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Robert PANSART (Beauvais, 1909–1973, Beauvais), attributed t…
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288
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Robert PANSART (Beauvais, 1909–1973, Beauvais), attributed t…
See original version (French)
Estimate €4,000 - €6,000
Voluntary lot
Description
Robert PANSART (Beauvais, 1909–1973, Beauvais), attributed to.
The Abduction of Helen.
Decorative ensemble comprising 18 panels.
Eglomised and oxidised glass with silver and gold leaf, mirror, under-glass painting.
Unsigned.
Dimensions (approx.): 272 x 260 cm.
(A few chips and losses along the edges, particularly at the corners; wear and losses to the silvering and on the backgrounds; in good overall condition)
Robert Pansart was, alongside Max Ingrand and Pierre Lardin, one of the great French glass artists of the 1940s and 1950s.
He collaborated with interior designers such as Jean Pascaud, Jules Leleu and Marc du Plantier, as well as with master metalworkers including Raymond Subes, Gilbert Poillerat and René Drouet.
He is known for his contribution to the engraved glass decorations on the ocean liner *France*.
With this major decorative ensemble, Pansart chose to use modern techniques to depict a major theme from Greco-Roman culture: the abduction of Helen by Paris of Troy, after the latter had presented Aphrodite with the Apple of Discord, thereby crowning the goddess as the most beautiful of women.
This set complements the ‘Judgement of Paris’.
Both sets were most likely commissioned for a private mansion or the entrance to a building, as the size of the smaller of the two designs appears to have been adapted to the constraints of the wall it adorned.
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About the sale
ALL CATEGORIES: Jewellery, Silverware, Antique and Modern Paintings, Furniture and Objects of Art, Asian Art, 20th-Century Art, Tapestries and Rugs
Auction location
Auction time
09/30/2026 at 1:30 PM
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