Decorative Arts & Design
Muse with Violin Screen
MetalworkMythology & Allegory
Details
- Author / creator
- Paul Fehér (American, born Hungary, 1898–1990)
- Object type
- Metalwork
- Date or period
- 1930
- Dimensions summary
- Overall: 156.2 × 156.2 cm
- Maker or workshop
- Paul Fehér
- Period / style
- Art Deco / Modernism
- Place of origin
- America
- Acquisition method
- Purchase
- Credit line
- Purchased with the Hartley Bequest Fund, 2020
- Image rights
- Public domain (CC0)
About this object
In the 1920s, he hired a talented young Parisian designer, Paul Fehér, to work for the firm. Fehér’s designs, culminating in this massive screen, brought a modern European sensibility to the Rose Iron Works production. With its geometric patterning, highly stylized and abstracted natural forms, and the central figure reminiscent of the celebrated jazz singer Josephine Baker, this screen reflects the classic motifs of Art Deco design.
Materials and technique
Steel, brass; silver and gold plating, cotton velveteen
