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Marius-Ernest Sabino (Italian, 1878-1961)
L’IDOLE (PAIR) c.1928
opalescent glass; (2)
each titled at base lower centre; with ‘Sabino France’ atbase on reverse
6½ x 5 x 4in. (16.51 x 12.70 x 10.16cm)
Provenance:
Collection of George and Maura McClelland
Literature
The Hunter Gatherer - The Collection of George and Maura McClelland, The Irish Museum of Modern Art,
Dublin, 2004, p.145 (one of pair, illustrated)
Ernest-Marius Sabino was born in Sicily in 1878 and moved to France with his family when he was young.
He attended the Ecole Nationale des Arts Decoratifs and the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris. After World
War I, Sabino founded a factory that manufactured traditional light fixtures of wood or bronze, and later
switched to glass fixtures. A contemporary of Rene Lalique, Sabino designed his glassware and lighting
himself until 1930, when he hired a production manager named Grivois, whose objective was to make
lighting transcend banality. Sabino used pressed and moulded pattern glass in bas-relief.
His commissions included lighting for hotels and restaurants, as well as for the 1935 oceanliner
Normandie. Sabino’s work was shown at the 1925 Exposition Internationale des Arts Decoratifs et
Industriels Modernes, as well as at the 1925 Salon d’Automne, for which he had designed the general
illumination of the halls, passageways, and antechambers.
Estimate €300-€500 (approx. £261-£435)
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