Newly Discovered Pair of 1920s Cubist Frescoes by Eyre de Lanux

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Newly Discovered Pair of 1920s Cubist Frescoes by Eyre de Lanux

About

Eyre de Lanux (1894-1996) hailed from a prominent Philadelphia family, and studied painting in New York under Robert Henri. After marrying a French diplomat at the end of the First World War, she moved to Paris, and became an apprentice to the sculptor Constantin Brancusi. A talented painter and sculptor, Lanux specialized in what she called fresco paintings, which she showed in Paris and New York at the galleries of Peggy Guggenheim and Alexander Iolas. Fresco, however, is a misnomer since they are painted in wet plaster, and hers were incised and sculpted in a wet concrete-like mixture that she painted when dry. The lines incised in this pair of panels from the 1920s are similar to those chiseled in stone by Brancusi, but the Cubist compositions were inspired by her friend Pablo Picasso, who. One of these still lives depicts a bottle of Gordon’s Gin, a martini glass with an olive, a pipe, a smoldering cigar, an ace of diamonds, an Ionic capital, stars, a mask, and what looks like a newspaper. The other depicts a bottle of VO Whisky, a seltzer bottle, a cut-glass tumbler, a lemon for a twist, an ace of hearts, dice, and a ukulele, on a background of books. They belonged to Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Simpson of New York, a Social Register couple who collected art by Modigliani, Picasso, Matisse, de Chirico, and Miró. Around 1927 they asked Lanux to decorate their Paris pied-a-terre. She painted the dining room terracotta, designed a table with a terracotta top, bought chairs from Jean-Michel Frank, and collaborated on a rug design with the weaver Evelyn Wyld. Lanux turned the alcove into a wet bar that she mirrored and furnished with another Wyld rung, and an African tribal mask. Our Lanux terracotta-painted panels would seem to have been commissioned by the Simpsons, or given to them by the artist, since the imagery relates to their interests -- books and the arts -- as well as their hobbies -- drinking, smoking, and poker playing. In any case, they quite likely hung in this room originally.

Details

Creator
Eyre de Lanux (Artist)
Dimensions
Height: 15.75 in (40.01 cm)Width: 22.5 in (57.15 cm)Depth: 2 in (5.08 cm)
Sold As
Set of 2
Style
Modern (Of the Period)
Materials and Techniques
Plaster,Engraved,Painted
Place of Origin
France
Period
1920-1929
Date of Manufacture
circa 1925
Condition
Wear consistent with age and use. Made from a concrete-like aggregate backed with masonite, these panels are heavy, weighing about 35 pounds each.
Seller Location
New York, NY
Reference Number
1stDibs: LU1061414793921