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Country of origin: France
Medium: Oils on three separate canvases
Signed: Signed lower left & dated 1887
Dated: 1887
Size: 48.00" x 68.00" (121.9cm x 172.7cm)
Provenance:
This work is included in the catalgue raisonne of the painters work ‘’L’oeuvre plurielle de Clement Mere'' by Anne-Claire Struillou
Private Paris collection
c. 1910
Oil on panel
£28,000.00
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Appareilleurs
by Maximilien Luce
1955
Oil on original canvas
£16,500.00
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Salon des arts menagers – 1955
by Jacques Martin-Ferrieres
1881
Oil on canvas
£79,500.00
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Le peintre en plein air
by Charles Theophile Angrand
1924
Oil on paper laid on panel
£5,950.00
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Dimanche
by Paul Elie Gernez
1932
Oil on board
£6,500.00
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Evening in Paris
by Louis Hayet
c. 1900
Oil on panel
£2,550.00
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Pierrot aux bonnet noir
by Armand Francois Henrion
1918
Oil on original canvas
£51,000.00
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Portrait of a Girl
by Alfredo Guttero
1915
Oil on panel
£2,650.00
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The Great War – Soldier & horse on a road
by Andre Devambez
1915
Oil on panel
£2,650.00
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Le Café de la Place Blanche
by Elie Anatole Pavil
1903
Oil on board laid on canvas
£28,000.00
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Le Manege
by Nikolai Aleksandrovich Tarkhoff
c. 1930
Oil on board
£4,950.00
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Nu dans les nuages
by Albert BraÏtou-Sala
c. 1975
Oil on canvas
£8,950.00
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Jeune bretonne dans l’atelier Dyf – Arzon
by Marcel Dyf
Clement Mere was born in Bayonne in 1870. He apprenticed in Jean-Leon Gerome’s Paris atelier, and then returned home, where he began painting landscapes. However, he was drawn back to Paris at the turn of the century, where he began to produce leatherware and fabric patterns. In 1900 he joined Meier-Graefe’s La Maison Moderne, working closely with Franz Waldorff, a designer of bookbindings and embroidered silks. At this time he started to make letter openers, fans, toiletry items and bookbindings in repousse leather, galuchat and ivory. These objects were very refined and exquisitely made. Mere introduced his furniture in 1910 at the Salon des Artistes Decorateurs and Societe Nationale. His furniture took inspiration from the Louis XVI period and emphasized the object’s materials. His preferred woods were Macassar ebony, rosewood and maple, frequently decorated with plaques of ivory, leather or lacquer. His furniture was particularly noted for panels of repousse and polychromed leather frequently in a floral pattern. This and his plaques of carved ivory exhibited an Asian influence. In 1924 Mere received two important commissions, a cabinet for Lord Rothermere and a desk, now in the Musee des Arts Decoratifs, Paris, for Robert de Rothschild. Mere was also known for his small carved ivory boxes with exotic decoration.