Gabriel ARGY-ROUSSEAU (1885-1953). Conifère"... Lot 64

Gabriel ARGY-ROUSSEAU (1885-1953). Conifère" vase in mauve and red molten-pressed glass. Signed on the body and numbered below the base. Circa 1920. Height Height : 17.5 cm Bibliography Janine Bloch-Dermant, "G. Argy-Rousseau - les pâtes de verre", Les éditions de l'Amateur, Paris, 1990, referenced under number 24.04. In the last quarter of the 19th century, Henri Edmond Cross rediscovered a technique for molding polychrome glass powder, which he called "pâte de verre". It was in the latter's workshop in Sèvres that Gabriel Argy-Rousseau became familiar with this technique, invented in Antiquity. He began producing between 1910 and 1920, becoming a true master of color.