Cubist Vase By A. Riecke (20th Century) 60cm

CUBIST VASE By A. RIECKE (20th century) High vase by A. RIECKE, (60 cm) with square section in black colored glass, with geometric decoration cleared with a grindstone and enhanced with pastel, application of bars on both sides. France, Signed and dated: Year 4/1/51 Light wear, consistent with use and age. Dimensions: Height: 60 cm Width: 10 cm Depth: 10 cm Weight: 3.5 kg A. Riecke was a Russian glass artist living in France who died in the 1970s. He was in charge of decorating the Coupole in the 1930s and held several exhibitions in this establishment after the war. He frequented the artists gravitating around the Coupole and collaborated with some of them. His work is essentially composed of vases, planters and small pieces of furniture in a cubist or art deco style. The Restaurant La Coupole is the temple of Art Deco. It was born in 1927 from the will of two Auvergnats, Ernest Fraux and René Lafon. On the evening of the inauguration, everyone from the arts, literature and nightlife was there: artists and their models, socialites and high rollers. Among the first artists and intellectuals to adopt the place, we can cite Jean Cocteau, Foujita, Kisling, Giacometti, Zadkine, Joséphine Baker, Man Ray, Georges Braque and Brassaï. Louis Aragon and Elsa Triolet met there in 1928. In the 1930s, the aficionados of the place were Picasso, Simone de Beauvoir and Jean-Paul Sartre, Sonia Delaunay, André Malraux, Jacques Prévert, Marc Chagall, Édith Piaf among many others.