Michel Salerno graduated from Villa Arson. He also received training in locksmithing, brassware, restoration, blacksmithing, fine steel, bronze assembly and cutting. Specializing in metal work, Michel Salerno manages to dexterously combine delicate ancestral know-how with a contemporary vision of the medium.
In his personal approach, he has the habit of confronting the timeless quality of metal with naturalistic forms which emphasize the ephemeral and fragile character of nature. A taste for vanity which also shines through the recurring motif of the mirror. Michel Salerno recently showed his work at Leila Heller Gallery (New York, 2019) and Design Miami (2017).
Trained at Beaux-Arts de Paris, in the studio of Ingres, Célestin Nanteuil is the Romantic engraver par excellence. Inspired by the literature of the Romantic period—Hugo, Dumas, and Gautier—he placed his creative independence and his ornamentalist flair at the service of writers, painters, and journals, with all of his work being illustrations or interpretations.
Lénore, 1835 Plume et encre de Chine, rehauts de gouache, 14,2 x 19,5 cm © Beaux-Arts de Paris, EBA 11178
This photograph is part of a body of works by singular and major figures, known and unknown, constituted to introduce students to the artists who were at the foundation of the art of the twentieth century.
Barbette (Vander Clyde), 1926 Tirage sur papier au sel d’argent d’époque, 23,7 x 17,2 cm © Beaux-Arts de Paris, Ph 25044
