Art as Jewelry as Art
Art as Jewelry as Art
From an Important European Collection
Georges Braque
Zéphyr
Lot Closed
October 6, 05:32 PM GMT
Estimate
5,000 - 7,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
From an Important European Collection
Georges Braque
1882 - 1963
Zéphyr
1963, signed B de B
18k white gold, pavé-set diamond bird ring with ruby collet
eye from limited edition of 8; with original box
Motif: 1¼ by 1 in.; 3.2 cm by 2.5 cm
Current size: 3¾ (original size: 6½)
From an Important European Collection
Georges Braque: Les Metamorphoses, May 18, 1999, Etude Tajan, Paris, 1999, lot 80, p. 34, similar ring
Georges Braque: ‘Les Métamorphoses,’ Millon & Associés, Paris, 2006, p. 46
Georges Braque’s diamond-paved Zéphyr ring depicts a bird wheeling around in the sky, forever in flight, with one eye of ruby. In collaboration with the lapidarist Baron Heger de Loewenfeld, he translated drawings and gouaches based on Greek mythology into wearable art and jewelry. The Greek god Zephyrus is a gentle soul, a herald of spring and the lord of the west winds. Braque may have seen a happy message in his story of bleak winter being eventually tempered by the warmth and new growth of spring.