Example of a Shopping Day

Designed by Luigi Caccia Dominioni, Italian
€12,000

19th century, Louis XVI style
Oak wood and leather
€1,700

18th century
€1,400

Designed by George Mulhauser, American
€4,800

18th century
Walnut wood, with secret drawer
€4,000

Attributed to Linke (1855-1946)
Linke's greatest successes were achieved during the years after 1900 and up to the beginning of World War I. He opened a showroom in the fashionable Place Vendôme and business flourished until World War II, although the popularity of the ancien régime styles had already started to decline. Linke died at the venerable age of 91. A newly released book about the life and work of François Linke has recently been published by Christopher Payne called "François Linke 1855-1946: The Belle Epoque of French Furniture." This 527 page hardcover book is a must for every furniture collector.
€36,000

20th Century Bar by Italian designer Aldo Tura
L 30”
D 15”
H 51.5"
€5,800

Oil on Canvas, signed lower right and framed
Henri Cauchois (1850-1901) French School
Awards:1898: 1st Class Medal, 1900: Bronze Medal, 1904: 2nd Class Medal
Collections: Louviers, Rouen, Perpignan
€3,100

A promising show of youthful talent encouraged the young Cauchois to leave his native Rouen to study at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris, becoming a pupil first of Ferdinand Duboc. His subsequent master was the distinguished painter Alexandre Cabannel (1824-1889), who was among the most highly regarded artists of fashionable mid-19th Century Paris. Cauchois, as a pupil, would have assisted his master in working on great decorative panels for Paris’s most fashionable noble houses, as well as the palace of Emperor Napoleon III, for whom he was Court painter, and the Empress Eugénie.

From Cabannel, Cauchois learned a sense of scale and handling work in the grand manner never presented any fears for him. Indeed, he excelled at painting large decorative canvases, usually depicting Nature in all her glory. He made still life his speciality, using fruit, vegetables, game, gardens; sometimes clocks, vases and other artefacts, and set occasionally within a landscape. The vast majority of his pictures, however, are floral compositions, with roses, chrysanthemums, peonies, larkspur, hollyhocks and all manner of wild flowers amassing into a strong statement of fresh, lively colour.

His first painting to be accepted for exhibition was at the Salon of 1874 and thereafter he exhibited his work widely. Elected to membership of the Société des Artistes Français in 1890, his work was of prize medal-winning calibre. In 1898 he won a third, in 1900 he won a bronze medal, and with one of his exhibits in 1904, he won a second prize medal. It was during these years of success that his decorative flower painting reached its peak. One of his best known works was done ‘in situ’ in a Paris école: a magnificent series of panels depicting the flowers of all the seasons.

Today his work is very well regarded, in particular the still life subjects, which surpass a simple flower arrangement in a vase, to become a pleasing and flowing composition with a profusion of flowers, set against nature which produced them. His paintings can be seen in the museums of Louviers, Perpignan, Aux Halles and Rouen, as well as in the school of the VIIe arondissement in Paris, where the artist once executed an enchanting series of paintings portraying floral arrangements varying according to the seasons.

Museums in France: Louviers; Aux Halles; Gallerie Roussel; Perpignan; Rouen
Exhibitions: Paris Salon, Saint-Etienne Salon, Dijon Salon, Daniel Grossman-gallery exhibition
Books: Dictionnaire des Petits Maitres de la Peinture 1820-1920 by Gerald Schurr & Pierre Cabanne, pg. 240-241, Tome I, A a H, Benezit, Dictionnaire des Peintres Schurr, Hardouin-Fugier, Thieme & Becker

Rare Opalescent Mermaid Plate
By Lalique (signed)
€7,500

18th century
Oak wood
€15,000

€650 x 3 = €1,950

Beginning of 20th century
Jacob Delafon factory
L 8'
H 55"
D 28"
€5,000

Designed by Alain Richard, French
€18,000

Designed by Danish designer Arne Vodder
€3,800

19th century
Attributed to Diehl, born 1840 of German origin. Like many "French" cabinetmakers of the eighteenth century, Charles-Guillaume Diehl settled in Paris in 1840 and developed a flourishing trade in cabinet making and high-end goods.
€14,000

White Butcher's Block -- "billot" in French
€2,500

Designed by Pierre Gauriche, French
€18,000

Pair of Spanish Armchairs
Designed by Danish designer Borge Mogensen
€4,900

Bull Statue
Original Edition, Numbered 12/15 by Kurt Larsen
Royal Copenhagen
Sandstone
€2,500

Jacques Emile Blanche
February 1861 (Paris) - September 1942 (Offranville)
French School
"Fields Flowers"
35” x 40”
Framed and signed lower right
€ 35,000

Jacques-Émile Blanche was a French painter born in Paris. He enjoyed an excellent cosmopolitan education, being brought up at Passy in a house once belonging to the Princesse de Lamballe, which still retained the atmosphere of 18th century elegance and refinement and influenced his taste and work. Although he received some instruction in painting from Henri Gervex, he may be regarded as self-taught. He acquired a great reputation as a portrait painter; his art is derived from French and English sources, refined, sometimes super-elegant, but full of character. Among his chief works are his portraits of his father, of Marcel Proust, of the poet Pierre Louÿs, the Thaulow family, Aubrey Beardsley and Yvette Guilbert.

Exhibitions in Europe: 1997 Musee Beaux Art, Rouen, touring to Palazzo Martinengo, Brescia, Italy, 1943 Musée de l’Orangerie, Paris, 1923 II Biennale romana, 1890 Paris Salon, 1890 Salon de la Societé Nationale des Beaux Arts, Paris

Museums
Bruxelles, Dieppe (Musée des Beaux-Arts)
France: Louvre Museum, Orsay Museum)
Paintings: La Princesse Jean de Broglie, née Daisie Decazes, circa 1914, Marcel Proust (1871-1922), écrivain française, circa 1892)
Carnavalet Museum, Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville; and the cities Rouen, Dijon and Lyon)
United Kingdom: London (Tate Gallery)

Books
2004 M. Wolpert & J. Winter, Modern Figurative Paintings, The Paris Connection, Atglen, A Schiffer Book
2001 Au temps de Marcel Proust, La collection François-Gérarl Selingmann au musée Carnavalet, Paris Musées
1999 Dictionnaire de Peintres à Montmartre, Parigi, Editions André Roussard
1999 J. S. Klein, La Normandie, berceau de l’Impressionnisme
1820-1900, Rennes, Editions Ouest-France
1997 Jacques-Emile Blache, peintre (1861-1942), Parigi, Editions de la Réunion des musées nationaux
1988 F. Lespinasse, La Normandie vue par les peintres, Losanna, Edita
1923 Seconda Biennale romana, Mostra internazionale di belle arti Roma, MCMXXIII, Roma, Casa Editrice d’Arte Enzo Pinci

19th century
L 61.5”
D 16”
H 35.5”
€2,500

€6,000

Eight water colors of Horses and Polo
by Cyril Reguerre, French artist born 1970
€4,640

18th century
€4,500

18th century
Wood
size: 54in x 24in x 40in
€2,400

19th century
Wood, with two tablets and a top leather
size: 51in x 27in x 30in
€2,500

19th Century, from Jura
Wood
€3,000

Circa 1920
Aluminum
€1,600

Circa 1940
Leather
€1,500

Beautiful and rare plant stand, circa 1880-1885
Signed by the French sculptor Henri Gourgouillon (1858-1902)
It is probably a special order from a wealthy family because there is no work of the artist on the market for the last 30 years.
The French sculptor Henri Gourgouillon was born in January 16, 1858. He died in Clermont-Ferrand March 3, 1902. When he was 13 years old, he received teaching art in the workshop of the famous sculptor Henry Monbur Clermont. In 1884, He became professor of drawing and modeling at the school of Architecture of Volvic and the school of arts and business in Clermont-Ferrand. He was also member of the French artists and exhibited some plaster, marble and stone piece of art every year at the famous fair "Salon des Artistes Francais". Between 1891 and 1894, He was in charge of the facade of the Opera of Clermont-Ferrand strongly inspired by the Opera Garnier, the architect was Jean Teillard. He did also the statue of Pope Urban II in Clermont-Ferrand (1898), the sculpture of the Spirit of Liberty in Riom, the monument of the War of 1870 and the decoration of the impressive staircase in the court Palace of this city.
Width: 29.9"
Height: 26.8"
Depth: 18.1"
€14,800