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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):