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Ernest Boiceau
Description
- Ernest Boiceau
- Grand tapis la Mer, 1929
- Signé EBoiceau dans l'un des angles
- wool
- 376 x 498 cm (148 x 196 in.)
Provenance
Acquis auprès du précédent en 1985
Literature
Condition
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Catalogue Note
Artiste d'origine Suisse, Ernest Boiceau étudie la peinture, l'architecture et le dessin à l'école des Beaux Arts de Paris. Au début des années 1910 il se tourne vers la broderie, la tapisserie et la passementerie, ouvre un atelier travaillant pour le théâtre et la couture et devient un brodeur en vogue. Ses premiers dessins de tapis, meubles et objets datent de 1924-1925. Il dépose une licence pour le Point de Cornely, point de broderie dérivé des recherches de P. Cornely en 1865. La Revue l'Art Vivant en fait l'éloge en 1927, expliquant que cette technique rend la surface du tapis vivant. Boiceau installe une boutique rue Pierre Charon présentant ses créations, transférée par la suite avenue Matignon. Il participe au Salon d'Automne de 1928 et 1929 et décore de nombreuses résidences en France et en Suisse. Il cesse son activité avec la guerre.
Nous remercions la galerie Eric Philippe pour les précisions qu'elle nous a apportées.
According to the order book of the Maison Boiceau, this lot was ordered on the 26 February 1929.
Born in Switzerland, Ernest Boiceau studied at the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris, where in around 1910 he began creating fabrics and embroideries. With the opening of his atelier on the avenue de l'Opera, Paris, he filed a patent in 1925 for the 'point de Cornely', a weaving method derived from a technique perfected by the inventor E. Cornely in 1865. In 1927 L'Art Vivant noted that the result was a carpet with an aspect of life unmatched by any other method of weaving. He opened a shop in rue Pierre Charon and later Avenue Matignon and exhibited at the Salon d'automne in 1928 and 1929, while undertaking the decoration of private residences in France, Switzerland and the United States. Boiceau closed his atelier on the eve of the Second World War.
We would like to thank Galerie Eric Philippe for their help cataloguing this lot.