AFTER JEAN DUPAS ( 1882-1964) - Lot 255

AFTER JEAN DUPAS ( 1882-1964) AND THE MASTER GLASSMAKER JEAN CHARLES CHAMPI-GNEULLE ( 1907-1955) Le Char de Poseidon, 1934 Painted glass, gold, silver, palladium. Numerous accidents and missing pieces Replica created in the 1960s in a reduced size compared with the 1930s original. THE ORIGINAL WORKS : The Musée de la Marine holds a slab. The MuMA holds a large drawing for the decor of the liner NORMANDIE, inaugurated in 1935. The decor adorned the first-class lounge. The glass panels organized around Dunand's large door, he designed four compositions on the theme of the sea: "L'enlevement d'Europe, La naissance D'Aphrodite, Le char de Thétis et le Char de Poseidon". The original panels covered an area of 400 m2 and were made of Saint-Gobain eglomized glass by master glassmaker Champi-gneulle. The original composition was divided into one hundred 1130 x 75 cm panels, which together covered an area 6.60 m high and 15 m long. Part of the original "Poseidon's 3char" decoration can now be found in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Arts in New York. A native of Bordeaux, Jean Théodore DUPAS was a draughtsman, painter, poster artist and decorator. He worked on the "Hotel du collectionneur", a pavilion designed by Ruhlmann for the 1925 Paris inter-national exhibition of decorative arts. The ocean liner NORMANDIE was the grest expression of French Art DECO taste. Government subsidies made it possible in 1932 for the Compagnie Générale Transatlantique to begin building a ship that was to be the largest , fastest and most beautiful afloat.