Art as Jewelry as Art
Art as Jewelry as Art
From an Important European Collection
After Pablo Picasso
Visage aux mains (Face with Hands) — 1407
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October 6, 05:23 PM GMT
Estimate
15,000 - 20,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
From an Important European Collection
After Pablo Picasso
1881 - 1973
Visage aux mains (Face with Hands) — 1407
executed after 1988*, stamped Picasso on reverse, edition 6/20, Monique Hugo goldsmith's mark, Atelier Hugo number 1407, French assay mark
23k yellow gold Pablo Picasso medallion pendant featuring a face with hands; with wooden box; based on an original Madoura ceramic
Diameter: 2⅛ in.; 5.2 cm.
36.75 g.
Skinner Inc. Boston, Fine Jewelry, September 18, 2007, [Lot 181]
Clare Siaud and Pierre Hugo, Bijoux d’artistes, Artist’s Jewels, Hommage à François Hugo, Les Cyprès, Aix-en-Provence, 2001, p. 153
Clare Finn, ‘The decorative metalwork of Pablo Picasso: his collaboration with François Hugo,’ PhD diss., Royal College of Art, 2004, p. 1156