DECORATIVE ARTS & DESIGN

Thursday 07 December 2023 at 4 PM

@ Art Research Paris

174 rue du Faubourg Saint-Honoré 75008 Paris - France

Lots 72 to 120

A student at the Ecole Boulle in sculpture and engraving, he continued his training with Edgar Brandt, a Parisian artistic ironworker from the first half of the 20th century. He specializes in artistic ironwork, providing models for prestigious commissions, such as the necklace of the Grand Master of the Order of the Liberation given to General de Gaulle in 1947, or the ironwork of the Great Synagogue of the Peace of Strasbourg, commissioned in 1954, of which he created the doors, the central skylight, the Holy Arch and the candelabra in particular. From 1934 to 1939, he created haute couture costume jewelry in collaboration with the famous fashion designer Jacques Heim, and began working on a series of cast bronze medals, providing models for the edition of commemorative medals.

This is how, in 1953, Poillerat was at the origin of the revival of the lost art of sulphide manufacturing, of which the present collection, from his own workshop, is part of a tradition of the inherited medal of the 17th and 18th centuries in France, from which he claims. The Épinal museum and many American museums keep series of similar “sulphides” in their collections.