Lot 145
  • 145

ELSA TRIOLET FOR MOLYNEUX, CIRCA 1930 |

Estimate
1,000 - 1,500 EUR
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Description

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A green rope necklace embellished with twenty metal rings

Literature

Elsa Triolet has been photographed by Man Ray wearing a similar model in 1931, several pictures are kept in the Musée national d'art moderne – Centre Pompidou in Paris Florence Müller, Les Paruriers Bijoux de la Haute Couture, Fonds Mercator, 2006, model in another color illustrated p. 236

Florence Calame-Levert, Coralie CadèneDominique Chélot, Bernard Vasseur, De neige et de rêve, les bijoux d'Elsa Triolet, Chêne, 2015, several models in other colors shown p. 31, 45-47, 104-106

Condition

Rope tassel color is faded, also marked under resin motifs who were possibly originally placed just near the metal rings. Clasp is scratched. Unsigned.
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Catalogue Note

Two similar models in another color are kept in the Elsa Triolet library in Saint-Etienne-du-Rouvray