Vase aux danseurs (Vase with dancers)

Vase aux danseurs (Vase with dancers)

Marcelle Wahl
Around 1930
Works
Art Deco Glassware

Marcelle Wahl enamels glassware by painting abstract or stylized patterns in bright, vibrant colors.

Marcelle Wahl

Marcelle Wahl (Paris 1888 - Paris 1974)

Vase with dancers

Around 1930

Inscr. M. WAHL

H. 20,2 ; D. 12 cm

Inv. MV 2014.1.3. Don Barlach Heuer

 

Known both as a doctor of medicine and the author of books on art and the brain order published in the 1950s and 1960s, Marcelle Wahl is much less known for her painting and enamels on glass, produced mainly before the Second World War. However, throughout the 1920s, she exhibited enameled glasswork at the Salon des Artistes Décorateurs and the Salon d’Automne “which were not without interest,” as noted in issue 22 of Echos des Industries d’Art in May 1927. Influenced by Expressionism, these glassworks were generally decorated with abstract or stylized motifs in bright, vibrant colors, applied in powerful strokes. Part of the former Marcilhac collection, this blue and black enamelled vase, suggesting the stylised bodies of dancers, was exhibited and published many times before being bought in 2014 by the glass art enthusiast, Barlach Heuer, who offered it that same year to the Conches glass museum.

EXHIBITIONS

1986 - Art déco 1920-1930. Fondation Septentrion, Marcq-en-Baroeul (April 29 - July 23).

1990 - L'exposition de la verrerie Art Déco. Matsuya Ginza, Tokyo (April 25 - May 7) ; Umeda Hankyu, Osaka (September 25 - October 3).

2014 - Félix Marcilhac - Collection privée. Sotheby's, Paris (March 11 and 12).

2014 - Nouvelles vitrines de verreries de la première moitié du XXe siècle. Musée du verre, Conches (June 14 juin - November 30).

2016 - Corps à corps. Musée du verre, Conches (March 5 - November 27).

PUBLICATIONS

PROUVOST Albert, PROUVOST Anne, Art déco 1920-1930. Ed. Fondation Septentrion, Marcq-en-Baroeul, 1986. p. 110, n°155.

Félix Marcilhac - Collection privée. Catalogue de vente publique Sotheby's, Paris, 2014 (lot n° 166).

LOUET Eric, Corps à corps. Ed. Musée du verre, Conches, 2016. p. 22.