Fireplace Surround, circa 1900

Details

HECTOR GUIMARD (1867-1942)
Fireplace Surround, circa 1900
executed by the Fonderie Durenne, Sommevoire, France
patinated cast iron, copper
39 3/8 in. (100 cm.) high, 48 3/4 in. (124 cm.) wide, 13 1/8 in. (33.5 cm.) deep

Provenance

Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, Monaco, 11 December 1995, lot 92.
Acquired by Ann and Gordon Getty from the above.

Literature

G. d’Hostingue, L’Art dans l’habitation moderne. Le Castel Béranger. Œuvre de Hector Guimard., Paris, 1898, pl. 46.
Guimard, exh. cat., Musée d’Orsay, Paris, 1992, pp. 184, no. 15.
G. Vigne, Hector Guimard: Architect Designer: 1867-1942, New York, 2003, p. 93 (for a related example).

Special Notice

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Lot Essay

This model appears in the dining rooms of one of Guimard's most celebrated commissions, the Castel Béranger in Paris, completed in 1898. The Musée du Petit Palais, Musée des Beaux-arts de la Ville de Paris has another example of this model in its permanent collection (inv. no. PPO3673). A related example is depicted in a postcard of Guimard in his workroom at Castel Béranger on display at the Cooper Hewitt Museum, New York (inv. no. 1958-84-1) from November 18, 2022 to May 21, 2023 for their exhibition Hector Guimard: How Paris Got Its Curves.

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