Zaire Centerpiece Bowl
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Exposition international colonial, maritime et d’art flamand, Antwerp, Belgium, 1930, no cat.
Inventing the Modern World: Decorative Arts at the World’s Fairs 1851-1939. The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO April 14– August 19, 2012; Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, October 13, 2012– February 24, 2013, New Orleans Museum of Art, April 12– August 4, 2013; Mint Museum, Charlotte, North Carolina, September 9, 3013– January 19, 2014, cat. no. 169.
This dynamic bowl features stylized horizontal bands, vertical ribs, and trapezoidal feet inspired by African stools and drums. Displaying demanding craftsmanship and design ability, this work of hand-hammered silver combines traditional qualities of African art with abstracted lines of the Art Deco style. The bowl was awarded the grand prize at the 1930 Exposition Internationale in Antwerp, Belgium.
With Historical Design, New York, by 2002;
Purchased from Historical Design, by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 2002.
Related model, Martine Caeymaex. L'Art Deco En Europe : Tendances Décoratives Dans Les Arts Appliqués Vers 1925, exh. cat. (Brussels: Palais Des Beaux-Arts, 1989), 146.
Similar model, Annelies Krekel-Aalberse, J. R. Ter Molen, and Joost Willink. Silver of a New Era: International Highlights of Precious Metalware from 1880 to 1940, exh. cat. (Netherlands : Seattle: S.n.; Distribution U.S.A., University of Washington, 1992) 90 (repro.).
Related model, Raf Steel and Wim Nys. Art-deco zilver: Antwerpen, Brussel, Gent = Art deco silver: Antwerp, Brussels, Ghent. (Antwerpen: Provinciaal Museum Sterckshof, Zilvercentrum, 1996) 89-99, 284.
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Newsletter (The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art) (April 2003): 8 (repro.).
Newsletter (The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art) (May 2003): 8 (repro.).
Catherine Futter, Jason T. Busch, et al. Inventing the Modern World: Decorative Arts at the World's Fairs, 1851-1939 (Pittsburgh, PA: Kansas City, MO: New York: Carnegie Museum of Art; The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art; Skira Rizzoli, 2012), 143-144 (repro.).
“Art Tattler, Shifting Shape of Modern Decorative Art, World Fairs, 1851-1939,” Art Tattler, Last Modified April 27, 2012. http://arttattler.com/designworldsfairsmodernworld.html.
Valluzzo, Andrea. “Inventing the Modern World, At the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art,” Antiques and the Arts Weekly (April 13, 2012): 1, 68-69, 67 (repro.)..
Reynolds, Brandon R., “ART MATTERS: The Vases Are Talking,” 435 South, The Magazine of South Johnson County, vol. 7, no. 10 (May 2012):66-69, 67 (repro.).
Busch, Jason and Catherine L. Futter, “Inventing the Modern World: Decorative Arts at the World’s Fairs, 1851-1939,” Magazine Antiques (March/April 2012): 88-97, 89-90 (repro.).
