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Søren Jensen Maple Grand Piano Caryatid Legs Hand-Painted by Gudmund Hentze
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A 1918, Søren Jensen model D butterfly grand piano with a polished, maple case. The gilt music desk is in an openwork, scrolling design featuring flowers, shells amd swags. Piano sits on three square, tapered legs with bronze female nude, caryatids adorning the top. The piano lyre features gilted, carved detail of foliage and berries. The pedals are in a spiral design. Carved, gilt, filgree panels featuring shells, foliage and scrolls adorn the piano cheeks.
Cabinet features hand-painted ovals by Danish artist Gudmund Hentze.
Oval 1 - A fair haired maiden, vested in blue with a golden belt holds a dagger aloft.
Oval 2 - A man flees a crowd of gnomes with a barrow filled with gold, urged on by a seated woman.
Oval 3 - A nurse snoozes next to a cot as a baby is stolen
Oval 4 - A seated maiden offers a scarlet clad man a golden cup
Oval 5 - The scarlet clad man flees at night with a golden cup across a river as nymphs grab his limbs to slow him down
Gudmund Hentze was a Danish symbolist and national romantic painter, graphic designer, designer, and illustrator. In 1893-1894 he was part of the movement around the journal Taarnet, which advocated symbolism in art, primarily literature led by the author Johannes Jørgensen. Hentze illustrated many books, including J.P. Jacobsen's novel Fru Marie Grubbe and fairy tales by Hans.C. Andersen. Hentze was primarily stylistically inspired by the English Prerafaelites and Aubrey Beardsley. His artworks often depict ideal naked female figures in a historical or mythological landscape.
Søren Jensen manufactured pianos in Copenhagen between 1893 - 1918. He co-founded the Danish Piano Manufacturers Association in 1895. He used artists and architects such as Gudmund Hentze to decorate the instruments. He championed decorative paintings reminiscent of those found on early harpsichords and clavichords and loved gilt decoration. He found grand pianos too much like furniture and relished the freedom to shape and embellish an instrument.
- Dimensions:Height: 38.19 in (97 cm)Width: 58.27 in (148 cm)Depth: 64.97 in (165 cm)
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- Date of Manufacture:1918
- Condition:Wear consistent with age and use.
- Seller Location:Leeds, GB
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