\u00ab\u00a0La Mort du Cygne\u00a0\u00bb pianos.<\/h2>\n\n\npiano.jpg<\/a><\/h2>\n\n ![\"piano](\"https:\/\/image.invaluable.com\/privatelabel\/tajan\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/09205421\/piano.jpg\" "\\"piano")
<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\nIn Majorelle works, the\u00a0subtle\u00a0play\u00a0of rare woods\u00a0in his marquetry shows\u00a0a purely ornamental role, reinforcing the\u00a0virtuosity\u00a0of\u00a0the artist. Renown\u00a0after the\u00a0Universal Exhibition of 1900, Majorelle presents a remarkable\u00a0and remarked\u00a0piece at the Salon of the National Society of Fine Arts of 1904:\u00a0\u201cLa Mort du Cygne\u201d\u00a0a wooden half-tail piano carved,\u00a0with\u00a0an\u00a0Erard mechanism, including the marquetry is the work of Victor Prouv\u00e9.<\/p>\n
Four\u00a0versions of this piano decorated with \u201cLa Mort du Cygne\u201d marquetry\u00a0are known,\u00a0all\u00a0created by Louis Majorelle in collaboration with Victor Prouv\u00e9.\u00a0Prouv\u00e9 washimself\u00a0known for his compositions of simple\u00a0yet fluid line, rendered in pale\u00a0colours, characteristics which are found in\u00a0the marquetry work on\u00a0the present\u00a0piano.\u00a0Two \u201cLa Mort du Cygne\u201d pianos can be\u00a0found in public collections: One in the collection of the Mus\u00e9e de l\u2019Ecole de Nancy dated 1905 commissionned by the local businessman Eug\u00e8ne Corbin and\u00a0one in the Virginia Fine Arts Museum. The third present example,\u00a0also dated\u00a01903, was commissionned by Charles-Auguste Masson,\u00a0the\u00a0associate\u00a0of Eug\u00e8ne Corbin in Nancy and will be offered into auction on the 16th of May 2019<\/a>.\u00a0The fourth one is currently non-located.<\/p>\nAt the end of the\u00a0XIXth\u00a0century, the swan\u00a0theme\u00a0as widespread in the arts, especially in literature at Baudelaire in the poem\u00a0\u201cThe Swan\u201d\u00a0(in.\u00a0The Flowers of Evil, 1857) and in some musical works such as\u00a0Swan Lake\u00a0(1875 -76) of Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky or\u00a0The Carnival of Animals\u00a0(1886) by Camille de Saint-Saens.\u00a0The swan is also found in other works by the artists of the\u00a0Ecole de Nancy\u00a0thanks to its sinuous curves.\u00a0The scene on the piano could\u00a0also\u00a0be inspired by Richard Wagner’s opera\u00a0Parsifal\u00a0(1882) in which the knight Parsifal shoots a swan, a bird considered\u00a0as\u00a0sacred by knights.<\/p>\n
\u00ab\u00a0water lilies \u00bb furniture.<\/h2>\n
piano.jpg<\/a><\/h2>\n\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\nIn Majorelle works, the\u00a0subtle\u00a0play\u00a0of rare woods\u00a0in his marquetry shows\u00a0a purely ornamental role, reinforcing the\u00a0virtuosity\u00a0of\u00a0the artist. Renown\u00a0after the\u00a0Universal Exhibition of 1900, Majorelle presents a remarkable\u00a0and remarked\u00a0piece at the Salon of the National Society of Fine Arts of 1904:\u00a0\u201cLa Mort du Cygne\u201d\u00a0a wooden half-tail piano carved,\u00a0with\u00a0an\u00a0Erard mechanism, including the marquetry is the work of Victor Prouv\u00e9.<\/p>\n
Four\u00a0versions of this piano decorated with \u201cLa Mort du Cygne\u201d marquetry\u00a0are known,\u00a0all\u00a0created by Louis Majorelle in collaboration with Victor Prouv\u00e9.\u00a0Prouv\u00e9 washimself\u00a0known for his compositions of simple\u00a0yet fluid line, rendered in pale\u00a0colours, characteristics which are found in\u00a0the marquetry work on\u00a0the present\u00a0piano.\u00a0Two \u201cLa Mort du Cygne\u201d pianos can be\u00a0found in public collections: One in the collection of the Mus\u00e9e de l\u2019Ecole de Nancy dated 1905 commissionned by the local businessman Eug\u00e8ne Corbin and\u00a0one in the Virginia Fine Arts Museum. The third present example,\u00a0also dated\u00a01903, was commissionned by Charles-Auguste Masson,\u00a0the\u00a0associate\u00a0of Eug\u00e8ne Corbin in Nancy and will be offered into auction on the 16th of May 2019<\/a>.\u00a0The fourth one is currently non-located.<\/p>\nAt the end of the\u00a0XIXth\u00a0century, the swan\u00a0theme\u00a0as widespread in the arts, especially in literature at Baudelaire in the poem\u00a0\u201cThe Swan\u201d\u00a0(in.\u00a0The Flowers of Evil, 1857) and in some musical works such as\u00a0Swan Lake\u00a0(1875 -76) of Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky or\u00a0The Carnival of Animals\u00a0(1886) by Camille de Saint-Saens.\u00a0The swan is also found in other works by the artists of the\u00a0Ecole de Nancy\u00a0thanks to its sinuous curves.\u00a0The scene on the piano could\u00a0also\u00a0be inspired by Richard Wagner’s opera\u00a0Parsifal\u00a0(1882) in which the knight Parsifal shoots a swan, a bird considered\u00a0as\u00a0sacred by knights.<\/p>\n
\u00ab\u00a0water lilies \u00bb furniture.<\/h2>\n
<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\nIn Majorelle works, the\u00a0subtle\u00a0play\u00a0of rare woods\u00a0in his marquetry shows\u00a0a purely ornamental role, reinforcing the\u00a0virtuosity\u00a0of\u00a0the artist. Renown\u00a0after the\u00a0Universal Exhibition of 1900, Majorelle presents a remarkable\u00a0and remarked\u00a0piece at the Salon of the National Society of Fine Arts of 1904:\u00a0\u201cLa Mort du Cygne\u201d\u00a0a wooden half-tail piano carved,\u00a0with\u00a0an\u00a0Erard mechanism, including the marquetry is the work of Victor Prouv\u00e9.<\/p>\n
Four\u00a0versions of this piano decorated with \u201cLa Mort du Cygne\u201d marquetry\u00a0are known,\u00a0all\u00a0created by Louis Majorelle in collaboration with Victor Prouv\u00e9.\u00a0Prouv\u00e9 washimself\u00a0known for his compositions of simple\u00a0yet fluid line, rendered in pale\u00a0colours, characteristics which are found in\u00a0the marquetry work on\u00a0the present\u00a0piano.\u00a0Two \u201cLa Mort du Cygne\u201d pianos can be\u00a0found in public collections: One in the collection of the Mus\u00e9e de l\u2019Ecole de Nancy dated 1905 commissionned by the local businessman Eug\u00e8ne Corbin and\u00a0one in the Virginia Fine Arts Museum. The third present example,\u00a0also dated\u00a01903, was commissionned by Charles-Auguste Masson,\u00a0the\u00a0associate\u00a0of Eug\u00e8ne Corbin in Nancy and will be offered into auction on the 16th of May 2019<\/a>.\u00a0The fourth one is currently non-located.<\/p>\n At the end of the\u00a0XIXth\u00a0century, the swan\u00a0theme\u00a0as widespread in the arts, especially in literature at Baudelaire in the poem\u00a0\u201cThe Swan\u201d\u00a0(in.\u00a0The Flowers of Evil, 1857) and in some musical works such as\u00a0Swan Lake\u00a0(1875 -76) of Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky or\u00a0The Carnival of Animals\u00a0(1886) by Camille de Saint-Saens.\u00a0The swan is also found in other works by the artists of the\u00a0Ecole de Nancy\u00a0thanks to its sinuous curves.\u00a0The scene on the piano could\u00a0also\u00a0be inspired by Richard Wagner’s opera\u00a0Parsifal\u00a0(1882) in which the knight Parsifal shoots a swan, a bird considered\u00a0as\u00a0sacred by knights.<\/p>\n\u00ab\u00a0water lilies \u00bb furniture.<\/h2>\n
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