Mark Waller

Mark Waller, Director of Galerie Moderne Ltd. in London 1982-1999, Co-director of Le Pavillon de Sevres Ltd. in London 1990-1999, and Co-owner/Director of Gallery Moderne in Piermont, New York from 2003 – present, was one of London's few third-generation dealers. He has made a formidable study over the last forty one years of Rene 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 specializing in the Decorative Arts.

Mark has organized major exhibitions worldwide, as well as forming private collections, including a fine collection of Lalique car mascots, formerly housed at the National Motor Museum, in Beaulieu, Hampshire. He has helped mount two exhibitions of Rene Lalique's glass at the Tokyo Metropolitan Teien Museum and the important Lalique retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo. Mark also contributed to the following exhibitions: Rene Lalique (1992) at the Musée des Art Décoratif in the Louvre, Paris, and The Jewels of Lalique (1998-1999), the Smithsonian Institution's North American touring exhibition.

Mark has been researching further into the deeper aspects of Lalique's formative years in relation to the art movements of the epoch. He is frequently asked to advise on the subject by museums and collectors internationally.