EMILE GALLÉ (1846-1904)

Emile Galle chair les ombelles (1902 France)

European Dimensions

96.00 cm high

UK/USA Converted Dimensions

37.80 inches high

Item Provenance & History

Grandson Emile Galle.

Item Exhibition History

Stoel in notenhout met bereklauw patroon, Frankrijk 1902 hoogte 95 cm
maker Emile Galle 1846-1904
provenance kleinzoon Emile Galle.
Staat afgebeeld op een foto van het interieur van Galle's huis "La Garenne" te Nancy.
Gepresenteerd op de expositie van de l'Ecole de Nancy te Parijs in 1903.
Geëxposeerd op de retrospective van Galle teParijs in het musee du Luxembourg, 1985-1986.
lit.: afgebeeld op blz 280 van de cataloog Galle, Paris , musee du Luxembourg 1985-1986

Current Item Condition

good

Item Description / Dealer Expertise

Chair aux ombelliferes
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Lit. page 98 Emile Galle by Philippe Garner
This chair once belonged to Emile Galle himself.
One of the last designs made by Emile Galle before he died in 1904.
The main theme is the great flower ombelliferes from the Kaukasus. The garden of the Ecole de Nancy has several of these flowers as a hommage to Galle. They are enormous . More then two meter high.
The back of the chair is the flower and the stem of the flower goes to the ground to make the two behind legs.
The chair is not only a chair, but mostly a piece of art. It was made in 1902, one of the last art nouveau pieces to be made. Not mass produced, only produced for Emile Galle himself and the Hannon house. This chair has been in several exhibitions. The last one was in the Musee du Luxembourg in Paris 1985-1986. It has always been the property of the Galle family, the last one was the grandson of Emile Galle, Jean Bourgogne. Gallery Tiny Esveld bought the chair from this inheritance. Mrs Esveld thinks this is the first time a chair like this one has been on the market. It is great opportunity that it is for sale. All the other chairs are in the musea, like the Ecole de Nancy, Musee d’Orsay or the museum of decorative arts in Paris.
The upholstery has been changed by the famous Dick Oostendorp in Montfoort. He works for the Dutch queen and delivers first class work. He renewed the cover and the inside of the chair in the same way Galle did in 1900. The chair is fit now for the next hundred years.

De stoel met de bereklauw.
De stoel met het bereklauw patroon is een van de laatste geniale ontwerpen van Galle, voordat hij sterft in 1904. Het hoofd thema is de grote bereklauw uit de Kaukasus. Nog altijd te zien in de tuin van de l’ecole de Nancy. Het scherm dient als rugleuning en is gekanteld om steun te geven. De rug is langs beide zijden gesculpteerd en rondgezet. De stengel van de bloem is de versterking van de rug tot op de grond. De stoel is niet alleen een stoel , maar ook een kunstvoorwerp. De stoel die Galerie Esveld te koop aanbied, heeft op verschillende tentoonstellingen gestaan, o.a. de retrospective over Emile Galle in het musee de Luxembourg in Parijs in 1985-1986. Deze stoel is in tientallen boeken afgebeeld. De eerste afbeelding die bekend is van deze stoel is een foto van het interieur van het huis van Galle, La Garenne te Nancy in 1902 als zijn dochter Therese trouwt met Rene Bourgogne. Jean Bourgogne is hun enige zoon en heeft in 1936 de verdrietige taak om de fabriek van zijn grootvader te sluiten. Gelukkig heeft hij enkele persoonlijke bezittingen van zijn grootvader zelf gehouden, waaronder deze unieke stoel.
De stoel is een historisch dokument van onschatbare waarde. Esveld is lyrisch dat zij deze stoel nu tijdelijk in haar bezit heeft. Zij hoopt dat de stoel naar een museum gaat, zodat veel mensen van het genie van Galle kunnen genieten.
De bekleding van de stoel is vernieuwd door de beroemde Dick Oostendorp uit Montfoort, die ook voor de koningin werkt. Pure vakmanschap. Het leer en de binnenkant is zoveel mogelijk hetzelfde gebleven als in de tijd van Galle. De stoel is nu geschikt om de volgende honderd jaar te doorstaan.

GALLÉ

Type	Artist/Maker
Country of origin	France
Born	1846
Died	1904

Emile Galle was born in France in 1846 and his training included art, botany, and chemistry, three subjects which he combined in his brilliant designs for glass and other mediums (pottery, furniture, jewelry). His father, Charles Galle, owned a glass and ceramics factory in Nancy. After much travelling and training, fighting in the war between France and Prussia, working for the glass company "Burgun, Schverer et Cie" in Meisenthal, Galle settled back in Nancy and set up his own glass studio in 1873 where he initially made classical forms of glass with classical, intricate, enamelled designs.
Moving on from these designs to botanical themes, again in enamelled glass, it was not until the 1878 International Exhibition in Paris, when Galle saw the work of his contemporaries such as John Northwood and Joseph Locke from England (cameo glass) and Eugene Rousseau (pate de verre) that he developed new and adventurous designs for his glass. Eleven years later at the Paris International Exhibition (1889) Galle exhibited his own new types of glass, including carved cameo work and many new colours. His achievements earned him recognition in the French Legion of Honour.
Even in those early years, Galle made two distinct qualities of glass. On the one hand his "poems in glass", masterpieces that took hours and hours of patient work to make. And on the other hand, his high quality art glass designed to be less expensive to make but still an object of beauty, good enough to carry his signature. This was later to develop into what is today called "industrial Galle".
In 1894 Galle built a massive new glassworks in Nancy, and ended his dependence on the Burgun, Schverer glassworks for producing some of his glass. He employed a team of craftsmen-designers, who worked to the edict that all Galle designs should be true to nature. Galle himself modified and approved these designs before they were made by teams of craftsmen in his Cristallerie D'Emile Galle.
Throughout the 1890's Galle won awards at international exhibitions and recognition through commissions and popular demand for his work. His techniques and style were copied by many other glassmakers who advertised their glass as "Galle style". He was a major influence on the Art Nouveau movement.
Galle died in 1904, whilst directing the work on new designs from his bed. After his death Mme Galle, his widow, continued to run the glassworks and to make Galle glass until the outbreak of war in 1914, marking all the glass sold by the works after his death with a star after the name Galle.
Emile Galle's son in law, Paul Perdrizet, re-opened the Galle glassworks after the war. With new workers and new designs, they focussed on two and three layer cameo glass with landscape and floral designs, made by acid-etching. These were popular for some years, but the company did not keep pace with the changes in style in the late twenties, and closed down in 1936.

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