FRENCH SCULPTURE CENSUS / RÉPERTOIRE DE SCULPTURE FRANÇAISE Sculptor to be identified The design is by Raymond SUBES (1891-1970) and the execution by Adalbert SZABO (1877-1961). Porte avec quatre médaillons représentant des lieux de Normandie Door with four medallions showing places in Normandy 1935 bronze relief Acc. No.: Credit Line: Photo credit: © Artist : New York, New York, Brooklyn, Our Lady of Lebanon Maronite Cathedral/Cathédrale Notre- Dame du Liban ololc.org/ Provenance 1935, Ten medallions showing places in Normandy were originally decorating the monumental entrance doors to the first-class dining room on the Ocean Liner Normandie 1939, At the outbreak of the war, she was interned and remained moored in New York harbor 1941, December, The U.S. Coast Guard took possession of Normandie under the right of angary; she was renamed SS Lafayette and the plan was to transform her into a troopship; furniture and decoration were evacuated Further history of the medallions: c. 1944, The doors were acquired by Father Mansour Stephen, in charge of Our Lady of Lebanon Church in Brooklyn. An art and antiques connoisseur, he had them rearranged to fit the openings for the new church dedicated in 1944; two doors were created, the one on Henry Street had six medallions, the one on Remsen Street had four medallions. Mansour Stephen also acquired the Captain's table from the Normandie (still in usage) (Further history of Ocean Liner Normandie/SS Lafayette: 1942, February 9, A fire takes place during the conversion efforts, the water poured by the firemen makes the ship capsize 1945, France refuses to salvage her 1946-1948, Normandie/SS Lafayette is demolished) Bibliography 2016 Lagache Jean-Pierre Lagache (des associations AREXCPO-HISTOIRE / Les Amis de French Line), "Les oeuvres méconnues, les oeuvres oubliées, les oeuvres disparues d'Albert Pommier", Le Cahier de l'Histoire du Pays Maraîchin, n° 3, mai 2016 Notice "Normandie (paquebot)", https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normandie_(paquebot)#Salon_fumoir (consultée le 4 mai 2020) / Entry "SS Normandie", https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_Normandie (accessed May 4, 2020) History of the cathedral Our Lady of Lebanon at: http://ololc.org/about.html (accessed May 4, 2020) https://www.seinemaritime.fr/actualites/actualite/le-rendez-vous-insolite-du-mercredi-quel-tresor- de-la-seine-maritime-se-cache-a-brooklyn-.html (consulté le 4 mai 2020, très bonnes photographies) Comment Upper left medallion: Le Havre, with a ship leaving the harbor. Upper right medallion: Château of Alençon. Lower left medallion: Château of Dieppe. Lower right medallion: Château of Falaise..