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Gustav Gurschner “Symbolist Reverie” Bronze Pin Tray
$3,950
This French Art Nouveau bronze pin tray by Gustav Gurschner titled “Symbolist Reverie” depicts the face of a sleeping maiden wearing a diadem. Her long, flowing hair swirls before her relaxed, sleep-like visage to create the tray. The headpiece she wears bears a singular red stone in the center of her forehead. The woman’s dream-like state is referred to in the title as the reverie, which is the French for the phenomenon of daydreaming. The woman in reverie is a famous Art Nouveau trope, most notably produced in lithograph by Alphonse Mucha’s “Reverie,” created in 1897.
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Item #: YS-20970
Artist: Gustav Gurschner
Country: France
Circa: 1900
Dimensions: 3.5" height, 5.5" width, 8.5" depth.
Materials: Patinated Bronze
Signed: ''GURSCHNER''
Literature: Art Nouveau Sculpture by Alastair Duncan, p. 49, and in The Paris Salons 1895-1914, vol. 5 by Alastair Duncan, p. 305.
This design by Gustav Gurschner was created for La Maison Moderne, the Montmartre home purchased by Spanish Ramon Pichot Gironès in 1905. The Catalan and Spanish artist was a close friend of Pablo Picasso and an influence on the young Salvador Dalí whom Gironès met when the surrealist was only ten years old. This bronze tray not only carries a famous Art Nouveau Motif but also the legacy of a generation of master artists.