Art Deco Cubist Vase signed Anatole Riecke from La Coupole Paris France
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Purchase a part of French history.
La Coupole Brasserie was founded in 1927 and once a leading center of artistic life. La Coupole is now the epitome of the grand Paris brasserie in Montparnasse. Former patrons included Josephine Baker, Henry Miller, Picasso, Dalí, Calder, Hemingway, Fitzgerald and many others. Some of the artists painted on the columns or added their creations to the decor.
This glass vessel bears the signature of the artist A. Riecke, a very talented cubist artist who lived and worked in Paris in the early 20th century. His name and date are etched in the glass as part of the decorative detail, dated (often indicated as month, day and two digits for the year).
Anatole Riecke was responsible for the Art Deco glass decor of restaurant La Coupole.
The term 'Cubist' was a derisive description by a critic of a geometric landscape painting done by Braque in 1908. Juan Gris, the originator of Collage, joined Picasso and Braque in 1910.
A. Riecke
Anatole Riecke, active Paris, 1930s
- Origin
- Russian, working in Paris
- Known for
- Engraved cubist Art Deco glass
- Commission
- Glass decoration, La Coupole, Paris, 1930–1937
Anatole Riecke was a Russian-born artist who settled in Paris and worked there through the Art Deco years. He is best known for engraved and cut glass in a cubist idiom.
Between 1930 and 1937 he was responsible for the Art Deco glass decoration of the restaurant La Coupole in Montparnasse, and pieces of his are dated to those years.
Riecke is thinly documented compared with his contemporaries, and dates for him vary between sources. We state what the piece itself carries — signature, engraved date — and mark the rest as opinion.
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