Rare Gemmail Aux Fleurs Circa 1960/70

Rare gemmail with flowers in a metal frame resting on a black composite base, circa 1960/70. The gemmail technique developed by the painter Jean Crotti and the physicist Roger Malherbe Navarre in the 1930s was very popular after the war. Gemmail consists of superimposing pieces of glass combined with a colorless binder and sublimated by light. Cocteau considered gemmail to be the "eighth art". Many artists took up this new technique, the most famous of which was Picasso who exhibited it at the Metropolitan Museum in New York, in Chicago and at the Charpentier gallery in Paris. The Franklin D Roosevelt station of the Paris metro was decorated with it at the end of the 1950s. Later, twenty pieces on the theme of the apparitions made by René Margotton were placed in the Basilica of Lourdes.
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