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Émile GALLE (1846-1904) - Glazed earthenware pique-fleurs decorated with japanese gardens, chrysanthemums and a butterfly Signed circa 1890 H : 16 cm Diam : 20 cm Bibliography: "La céramique de Gallé- Musée de Matsue Kitahori" for a similar design reproduced on page 49 EMILE GALLE A renowned botanist and gifted scientist, Gallé was a true nature worshipper. This irresistible attraction to nature, combined with his repeated participation in World Fairs from 1867 onwards, led Emile Gallé to take an interest in the art of Japan, and to immerse himself in the Japanese culture that Europe was discovering in the mid-nineteenth century. He embraced the Japanese sensibility for nature, drawing inspiration from it while preserving his own concepts. Émile Gallé thus renewed both European and Japanese art. If he borrowed from Japan, it was to create a new art, a synthesis of the two cultures. "Nature itself is the starting point of everything" (Emile GALLÉ, 1884) It is to Japanese art that Gallé owes his elegance and his ability to stylize, keeping intact the essence of the object represented. The emphasis on the silhouette and deliberate asymmetry were the key lessons he drew from Japanese art. The catalyst for this source of inspiration seems to have been a certain Takacyma, a Japanese student at the Ecole forestière in Nancy between 1882 and 1885, whose sketches E mile Gallé and Eugène Vallin admired, and with whom it is safe to assume that the two Nancy natives had many exchanges of ideas. As early as 1871, during his visit to London, Gallé could not fail to observe the infatuation with Japanese art that reigned in the artistic and social circles of the British capital. By 1867, Whistler and Godwin had already furnished their homes in the Japanese style; Rossetti, William Morris, Oscar Wilde and many others became enthusiastic champions after discovering it at the 1862 South Kensington Exhibition. It was in the creations of the mature period that the influence of Japanese art was most important and significant. "Nature itself is the starting point of everything". (Emile GALLÉ, 1884)

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