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Part of Modern and Contemporary Art
Joseph Garino (French (born Italy))
Date: ca. 1902Accession Number: 66.244.26
Odilon Redon (French, Bordeaux 1840–1916 Paris)
Date: ca. 1906Accession Number: 59.16.3
Date: 1901Accession Number: 60.54
Gustav Klimt (Austrian, Baumgarten 1862–1918 Vienna)
Date: 1899Accession Number: 1980.412
Édouard Vuillard (French, Cuiseaux 1868–1940 La Baule)
Date: 1889Accession Number: 55.173
Emile Gallé (French, Nancy 1846–1904 Nancy)
Date: ca. 1900Accession Number: 1984.553
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This dining room, the only complete French Art Nouveau interior in an American museum, comes from the Paris apartment of Auguste Rateau, an engineer and art connoisseur. It was created by Lucien Lévy-Dhurmer, a ceramist who, about 1895, turned his hand to painting and decorating.
Wisteria symbolizes welcome, and Lévy-Dhurmer incorporated the motif throughout the room: pointillist-style murals depict birds in wisteria-laden landscapes; walnut-veneered paneling is inlaid with purplish amaranth representing clusters of blossoms; further clusters are carved on the furniture and stamped on the leather upholstery; the bronze-and-alabaster standing lamps evoke the trunks of wisteria vines. The outer gallery features a selection of works by Redon and other artists.
