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Author Topic: signature on a French Deco vase? ID = Henri Quenvil, decorator  (Read 4222 times)

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Re: signature on a French Deco vase? ID = Henri Quenvil, decorator
« Reply #10 on: August 27, 2016, 10:55:35 PM »
Thank you!  I have one or two pieces and love them.  The enamelling is fab.
What I love about this information is the ummm 'PR' aspect -

In your first post it appears the authors were 'bigging' up Legras :

'What is also interesting, is that some books on Legras, say that Quenvil has got nothing to do with Legras, because the quality is far more superior then Quenvil,[/u]

but in the write up of the exhibition in 1923 it says:

'All the objects on display carry the signature from the decorating artist Quenvil, a young man who can be classified as one of the best. His works of art are for sale in all department stores of good taste.'

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Re: signature on a French Deco vase? ID = Henri Quenvil, decorator
« Reply #11 on: August 28, 2016, 02:12:52 AM »
Sorry, the first post re the books and specialists on Legras was a recent quote. It's for instance in the book 'Legras'  by François Théodore. The report on the exhibition is much older of course. Sorry for the confusion.

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Re: signature on a French Deco vase? ID = Henri Quenvil, decorator
« Reply #12 on: August 30, 2016, 02:43:09 PM »
Hi Anne
but the sentiment is the same I suppose - the exhibition info was written contemporary to Mr Q enamelling his vases and at the time he was considered to be one of the best.
Much later - i.e. now - it has been said that his work was not good enough to be Legras.
Legras work is also lovely.  But in my opinion,  I'm not sure on what basis his work would be considered not good enough to be Legras?
The execution of the enamelling on Mr Q's work is very good. So quality wise in terms of execution it is very good.   
Perhaps it could be considered that his breadth of design ideas was more limited than the variation of work put out by Legras.  But then Legras was the biggest (?) and most prolific and probably decorated by more than one person I suppose. 

It's just funny how different spin and PR is put out really. 

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Re: signature on a French Deco vase? ID = Henri Quenvil, decorator
« Reply #13 on: August 30, 2016, 04:27:11 PM »
To be honest with you, I couldn't tell which one out of the two is better, I've never owned a Quenvil,  but perhaps from the more recent Legras point of view a bit of chauvinism is involved... as in how very dare you compare that to 'us'.  ::)

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