Important Design

Valentine Schlegel

Escargot single-flower vase and vase

Artist's Resale Right

Auction Closed

November 25, 06:14 PM GMT

Estimate

6,000 - 8,000 EUR

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Description

Valentine Schlegel

Escargot single-flower vase and vase

The single-flower vase designed circa 1960, the vase created in 2004

Terracotta

Signed V. Schlegel on the underside of each and dated 2004 on the underside of the vase

Escargot single-flower vase : 23 x 13 x 12 cm ; 9 x 5 x 4 ½ in.

Vase : 13,5 x 22 x 18 cm ; 5 ¼ x 8 ⅝ x 7 ⅛ in.

Rémy Le Fur, Paris, Yvonne Brunhammer and Valentine Schlegel collection, 30 June 2022, lot 184, for the vase

Piasa, Paris, 6 October 2022, lot 71, for the single-flower vase

Acquired from the above by the present owner

Hélène Bertin, Valentine Schlegel, Je dors, je travaille, Brétigny, 2017, p. 41, reproduced

Valentine Schlegel, l’art pour quotidien, exhibition catalogue, Musée Fabre, Montpellier, 12 May - 17 September 2023, p. 33 and 34

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