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Line Vautrin
La Foule (The Crowd)
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October 6, 05:40 PM GMT
Estimate
8,000 - 10,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Line Vautrin
1913 - 1997
La Foule (The Crowd)
circa 1948, stamped LINE VAUTRIN on reverse
gilded bronze box, top carved with faces, with original cork-lined interior
1⅕ by 5¾ by 3⅛ in.; 3 by 14.75 by 8 cm.
Private Collection, France
Christian and Catherine Boutonnet and Rafael Ortiz, Line Vautrin, Galerie L’Arc en Seine, Paris, 2002, p. 42-3
Patrick Mauriès, Line Vautrin: Miroirs, Galerie Chastel Marechal, Paris, 2004, pp. 11-12
The Art of Line Vautrin, Wayne Schwartz Gallery, New York, circa 2006, n.p. 'La Foule’
Laura Silverman, Line Vautrin: 100 Years of Magnitude, Maison Gerard, New York, 2013, p. 17, no. 43; p. 23, no. 56 for silvered version
Line Vautrin’s La Foule (the Crowd) box is another delightful creation in her repertoire. Her storybook figures, engraved and cast into boxes and jewelry, find a home all together on this small, cork-lined box. Though it can be taken literally — there is a single smiling face amongst a crowd of stoic frowns — it may also have alternate meanings known only to the owner, a concept that Vautrin encouraged with her bronzework.