Mark Waller, Owner and Director of Galerie Moderne Ltd 1982-1999, and Co-director of Le Pavillon de Sevres Ltd, was one of London’s few third-generation dealers. He has made a formidable study over the last thirty years of Lalique’s work, and has written a book on the subject, entitled The Art of Rene Lalique (London,1988, 1997), with Patricia Bayer, an American writer specialising in the decorative arts. He has organised major exhibitions worldwide, as well as forming private collections, including the Pickard-Cambridge Family Collection of Car Mascots, formerly housed at the National Motor Museum, Beaulieu, Hampshire. He has helped mount two exhibitions of Rene Lalique’s glass at the Tokyo Metropolitan Teien Museum, the important Lalique retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, also contributing to the Exhibitions, Rene Lalique (Louvre,Paris 1992)and The Jewels of Lalique,(1998-9)The Smithsonian Institution’s North American touring exhibition, and is frequently asked to advise on the subject by museums and collectors internationally.
Now relocated in New York He has spent the past few years researching further the deeper aspects of Laliques formative years, in relation to the Global Moderne Art movements.
In summer ‘ 04 an opportunity in Piemont New York cryatallised into an opportunity to take Gallery Moderne LTD . retail once again.
