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Line Vautrin

L'anémone et L'ancolie (Anemone and Columbine) Box

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October 6, 05:41 PM GMT

Estimate

4,000 - 6,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Line Vautrin

1913 - 1997

L'anémone et L'ancolie (Anemone and Columbine) Box


circa 1950, stamped LINE VAUTRIN, title in poem carved on front (see note)

gilded bronze box with original cork-lined interior

4⁄10 by 2 3⁄10 by 1¾ in.; 1.08 by 5.72 by 4.52 cm.

Private Collection, France

Christian et Catherine Boutonnet and Rafaël Ortiz, Line Vautrin: Exposition du 6 Decembre 2002 au 31 Janvier 2003, L’Arc en Seine, Paris, 2002, p. 12-13

Anne Bokelberg, Line Vautrin: Poesie in Metall, Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, Hamburg, 2003, p. 77, no. 6

Patrick Mauriès, Line Vautrin: Miroirs, Galerie Chastel Marechal, Paris, 2004, p. 79 for similar objects

Paris, Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Secret de Bijoux: Line Vautrin, 1999 for similar example

Paris, L’Arc en Seine, Line Vautrin, 2002 – 2003

Hamburg, Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, Line Vautrin: Poesie in Metall, 2003

New York, Maison Gerard, Line Vautrin: 100 Years of Magnitude, 2013 for similar example

The inscription on the cover of Line Vautrin’s L'anémone et L'ancolie (Anemone and Columbine) Box is an excerpt from the wistful poem ‘Clotilde’ by Guillaume Apollinaire (1880-1918): L'anémone et l'ancolie / Anemone and columbine ont poussé dans le jardin / Opened in gardens où dort la mélancolie / Where gloom has lain entre l'amour et le dédain / Between love and disdain


When Vogue called the artist a ‘poetess of metal’ in 1948, it was tongue-in-cheek — and yet absolutely correct. It is a bittersweet yet elegant little box that immortalizes a short, wistful poem.