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Muse with Violin Screen

1930
designer

Paul Fehér

(American, born Hungary, 1898–1990)
maker

Rose Iron Works

(America, Ohio, Cleveland, est. 1904)
Culture
America, Ohio, Cleveland
Medium
Steel, brass; silver and gold plating, cotton velveteen
Measurements
Overall: 156.2 x 156.2 cm (61 1/2 x 61 1/2 in.)
Weight: approx. 150 lbs.
Credit Line
Leonard C. Hanna Jr. Fund 2020.216
Public Domain
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Location
226A American Modern
Print

Description

Since the early years of the 20th century, the Rose Iron Works, a Cleveland supplier of architectural ornament, has produced distinguished metalwork. The company’s founder, Martin Rose, was born in Austria-Hungary and studied ornamental metalsmithing in Vienna prior to immigrating to Cleveland in 1902. In the 1920s, he hired a talented young Parisian designer, Paul Fehér, to work for the firm. Fehér’s designs, culminating in this massive screen, brought a modern European sensibility to the Rose Iron Works production. With its geometric patterning, highly stylized and abstracted natural forms, and the central figure reminiscent of the celebrated jazz singer Josephine Baker, this screen reflects the classic motifs of Art Deco design.
Square screen with a dark blue velvet-like background in front of which silver geometric shapes run with a central image of a nude, gold person in profile, looking up as they hold a violin to their shoulder with their left hand and a bow hanging down behind them in their right. A sliver scarf drapes down from their left arm to lowered right hand and silver, stylized foliage sprouts behind them. Semi-circular geometric patterns surround them, then two flanking columns with an alternating geometric and foliage pattern.

Muse with Violin Screen

1930

Paul Fehér, Rose Iron Works

(American, born Hungary, 1898–1990), (America, Ohio, Cleveland, est. 1904)
America, Ohio, Cleveland

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