r/ArtNouveau

Sorry for the repost, but here are the pictures of her dancing in the light. Inspired by La Danseuse by François Raoul Larche, signed with that name, but doesn't match the original pose. Shame, but what a beauty still.

Having said that, my Müller Frères table lamp may be less impressive, but it gives an awesome light to the room that reaches a painting near the foot of my bed. So, the Müller Frères table light won that spot, and La Danseuse will go either in my study or my living room.

Btw, I spotted an original of La Danseuse going for sale in a little more than month from now.

Jessie Marion King (1875-1949) was a Scottish illustrator. Born into a strict family who disproved of her art as a child, she found solace in the family houskeeper, who become her second mother. She studied at the Glasgow School of Art (1892–1899). She is known for her illustrated children's books. She frequently depicted ethereal "wan haloed knights" and pale ladies draped in stars, influenced by her lifelong belief in fairies. 
She also designed bookplates, jewellery and fabric, and painted pottery. Jessie was one of the artists known as the Glasgow Girls. She was described in 1927 in the Aberdeen Press and Journal as "the pioneer of batik in Great Britain".

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It's a reproduction of a lamp by Raoul Larche made for the Paris Universal Fair, can't remember which one, but it was in the late 1800s. It represents a famous American dancer called Loïe Fuller.

These murals are about 20m tall!

A reproduction of Peter Behrens' Flying Lady just sold for £100 plus auctioneers' fees and shipping. Only one bidder... me. It's repaired, but still. Come on! New reproductions sell on Etsy for over 30 times that! The original was from 1902. I can't wait to be the proud owner of one of them in a few weeks.

Commissioned by engineer Miksa Moskovits, the palace was designed by architect Kálmán Rimanóczy Jr. and built between 1904 and 1905.

Secessionist Style: The exterior features heavily curved lines, ironwork, and detailed stucco reliefs of floral and vegetal motifs.

Layout Design: The building is structured with a basement for storage, a high ground floor meant for commercial shops, a partial mezzanine, and two upper floors designated for residential apartments.

Status: Fully restored to its former historic glory and classified as an official historical monument.

Tourist Value: You can view its stunning facade during architectural walking tours. You can book an organized city tour through platforms like GetYourGuide

Mary Morris, known as May Morris, was an English artist. She was born in 1862 to an embroiderer Jane Burden-Morris and an artist William Morris. She learned embroidery from her mother and aunt and later studied at National Art Training School. There she specialized in textiles and embroidery, notably Opus Anglicanum, a form of fine, rich needlework that developed in medieval England, used primarily for church vestments.

Starting at age 23, she ran the embroidery department of Morris & Co., defining its visual style for decades. She took this job directly from her mother, who led the department herself for over twenty years. May created many embroidery designs for the company. On some embroidery designs she collaborated with her mother.

She also worked as an embroidery teacher at the LCC Central School of Art and other art schools and also wrote a book about needlework for her students, Decorative Needlework, which is still referenced today. Around the turn of 20th century she started to design jewelry too. Examples of her jewellery are at Victoria and Albert Museum and Amgueddfa Cymru – Museum Wales.

During the World War I, she helped with fieldwork in Kelmscott, where she lived, and ran a soup kitchen in the village.  She died in 1932 in Kelmscott.

Maria Yakunchikova (1870-1902) was a Russian artist, graphic designer and embroiderer. She was born in 1870 in wealthy industrialist family, who were patrons of music. In her childhood, every Wednesday there was a concert in her family home by professional musicians, students of the Moscow conservatory and her mother, a skilled pianist and patron of musicians. However Maria, although she had what it took to be a pianist, stopped taking piano lessons because of a malady with her hand, devoting her life to visual art instead.

From childhood, she had studied drawing and painting under the mentorship of professional artists, and attending drawing evenings at the house of her half-sister Natalia Yakunchikova-Polenova, an artist and writer. Later she trained at the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture, and then at the Académie Julian in Paris and, later still, at the printmaker Eugène Delâtre’s workshop, where she mastered the technique of colour etching.

In her art, she combined her experience of the Moscow school of painting and the achievements of contemporary European art, becoming one of the pioneers of Symbolism and Art Nouveau in Russia. She produced paintings, watercolours, designed book and magazine covers, created sketches for hand appliqués, and made toys and clay pottery. She also created painted panels using a technique of her own invention based on pyrography. She was inspired to plein air painting by Russian painter Elena Polenova. Her creative ambitions resonated with both Russian and European painters. She blended traditional Russian folk craft with European fin-de-siècle aesthetics. She also painted and designed tapisseries. She is famous for her covers for magazine Mir iskusstva (World of Art), a magazine which played a central part of the development of the Russian modernism movement.

She died in 1902 of acute tuberculosis which worsened after the birth of her second child eight months before. Her elder son latter become an architect, and had a daughter, Denise Weber (1929-1992), who become a watercolorist and illustrated books on zoology.

At a local historical society home.

Just wanted to share my humble collection with the group of my antique Art Nouveau jewlery pieces. Most have handmade c-clasps, some are signed, I've been collecting since 2022. I also included two Art Nouveau postcards I had tucked away. I have some antique Art Nouveau lithos from Les affiches too, some have the embossed marking while other were taken from poster books.

I picked up this piece from a local estate sale. I know enough about embroidery to know it is antique, likely during the art nouveau period, but not enough to know the origin or the artist.

It appears to be fine silk thread on a thin silk fabric, and the gold areas have a metallic sheen.

Any thoughts?