Important Design
Important Design
Property from the Private Collection of Lloyd and Barbara Macklowe
GUSTAV GURSCHNER | TWO-LIGHT FIGURAL CANDLESTICK
Auction Closed
December 12, 09:10 PM GMT
Estimate
8,000 - 12,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Property from the Private Collection of Lloyd and Barbara Macklowe
GUSTAV GURSCHNER
TWO-LIGHT FIGURAL CANDLESTICK
circa 1900
cold-painted and patinated bronze
impressed GURSCHNER/DEPOSE
16¼ in. (41.2 cm) high
Rudi Schmutz, Vienna
Acquired from the above by the present owner, circa 1980s
Alastair Duncan, Art Nouveau Sculpture, New York, 1978, p. 49
Wolf Uecker, Art Nouveau and Art Deco Lamps and Candlesticks, New York, 1986, p. 15
Yvonne Brunhammer and Suzanne Tise, French Decorative Art, the Société des Artistes Décorateurs 1900-1942, Paris, 1990, p. 8 (for the model depicted in the Manuel Orazi poster)
The present model is featured in Manuel Orazi's 1900 poster for La Maison Moderne.