18 - Larche, Raoul “Table lamp: La Lampe Loïe Fuller”1860 Saint-André-de-Cubzac - 1912 Paris,gilded bronze, signed, foundry mark: Siot DecauvilleFondeur Paris, numbered: I 797, electrified, one lightsource, cable missing, two minor cracks on the base, height: 33 cm,

Larche, Raoul “Table lamp: La Lampe Loïe Fuller”1860 Saint-André-de-Cubzac - 1912 Paris,gilded bronze, signed, foundry mark: Siot DecauvilleFondeur Paris, numbered: I 797, electrified, one lightsource, cable missing, two minor cracks on the base, height: 33 cm, Loïe Fuller, alias Marie Louise Fuller (1862-1928), was the first dancer to use electric light in her veil dances * * Larche, a sculptor and painter, studied at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris; regularly exhibited at the Salon des Artistes Français from 1884 to 1911; member of the jury at the École des Beaux-Arts de Paris and the Salon des Artistes Français, made an Officer of the Legion of Honour in 1910, received a number of official commissions,‘La Lampe Loïe Fuller’ achieved worldwide fame; the lamp is available inthree variations, differing in terms of the dancer’s veil and expression,and in various sizes* Bibliography: Berman (1974) illustration no. 2292, Kjellberg (1994)illustration on page 413, De Gruyter (2014), Thieme-Becker (1922),* Provenance: Bergmann Auction House, Erlangen,Miehle-Adelsberger Collection