François Rupert Carabin

baguier en poirier sculpté

Alain Finard et Gérard Wahl-Boyer, Marché Paul Bert, Saint-Ouen
Acquis auprès des précédents en 1975

Paris, Société Nationale des Beaux Arts, 1893, n. 262
Nihombashi-Tokyo, Mitsukoshi, Art Nouveau 1900 en France, 11-31 août 1981
Osaka, Mitsukoshi, Art Nouveau 1900 en France, 8-20 septembre 1981
Sapporo, Musée d'Art Moderne Hokkaido Shimbun et Nihon Keizai Shimbun, Art Nouveau 1900 en France, 26 septembre-25 octobre 1981
Kurashiki, Mitsukoshi, Art Nouveau 1900 en France, 10-22 novembre 1981

Philippe Jullian, The Collectors : Felix Marcilhac in Paris, Architectural Digest, juillet-août 1977, reproduit p. 58
Philippe Jullian, I collezionisti : Felix Marcilhac a Parigi, Architectural Digest Italie, mars 1982, reproduit p. 104
Musée d'Art Moderne de Hokkaido, Le Nihon Keizai Shimbun, Art Nouveau 1900 en France, catalogue d'exposition, Tokyo, Osaka, Sapporo et Kurashiki, 1981, reproduit n. 75

Tres bon état général Un restoration sur la pointe de l'aile gauche d'eniron 1 x 0.5 cm presque invisible. Trace de salissure et quelques petits enfoncements. Quelques rayures à la base. L'ensemble d'usage. Please note that this work is not a sculpture, but rather a “baguier en poirier sculpté” (a ring holder), as described in the updated online catalogue. This work was exhibited at the Société Nationale des Beaux Arts in 1893 and was identified as “baguier en poirier sculpté”. Overall in very good condition. Some occasional scattered surface scratches and abrasions consistent with gentle handling. With surface soiling to the recessed contours of the design. With a very small area of restoration to the end terminal of the figure’s proper left wing measuring approximately I cm in length, only visible on close inspection. The underside of the base with two adjacent old drilled holes, 1/8 and ¼ inch in diameter and with remnants of two old paper labels. A very sensitively and intimately scaled work by the artist.
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