Collection Wolfers & Petrucci: Hidden Treasures

Philippe Wolfers
Ewer Orchid, 1895
Patinated bronze
Dimensions: 30,5 (with handle) × 20 cm
Signed: “Ph. Wolfers” on the side, beneath the handle
Provenance:
Philippe Wolfers
Marcel Wolfers and Clairette Petrucci collection
(by descent)
Exhibited:
Brussels, Cercle Artistique et Littéraire de Bruxelles,
11/04–29/04/1895, cat. No. 14 (possibly this
example ?)
London, St-George’s Gallery, 1895, cat. No. 22 (possibly
this example?)
Paris, Galerie l’Art Nouveau (Samuel Bing), December
1895, cat. No. 654 (possibly this example?)
München, Secession – Internationalen Kunst-Austellung
des Vereins bildender Künstler Münchens, April
1898, cat. No. 491 (possibly this example?)
Turin, Prima Esposizione internationale d’arte decorative
moderna, 1902, (possibly this example?)
Brussels, Galerie l’Ecuyer, 13/10–12/11/1972, cat. No. 30.
Ghent, Museum voor Sierkunst, 12/05–10/06/1979,
cat. No. 10
Buenos Aires, Museo de Arte Moderno de la Ciudad de
Buenos Aires, 01/06–29/07/1990, cat. No 171
Lissabon, Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, 05/11–
05/12/1991, cat. No. 128
Brussels, Koninklijke Musea voor Kunst en
Geschiedenis, 15/02–15/04/1992, cat. No. 128
Zürich, Bellerive Museum, 06/10/1993–09/01/1994,
cat. No. 61
Ghent, Design museum Gent, 16/12/2006–09/04/2007
Turin, s.l., 1994, cat. No. 180.
Bibliography:
H. Fierens-Gevaert, La Sezione Belga all’Esposizione
d’Arte Decorativa Moderna in L’Arte Decorativa
Moderna – Rivista di Architettura e di Decorazione
della Casa e della Via, Torino, Camilla E Bertolero,
Anno I, Giugno 1902 N. 6, p. 180 (photo)
Philippe Wolfers : juwelen, zilver, ivoor, kristal
(1858–1928), Gent, Museum voor Sierkunst, 1979,
p. 16–17 (with photo)
En Belgica, El Art Nouveau 1893–1905, Buenos Aires,
1990, p. 67
Philippe & Marcel Wolfers – De l’Art Nouveau à l’Art
Déco, Bruxelles, K.M.K.G., 1992, p. 90
Philippe und Marcel Wolfers – Art Nouveau und Art
Déco aus Brüssel, Zürich, Museum Bellerive, 1993,
p. 64 (with photo)
Torino 1902 – Le Arti Decorative Internationali del
Nuovo Secolo, Torino, Fabbri Editori, 1994, p. 230
(full page photo) & p. 252 (with photo)
De Dynastie Wolfers – Meesters in zilver, Gent, Design
museum Gent, 2006, p. 16 (with photo)
Adriaenssens W., Beredeneerde Catalogus van het
persoonlijke oeuvre van Philippe Wolfers in De
Wolfers Dynastie – van art nouveau tot art deco,
Gent, Design museum Gent, 2006, p. 318 (No. 13)
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