César

The Ecrins of Versailles, Versailles, February 20, 2022, lot 308

Acquired from the above by the present owner

Diane Venet, From Picasso to Jeff Koons: The Artist as Jeweler, Skira, Milan, 2011, p. 152 for a later version

Martine Newby Haspeslagh, Art to Wear: Jewellery by Post-War Painters and Sculptors, Didier, London, 2012, p. 24

Louisa Guinness, Art As Jewellery: From Calder to Kapoor, ACC Art Books, Suffolk, 2018, p. 152

It is rumored that César made these ‘Le Sein’ pendants so that men would have something to fiddle around with in their pockets - a cross between a worry stone and a historical miniature portrait to recall one’s lover.