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L’IDOLE (PAIR) c.1928 Marius-Ernest Sabino (Italian, 1878-1961)
Signature: each titled at base lower centre; with 'Sabino France' atbase on reverse Medium: opalescent glass; (2) Dimensions: 6½ x 5 x 4in. (16.51 x 12.70 x 10.16cm) Provenance: Collection of George and Maura McClelland Exhibited: 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 more