Art as Jewelry as Art
Art as Jewelry as Art
Pol Bury
'Boules des deux côtés d'un cylindre' Bracelet
Lot Closed
October 6, 04:12 PM GMT
Estimate
40,000 - 50,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Pol Bury
1922 - 2005
'Boules des deux côtés d'un cylindre' Bracelet
1968, signed 6/25 Pol Bury ‘68 on reverse, stamped with maker’s mark GM
18k gold with articulated spheres on the interior and exterior of the cylinder with original box; edition 6/25 ( which sold out in 1972); executed by GEM Montebello, Milan
Internal Diameter: 2⅘ in.; 7.2 cm. (excl. spheres)
Louisa Guinness Gallery, London
Acquired from the above by the present owner
Dore Ashton, Pol Bury, Galerie Maeght, Paris, 1970, p. 139, no. 98b
Bijoux de Pol Bury, Galerie Maeght, Paris, 1972, no. 29 Rosemarie Pahlke, Pol Bury: monographies de l’art moderne, avec catalogue raisonné, Brussels,
Gemeentekrediet, 1994, no. J 69-3
Marilena Mosco, L’arte del Gioiello e il Gioiello d’artista dal ‘900 ad oggi = the Art of Jewelry and Artist’s Jewels in the 20th Century, Giunti, Florence, 2001, p. 290, fig. 112, and p. 297, tav. LV.
Emmanuel Guigon, Bijoux d’Artistes: une collection, Silvana Editoriale, Milan, 2012, p. 67
Louisa Guinness, Art As Jewellery: From Calder to Kapoor, ACC Art Books, Suffolk, 2018, p. 135
Manon Lecaplain, Emmanuel Guigon, et al., Picasso y las joyas de artista, Museu Picasso, Barcelona, 2021, p. 122
This ‘Boules des deux côtés d’un cylindre’ Bracelet was part of an edition of twenty-five produced by the goldsmith
GEM Montebello, which sold out immediately when it was exhibited at Cartier in 1971. Bury worked with the Parisian gallery Maeght in order to bring these tiny versions of his larger work to fruition and fully believed that they were works of art of identical value, suggesting that owners display his jewelry like museum pieces when they were not adorning the body.