Vase aux danseurs stylisés (Vase with stylised dancers)

Both a doctor and an author of books on art and philosophy published in the 1950s and 60s, Marcelle Wahl is less well known for her paintings and enamelled glass she created mainly before the Second World War. She nonetheless exhibited her enamelled glassware during the 1920s at the Exhibition of Artists and Decorators and Autumn Salons “which were interesting”, as we can read in number 22 of the Echos des Industries d’Art published in May, 1927. Influenced by Expressionism, her glassware is usually decorated with abstract or stylised shapes in bright colours, applied in powerful brushstrokes.  Part of Marcilhac’s former collection, this blue and black enamelled vase, that makes us think of stylised dancers, was often exhibited and published before Barlach Heuer, an art connoisseur, acquired it in 2014 and donated it to our Conches Glass Museum.