Paul Fehér "Muse with Violin" Wrought-Iron Screen (1930)
An Art Deco screen designed by Paul Fehér for the Rose Iron Works in Cleveland in 1930, with a stylized female musician framed by geometric scrolls and stepped forms.
Paul Fehér was the chief designer at Cleveland's Rose Iron Works, and this screen is one of the best-known pieces of American Art Deco metalwork. A stylized figure playing a violin is set among angular scrolls, fountains of lines and stepped borders, all within a strong rectangular frame. It shows the Deco habit of combining figurative ornament with geometry. As a reference for radiator covers or room-divider screens, it demonstrates how a pierced panel can carry an image while still letting air and light through.
Pierced decorative panel cut on the CNC in hardwood, MDF or thin metal, set in a frame for a radiator cover or screen; Heirloom tier.
A custom version typically runs $1,600–$3,200 per cover, shipped.
- Style
- Art Deco
- Element
- Radiator Covers
- Date
- 1930
- Maker or designer
- Paul Fehér (American, born Hungary, 1898–1990), Rose Iron Works (America, Ohio, Cleveland, est. 1904)
- Materials
- Steel, brass; silver and gold plating, cotton velveteen
- Dimensions
- Overall: 156.2 x 156.2 cm (61 1/2 x 61 1/2 in.)
- Source
- Cleveland Museum of Art
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