Large Table Lamp, By Claude Victor Boeltz, Paris, France, Circa 1980

Large table lamp in “exploded” bronze gilded with fine gold. Gold-plated brass frame.
It supports a block of rock crystal.
Original lampshade.

Biography

Claude Victor Boeltz, France (1937)

Claude-Victor Boeltz is born in 1937 in Paris. Complete artist (sculpture, painting, foundry, pottery, ironwork), « meilleur ouvrier de France », after many experiences and learning sculpture from Henri Mollens, Claude-Victor Boeltz finally focused on working with bronze and semi-precious stones . In the 1960s, he created a foundry in the Loire Valley and received the prize for the youngest craftsman in France. His works are therefore exhibited throughout Europe. He met the sculptor César in 1970, his work inspires this creation called “exploded bronze” (explosion of molten bronze).
He collaborated with great jewelers, including Cartier, and sold his creations in an art gallery located Faubourg St Honoré in Paris. He left for the United States in the 1980s and worked for famous palaces in Dallas.