id:			146091
accession number:	1971.28
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1971.28
updated:		2024-03-26 01:59:29.374000

Bench, c. 1900. Attributed to Louis Majorelle (French, 1859–1926). Gilt wood; overall: 75 x 118.1 x 40.7 cm (29 1/2 x 46 1/2 x 16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, James Parmelee Fund 1971.28

title:				Bench
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creation date:			c. 1900
creation date earliest:		1895
creation date latest:		1905
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creditline:			James Parmelee Fund
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culture:	France, Nancy, late 19th-early 20th Century
technique:	gilt wood
department:	Decorative Art and Design
collection:	Furniture
type:		Furniture and woodwork
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CREATORS

* Louis Majorelle (French, 1859–1926)  - artist
Louis Majorelle, the son of a cabinet-maker, Auguste Majorelle, who worked in Nancy and specialized in reproduction 18th C. furniture. He was trained as a painter (under Millet in Paris) but gave up on painting and returned to Nancy to run the family workshops when his father died in 1879. Until 1890 he continued to work, like his father, in 18th C. styles for furniture. In the 1880s Gallé's first Art Nouveau pieces of furniture were made (in Nancy), and by 1900 Majorelle had so successfully turned over to the new style that he had become the main producer of Art Nouveau furniture and perhaps Europe. He mechanized his workshops, which were said to have been 'organized in the manner of a big industrial concern': and although his factory produced nothing that could not have been made as well, if not better, by the techniques of hand-craftsmanship, it was able to produce luxury furniture at a price within the range of the middle class.
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measurements: Overall: 75 x 118.1 x 40.7 cm (29 1/2 x 46 1/2 x 16 in.)
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		Year in Review: 1971
	opening date:   1971-12-28T05:00:00
	<i>Year in Review: 1971</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (December 28, 1971-February 6, 1972).

	title:		Art Nouveau in France
	opening date:   1988-07-12T04:00:00
	<i>Art Nouveau in France</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (July 12-November 27, 1988).

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PROVENANCE

	(Lillian Nassau, New York).
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