The Art of Rene Lalique

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«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»

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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)

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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):

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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.

A. Yakovlev Engraved branch delphinium - RJ Lalique and his works in the Hermitage. - The Soviet museum, 1991, № 1

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

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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

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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.

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It goes also for the European inherit the English by William Morris and John Ruskin, the founders of Arts & Crafts, «Arts and Crafts." In the last decade, 19 th century Arts & Crafts, as well as Art Nouveau conquered city after city and the continent for the continent: Brussels, Nancy, Paris, Vienna, Munich, London, Barcelona, New York. Under different names: Jugendstil in Germany, Palingstil - in Belgium, Tiffany-style - in the U.S.. The new unnamed art in France, has not borrowed from Mr. Siegfried Bing term Art Nouveau, called it "style of lashes, then the style of the end of the century, the" pasta style ", then" modern "(for snobs, Anglophile), then" Metro style "- a direct allusion to the iron lattice, stained glass windows and lights of Paris Metro by Hector Guimard.

But back for a moment in the Maison de l'Art Nouveau Mr. Bing.

In the early twentieth century in his gallery exhibited by Louis Comfort Tiffany, Emile Gale, Auguste Rodin, Fernando Knopf, Toulouse-Lautrec, Edouard Villard and - Rene Lalique. Ustroitelnitsa Rene Lalique exhibition in the Luxembourg Gardens, Yvonne Bryunamer:


Yvonne Bryunamer: He was born in Champagne vineyards. According to some sources, among his relatives were tenants. He loved, like most of his contemporaries, make sketches, sketches. At the time, a lot went for walks, go for a walk. Leduc, for example, sketching, walking with Merimee.

Father Rene Lalique was a Parisian street vendors and was rarely at home. It was a very modest family income. But Rene every summer back in the Champagne. He had an eye naturalist, he loved looking at nature. That is, he literally lived at the grass at the level of insects, constantly sketching.

When his father died, he was 15-16 years old, he was forced to go to work. Friends suggested to his mother:


- You know, he draws wonderfully, he has real talent, and in our time are those who paint decorations, pretty well earned.


Following the sound advice, Renee became a disciple of a jeweler, that is, the man who built the jewels - in their highest quality. This master-jeweler basically did the white decoration, using bright stones and diamonds. The very same carrier structure ornaments completely disappeared for precious stones. That was the meaning of the bracelet or necklace - the maximum detection value of the stone ... ".


Dmitry Savitsky: Two remarks should be done immediately. Artists Art Nouveau, which is closely associated with the Symbolists, brought to the stage not only the nature and the fact that in nature to them or despised it, what to avoid. Bamboo, seaweed, lianas and hence the name "style lashes, grasshoppers, butterflies, owls, scarab beetles, frogs, fish, dragonflies, swans, eagles, peacocks, snakes - very many snakes. This is the ras des insectes, as said Yvonne Bryunamer, nature at the level of insects.

Second - it is white. In the second half of his career, René Lalique refused enamel, gold, precious stones, even the moon rock, and began working with opal, and then cut the glass. And not in the crystal, and semi-crystal.


 Career Rene Lalique developed rapidly. His master, Louis Ocqueoc was fashionable Parisian jeweler who created ornaments in the neo-Rococo. Two years of study allowed Lalique purchase significant experience in working with different materials. But the master of his style does not suit. A revolution in design in that era was not in Paris but in London, and Renee went to London courses ornamentalistiki Saydenhemovskogo college. Of course, he was faced with the movement of Arts & Crafts, which opened his eyes to new possibilities in the design world. Even more significant event was the first retrospective exhibition of Japanese art in 1883 at the École des Beaux-Arts and Exhibition (ibid.) Japanese prints in 1890.

Until 1889, Rene Lalique did not sign their work, which exhibited a well-known jewelers in the Place Vendome: the Wever and Boucheron. But in 1889 he opened his own studio, and a year later he employs over 30 craftsmen. Beginning in 1894, he regularly exhibited at the Salon of French artists, and in 1900 - at the Paris International Fair. By 1904 his fame was so great that he bought jewelry not only in Paris and Berlin, but in New York and St. Petersburg. He works with enamel, moonstone, bone, shell, pearl, ivory and crystal. His fans and a live model is Sarah Bernhardt. This is for her, he creates the famous "collars" of pearl, jewelry, ceramics or metal. She orders him to necklaces, bracelets, brooches and combs for each individual performance. Lalique even invents for her hairstyle.

Sarah Bernhardt introduces Rene Lalique with Robert de Montesquiou, who introduced Lalique in terms of symbolism, and along with aristocrats suburb of Saint-Germain.

Not all be solved are often bulky suspension Rene Lalique, the whole bunch of snakes or giant medallions of transparent enamel, bordered in gold. Motives of stone carving - the female heads and figures, clear, varying depending on the lighting.

But Rene Lalique jewelry devoted only a portion of his career. In cooperation with perfumer Francois Coty, he begins to create a series of bottles and boxes, to join Roger Kochi-e-Galle, Worth and d'Orsay. He cuts the glass figurines for car radiators era, he is increasingly working with glass, creates vases, chandeliers, stained glass, and eventually built his own house, a hotel and a boutique on the waterfront next to the Cours La Reine.

Works of Rene Lalique start collecting, and the largest collector becomes his close friend Calouste Gyulbenkyan ...

At the Paris exhibition in the Luxembourg museum displays 400 works by Rene Lalique: sketches, jewelry, jewelry, sculpture, painting and photography, covering the period from 1890 and 1912. The exhibition will run until the end of July.

http://www.svobodanews.ru/content/Tr...pt/392423.html

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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.