GALERIE HARTER Lighting

Felix Agostini (1910-1980), pair of sconces, bronze, circa 1970, France. Height 192 cm, diameter 74 cm.

Philippe Anthonioz (1953), patinated bronze sconce, circa 1988, France. Height 29 cm, width 50 cm, depth 27 cm.

Isamu Noguchi (1904-1988), Akari Suspension Model 33N, Washi paper, Edition Ozeki & Co, Ltd. With its original box, United States, circa 1970. Measures: 158 x 40 x 40 cm. Isamu Noguchi was born on November 17, 1904, in Los Angeles. His Japanese father was a poet and his American mother a writer. In 1906, the family moved to Japan. He was sent to Indiana for schooling in 1918, and in 1922 he apprenticed to the sculptor Gutzon Borglum in Connecticut. For the next two years, he was a premedical student at Columbia University, New York, and took sculpture classes at the Leonardo da Vinci Art School, also in New York. Noguchi decided to become an artist and left Columbia in 1925. A John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship in 1927 enabled him to go to Paris, where he worked as Constantin Brancusi’s studio assistant. In Paris, he became friendly with Alexander Calder, Stuart Davis, and Jules Pascin. Noguchi returned to New York in 1928 and the following year showed abstract sculpture in his first solo show at the Eugene Schoen Gallery. In 1930, Noguchi traveled in Europe and Asia, studying calligraphy in China and pottery in Japan. In New York during the early 1930s, he associated with Arshile Gorky, John Graham, Chaim Gross, and Moses and Raphael Soyer, and introduced social content into his work. He began to design playgrounds, furniture, and theater decor, executing the first of numerous sets for Martha Graham. During World War II, Noguchi became a political activist and voluntarily spent seven months in 1941–42 at a Japanese-American relocation camp in Arizona. In 1949, he was given a solo show at the Egan Gallery, New York. In Japan in 1950–51, he designed gardens, bridges, and monuments and developed his akari (paper lanterns). He showed at the Stable Gallery, New York, in 1954 and 1959. Noguchi’s first solo show in Paris was held at the Galerie Claude Bernard in 1964. The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, honored him with a major retrospective in 1968. Throughout the 1970s, Noguchi continued to make large outdoor sculpture and fountains...

Maison Arluce, floor lamp, Néo-classical floor lamp in imitation of an oil lamp, brass and iron painted, circa 1960, France. Height 153 cm, diameter 54 cm.

Venini, white opaline luster, black glass, circa 1960, Italy. Height 87 cm, diameter 70 cm.

Marcel Wanders, Skygarden pendant lamp, shiny white aluminum covered with white plaster, sculpted Edition Flos, circa 2000, Holland, Netherlands. Height 46 cm, diameter 91.5 cm. Fan...

John Richard, pair of lamps with altuglass and silvered brass pendants, artist's label, circa 1980, United States. Height 74 cm, width 21 cm.

Jean Touret (1916-2004) for the Marolles workshop, Four-light floor lamp model « Girouette », Wrought iron beaten with rooster decoration and under each light the initial of the four cardinal points, Tripod base, With four lampshades, Circa 1950, France. Measures : height 190.5 cm, width 41.91 cm, depth 55.88 cm. Jean Touret is a French sculptor, whose mainly religious work, uses wood and metals to achieve sometimes monumental sculptures (statuary, altars, organ buffets). His art that remains figurative but at the limit of abstraction, coincides with the movement back to the liturgical simplicity that Vatican II. Jean Touret is also known as designer. At the beginning of his career, in the Loir et Cher, he set up a craft cooperative "The Artisans de Marolles...

Maison Jansen, Céladon ceramic table lamp in the shape of bamboo, France, circa 1970. Measures: 20 x 20 x 61 cm. Maison Jansen is an interior design house located in Paris. It was...

Angelo Brotto Style, Esperia Edition, Table lamp, White leather and golden brass, With lampshade, Signed Esperia (Edition), circa 1980, Italy, Measures : Height: 101 cm, leather ba...

Arnaldo Pomodoro, bougeoir, signed on the base IL SESTANTE, gilt bronze, circa 1970, Italy. Measures: Height 5 cm, width 15.5 cm, depth 7.5 cm.

Pair of coconut tree lamps, Rattan decorated with leaves and two coconuts, circa 1960, Mexico. Measures : Height 96 cm, Diameter 76 cm.

Pair of candle holders, Zoomorphic tripod base in patinated bronze, Terracotta flared basins, circa 1970, France. Measures: Height 18 cm, dept...

In the style of Kérylos, Neoclassical suspension, Composed of a multi-layered glass basin with acid-free decoration of antique muses and bronze, circa 1...

Iron lantern in the shape of a navette, Forged and hammered iron, France, circa 1930. Measures: Height 105 cm, width 48 cm, depth 24 cm.

Pair of table lamps with two lights, Silvered metal, Two wavy sconces, Ring grip, With lampshade, France, circa 1970. Measures: Height 93 cm, width 46 cm...

Pair of sconces "Commedia dell'arte", Gilt iron, decorated with a theatrical mask, lyre and foliage France, circa 1960. Measures: Height 49.5 cm, width 41 cm, depth 12 cm.

Chandelier in the style of Jean Michel Frank, Iron and plaster, The suspension with disc decoration, circa 1970, France. Measures: Height 90 cm, diameter 73 cm.

Alessandro Mazzucotelli, luster, iron, signed, circa 1900, Italy. Measures: Height 120 cm, diameter 60 cm.

Table lamp, Vallauris, ceramic, circa 1970, France. Signed Measures: Height 62 cm, diameter 35 cm.

Emilio Terry style, pair of lamps, white opaline glass and metal, circa 1970, France. Measures: Height 53 cm, diameter 10 cm.

Pair of lamps, Lacquered metal and bronze gilded, Habitat edition, circa 1970, France. Measures: Height 55 cm, width 6 cm, depth 8 cm.

Great neoclassical lamp, At the Antique engraved decor, scagliola, Circa 1960, France. Height: 1 m, diameter: 30 cm.

Marcel Ramond (1935), Metal floor lamp, prototype, Phillips edition, Circa 1980, France. Height: 190 cm, width: 60 cm depth: 18 cm.

Marcel Ramond (1935) Metal lamp, prototype, Phillips edition, Circa 1980, France. Height: 60 cm, width: 58 cm depth: 10 cm.

Gaetano Pesce, wall sconce, Meritalia production, edited by "The Pesce," polyurethane resin, circa 2000, Italy, piece unique. Measures: Height 80 cm, diameter 80 cm, depth 11 cm....

Toni Cordero, candleholders, metal and enamelled copper, stone base. Production Studio Del Campo, circa 1980, Italy. Height: 77 cm, diameter: 10 cm.