The Musée du Luxembourg in Paris will be presenting the 1st French retrospective dedicated to the famous exceptional American creator Louis C. Tiffany since the 1900 Paris World Fair from 16 September 2009 to 17 January 2010.
Louis Comfort Tiffany was the founder of Tiffany & Co. in New York. He is unquestionably among one of the most talented creators of all time. By 1900, his painter’s eye in terms of colour and composition, his passion for exoticism and his innovations in glassmaking, carried by his advertising instinct made him a leader in American design whose reputation had extended all the way to the major European capitals. His reputation rivals with the great European glassmakers of the late 19th century.
The sumptuous ornamentation, the meticulous work, the spectacular, original effects of light and colour that characterize his glassworks (vases made of blown glass, stained-glass windows, lamps and objects) place him at the centre of numerous artistic movements of his time, from Arts & Crafts and the American Aesthetic Movement to Art Nouveau and Symbolism.
The exhibition will bring together approximately 160 works (stained-glass windows, a large selection of vases, lamps, objects, jewellery and mosaics, period drawings and photos) that will reveal the exceptional contribution of this creator, to both the glassmaking industry and the decorative arts. The exhibition is divided into six themes.
The exhibition was designed by the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, organised in Paris together with the Musée du Luxembourg, and in Richmond with the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts.
More information:
Musée du Luxembourg
19 rue de Vaugirard
75006 Paris, France
+33 (0)1 42 34 25 95
info@museeduluxembourg.fr
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