L'Art de Cartier

The catalogue for the major Cartier retrospective held at the Musée du Petit Palais in Paris in 1989. The exhibition drew on the Cartier Collection to trace the house's history from the nineteenth century through the twentieth, and was one of the most significant public displays of the Collection in France before the 2013 Grand Palais retrospective.

The Petit Palais, the fine arts museum of the City of Paris on the Champs-Élysées, provided an institutional setting that placed the Cartier Collection alongside the museum's own holdings of decorative arts. The exhibition came one year after the Goldsmiths' Hall display in London (1988), and the two together marked a period in the late 1980s when the Collection was being shown in major European venues for the first time.

內容概述

A broad survey of the Cartier Collection's holdings, organised to illustrate the firm's stylistic development from the Garland Style period through Art Deco and into the mid-century. The catalogue documents jewellery, watches, clocks, and decorative objects exhibited at the Petit Palais.

取得途徑

Out of print. Found through antiquarian booksellers and the French secondhand market. The Paris-Musées imprint is the municipal publishing house of the City of Paris museums.

引用情況

Referenced in the exhibition history of the Flamingo Brooch and other pieces from the Cartier Collection that were shown at the Petit Palais.