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  Guy de Rougemont Puzzle Sculpture c. 1970

  GUY DE ROUGEMONT (b. 1935) Paris, France

  “Puzzle” sculpture c. 1970

  Lacquered PVC in a rounded movable puzzle form with interlocking pieces.

  H: 24 1/2″ x L: 26″ x D: 11″ (closed)

  H: 24 1/2″ x W: 26″ x D: 11″

  Price: $24,000

  Guy de Rougemont is a French painter and sculptor and is famous for his use of vibrant geometric motifs. His works are a perfect blend of pop art and minimalism. In 1990, the Musée des Arts Décoratifs in Paris (Museum of Decorative Arts) presented an important retrospective about this major contemporary French artist, member of the prestigious French Académie des Beaux-Arts. ROUGEMONT, Espaces publics et Arts décoratifs, 1965-1990, Musée des Arts décoratifs, Paris, 5/22/1990 – 08/19/1990

   

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  Maurice Bouval French Art Nouveau Nymph Silvered Bronze Candleholder c. 1900

  MAURICE BOUVAL  (born  Toulouse, died 1920)  France

  M. COLIN  France

  “Nymph Embracing a Blossom” candle holder  c.1900

  Silvered cast bronze in the form of a nymph on a leaf embracing a blossom

  Marks: M. Bouval (script signature) and COLIN, (Foundry) written above

  For other examples of Bouval’s work see: The Paris Salons 1895-1914, Vol. V: Objets d’Art & Metalware, Alastair Duncan (Woodbridge, Suffolk: Antique Collectors’ Club, 1999), p. 127; Ecole to Deco, Small Sculptures from a Private Collection, Stephen C. McGough ed. (Oberlin, Ohio: Allen Memorial Art Museum, 1979) pp. 33-4; Art Nouveau Sculpture, Alastair Duncan (New York: Rizzoli, 1978) pp. 30-1.

  H: 3″ x W: 6 1/2″ x D: 4 3/4″

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  Aztec AD 1325-1475 Important stone carved sculpture of a coiled serpent

  AZTEC AD 1325-1475 Mexico.

  Important stone carved sculpture of a coiled serpent, AD 1325-1475 Mexico.

  ***Two scientific authentication reports are available with this sculpture.

  H: 10″ x D: 8″

  The serpent played a very important role in Aztec religion and was represented in a variety of forms. The majority of the serpents represented in Aztec sculpture are rattlesnakes.

  Mexican mythology indicates the snake is a symbol of veneration, worship and honor.  Often a symbol of great power, resurrection and rebirth, the snake continues to be a powerful emblem of renewal and transition.
  Further, the snake is recognized as a symbol of humanity as a whole.  Interestingly, the Mexican perspective provides hope for mankind to aspire to great heights as it correlates the shedding of the serpent’s skin to man’s ability to change his own circumstances and overcome adversity.

  The Aztecs build an impressive empire in the valley of Mexico. This thriving area, known as Tenochitlan, was the cultural, religious and trading center of Mesoamerica. Aztecs were the Native American people who dominated northern Mexico at the time of the Spanish conquest led by Hernan Cortez in the early 16th century. According to their own legends, they originated from a place called Aztlan, somewhere in north or northwest Mexico. At that time the Aztecs (who referred to themselves as the Mexica, or Tenochca) were a small, nomadic, Nahuatl-speaking aggregation of tribal peoples living on the margins of civilized Mesoamerica. Sometime in the 12th century they embarked on a period of wandering and in the 13th century settled in the central basin of México. Continually dislodged by the small city-states that fought one another in shifting alliances, the Aztecs finally found refuge on small islands in Lake Texcoco where, in 1325, they founded the town of Tenochtitlan (modern-day Mexico City). The term Aztec, originally associated with the migrant Mexica, is today a collective term, applied to all the peoples linked by trade, custom, religion, and language to these founders. Warriors and pragmatic builders, the Aztecs created an empire during the 15th century that was surpassed in size in the Americas only by that of the Incas in Peru. As early texts and modern archaeology continue to reveal, beyond their conquests and many of their religious practices, the Aztecs had many positive achievements: the formation of a highly specialized and stratified society and an imperial administration, the expansion of a trading network as well as a tribute system, the development and maintenance of a sophisticated agricultural economy (which was carefully adjusted to the land) and the cultivation of an intellectual and religious outlook that held society to be an integral part of the cosmos.

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  Alfred Meyer-Bernburg, Bacchus, Oil on board, 1924

  ALFRED MEYER-BERNBURG (1872-?) Berlin & Munich, Germany

  Bacchus 1924

  Oil on board

  Signed: Alfred Meyer-Bernburg MCNN 1924 (lower right on the canvas)

  Image: H: 16” x W: 11”
  Framed: H: 23 1/4” x W: 18 3/8”

  Price: $39,000

  Alfred Meyer-Bernburg was born in Bernburg, Germany on July 27th, 1872. He studied at the Akademie in Berlin from 1891-92 and later at the Akademie der Bildenden Kuenste in Munich from 1897-1904. Meyer-Bernburg was a member of the Münchner Künstlergruppe (MKG).