Au nouveaux cirque, Papa Chrysanthème
by TIFFANY, Louis Comfort, Favrile glass, leaded, 120 x 85 cm
In 1894, in cooperation with the eminent Parisian art dealer Siegfried Bing, Tiffany planned the production of glass windows based on designs created by French artists including Bonnard, Denis, Vallotton, and Toulouse-Lautrec. Just a year later the windows were presented at the Paris Salon on the Champ de Mars and at the opening of Bing’s gallery L’Art Nouveaux. Only a few are still in existence today, for example the present composition based on the work of Toulouse-Lautrec. Created in the flat poster style of Toulouse-Lautrec, it shows a detail from a circus scene.