, which can be expressed as: nothing material, design ideas - everything!

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Life After Life

Rene Lalique died in 1945, leaving his son Mark a thriving enterprise which was engaged in production of decorative and applied arts and interior design. Lalique original things - mostly glass - highly prized today. A couple of years ago a statue "Fantasia" in 1918 bought at Christie's for 800 thousand dollars, but it is an absolute record. Often the price of glass lalikovskoe limited tens of thousands of dollars: in 2005, at the same auction for 72 thousand dollars was sold vase "Whirlwind" mid-20's. As for jewelry, it seems, they are firmly settled in museums and private collections and at auction are rare.

The terms of these original things very small, it expands slightly due to modern replicas, which the company Lalique produces limited batches. Marc Lalique adjusted release of products from crystal models of the father. The company then passed to the granddaughter of Lalique, Marie-Claire, who in 1994 sold it to the French company Pochet. At Pochet it bought Swiss firm Art & Fragrance and French Financiere Saint-Germain. Lalique still produces a replica lalikovskogo glass. But the main products - a trifle, "based on" Rene Lalique: tableware, clocks, lamps and ornaments, as well as perfumes, handbags, belts and scarves. Say that all is not capable of causing, and a small fraction of admiration, which goes to the works of Rene Lalique - to say nothing. This consumer goods. Publicized Brooch "Dragonfly" from the collection Bucolique (blessed memory of the "Dragonfly" turn of the century) can now be purchased from Lalique on the internet for two hundred pounds. That is, it would be possible if it does not bring tears to his anything-not-remarkable. Lalique has been criticized for conservatism, for the lack of fresh ideas, original designs, recalling that the founder of the company was able to produce unprecedented things. That was one thing to clarify: he did what he did to nobody. But what is all somehow expected. And this was a guarantee of its success. But for such a development should be an unmistakable sense of time.

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