Glass picture - With fruit still life

Ceramics and Glass Collection

Accession Nr.: 2010.256.1
Artist/Maker:
Báthory, Júlia (1901 - 2000) / designer
Date of production:
1930-1940
Place of production: Paris
Inscription: balra lent, az ezüstfóliába karcolva: BJ
Materials: sheet glass; silver foil
Techniques: engraved; grinded; silvered by silver foil
Dimensions:
height: 29,1 cm
width: 40 cm
thickness: 0,6 cm
In an oval dish in the middle of the lying oblong format there are summer fruits – pear, cherries and apple – and to the left ofthe dish a raspberry. The stylized subtly drawn composition with the succulent compact fruit forms and the sharply outlined,“constructed”, “artificial” dish shape combine into a harmonious and sensitive composition which is intensified by the cracks, stains suggesting transience. The latter is achieved with patina. The picture covered with silver leaf is outlined with acut line and enframed by a broad water clear glass band.

Literature

  • Szerk.: Horányi Éva: Art deco és modernizmus. Lakásművészet Magyarországon 1920-1940. Iparművészeti Múzeum, Budapest, 2012. - Nr. 3.174.
  • Balla Gabriella: Acquisitions between 2006 and 2010. Ars Decorativa, 28. (2012). 2012. - Nr. 2.7.