Covered cubist glass pot La Coupole Brasserie Paris 1930 signed Riecke

Cubist covered pot vase in black colored glass with frosty glaze effect, Worked at the wheel, signed a. Riecke, dated 1930, at light, the color is violet (see photos) Perfect condition, rare piece. Height 29 cm. Diam base 13.5 cm. Circumference 51 cm. Weight 1kg895. A. Rieke used different materials to sublimate his vases, and worked in collaboration with several artists of his time. Unique pieces work entirely manual. Perfect condition. A. Riecke, a russian artist based in paris, was responsible for the art deco glass decoration from 1930 to 1937 at the restaurant la coupole in paris. Restaurant la coupole is the temple of art deco. He was born in 1927 at the be what two auvergnats, ernest fraux and rené lafon, had. On the evening of the inauguration, everyone from the arts, letters, the night is there: artists and their models, socialites and flamboyants. Among the first artists and intellectuals to adopt the place were jean cocteau, foujita, kisling, giacometti, zadkine, josephine baker, man ray, georges braque and brassaï. Louis aragon and elsa triolet met there in 1928. In the 1930s, the aficionados of the place were picasso, simone de beauvoir and jean-paul sartre, sonia delaunay, andré malraux, jacques prévert, marc chagall, édith piaf among many others.

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