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In 1921, the noted author and critic Gabriel Mourey recalled a visit he had made sixteen years earlier to see the dying Siegfried Bing, the great French champion of Japonisme. On that occasion in the summer of 1905, they met in Vaucresson where Bing was attempting to convalesce. Mourey recalled in exact detail the appearance of Bing’s apartment in Paris. He remembered the displays of painted screens, statues, and vases so vividly as to almost make Bing’s interior come alive. He also gave a sense of Bing’s intense sensual pleasure in seeing the beautiful things he had collected. We discover that Bing was not merely a merchant but an Aesthete.
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See Gabriel Weisberg, Art Nouveau Bing, Paris Style 1900 (New York: Henry N. Abrams, 1986); Gabriel P. Weisberg, Edwin Becker, and Évelyne Possémé (eds), The Origins of L’Art Nouveau, the Bing Empire (Amsterdam, Van Gogh Museum; Paris, Musée des arts décoratifs; Antwerp, Mercatorfonds, 2004).
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For example, “On the Opening of Bing’s Art Nouveau,” in Studio, 7 (1896), pp. 51–52; “ ‘L’Art Nouveau’ at Paris,” in Art Journal, 59 (1897), pp. 89–90; “The Decorative Art Movement in Paris,” in Studio, 10 (1897), pp. 119–124; “L’Art Nouveau de M. Bing à l”Exposition Universelle,” in Revue des arts décoratifs, 20 (1900), pp. 257–268, 278–284; “Round the Exhibition – 1. The House of ‘Art Nouveau Bing,” in Studio, 20 (1900), pp. 164–180; “Studio Talk,” in Studio, 23 (1901), pp. 279–282; “L’Exposition Georges de Feure,” in Art et décoration, 13 (1903), pp. 162–164.
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Gabriel Mourey, Essai sur l’art décoratif français moderne (Paris: Librairie Ollendorff, 1921), pp. 95–105.
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In 1921, the noted author and critic Gabriel Mourey recalled a visit he had made sixteen years earlier to see the dying Siegfried Bing, the great French champion of Japonisme. On that occasion in the summer of 1905, they met in Vaucresson where Bing was attempting to convalesce. Mourey recalled in exact detail the appearance of Bing’s apartment in Paris. He remembered the displays of painted screens, statues, and vases so vividly as to almost make Bing’s interior come alive. He also gave a sense of Bing’s intense sensual pleasure in seeing the beautiful things he had collected. We discover that Bing was not merely a merchant but an Aesthete.
| All Time | Past Year | Past 30 Days | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Abstract Views | 189 | 12 | 0 |
| Full Text Views | 210 | 2 | 0 |
| PDF Views & Downloads | 34 | 8 | 1 |