- Lot 161

Lot n° 161
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8000 - 12000 EUR
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Result : 16 900EUR
- Lot 161
PAUL-ETIENNE SAÏN (1904-1995) & HENRI TAMBUTÉ (1911-1987) Boar hunt Screen with five articulated leaves with carved decoration entirely lacquered polychrome, gold and silver on small cubic feet. Back of the leaves lacquered brown. Signed lower right on one of the leaves. H: 250 x W: 52.5 cm (each leaf) Provenance: Large Parisian collection SCREEN OF SAIN AND TAMBUTÉ A student at the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Paul-Etienne Saïn began working as a furniture and object restorer between the wars. Very quickly considered as one of the best technicians of his time, he became close to the famous collector Jacques Doucet and collaborated with the greatest of the time such as Leleu, Ruhlmann, Printz, or Adnet. During the 1930s, Saïn joined forces with the talent of Henri Tambuté. While continuing to work for other designers, the two men began to conceive original works. Proven technicians, they like large decorative compositions, gold and silver iridescence and give pride of place to engraved lacquerware in imitation of the ancient Chinese "Coromandel" lacquerware. Close to Jean Dunant, Saïn and Tambuté decorated the walls of the private restaurant of the Atlantic liner in 1931. With this success, they will participate in the adventure of the liner "Normandie", by providing a wall decoration to 24 cabins. Some twenty other ships followed, as well as the mythical fleet of Latécoères seaplanes. Their last prestigious order, dated 1962, was the lacquered decoration of the Chambord dining room on the "France", composed of monumental scenes illustrating the "Joys of Life". The work presented to you at the sale is characteristic of their work at the end of the 1930s: we find the superimposition of lacquers of different thicknesses and a composition at the borders of abstraction, this golden language on a dark background. With perfect technical mastery, the composition of a great balance, revisits with talent a classic of art history: the hunting scene. Blending a smooth and plain aubergine background with the shimmering virtuosity of a gold gradient, real waves of wheat carved into the mass in the manner of a slash, Saïn and Tambuté complete their composition by adding the green-dark presence of wild boars in relief - whose design is most certainly inspired by the famous Japanese school of Rinpa - without forgetting the hunters who, dressed in antique style, seem to have come out of a Cocteau drawing and are holding a pack of green, beige and black dogs on a leash with red and white eyes. This exceptionally large screen is made up of 5 panels linked together by double hinges.
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