Art as Jewelry as Art
Art as Jewelry as Art
From an Important European Collection
After Pablo Picasso
Visage de faune (Face of a Fawn) — 1409
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October 6, 05:13 PM GMT
Estimate
20,000 - 30,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
From an Important European Collection
After Pablo Picasso
1881 - 1973
Visage de faune (Face of a Fawn) — 1409
executed after 1988*, signed Picasso on reverse, edition 6/20, Monique Hugo goldsmith's mark, Atelier Hugo number 1409 with French assay mark
23k yellow gold Pablo Picasso medallion pendant featuring the abstracted face of a faun with original fitted wood and velvet presentation case; based on an original Madoura ceramic, sold together with (Book) Picasso I Les Joies D'artista = Picasso and Artist's Jewellery, Fundació Museu Picasso de Barcelona, Barcelona, 2021
Diameter: 2⅛ in.; 5.3 cm.
41.77 g.
Skinner Inc. Boston: Fine Jewelry, June 14, 2005 [Lot 320]
Acquired from the above by the present owner
Clare Siaud and Pierre Hugo, Bijoux d'artistes, Artist's Jewels, Hommage à François Hugo, Les Cyprès, Aix-en-Provence, 2001, p. 148, 153
Clare Finn, ‘The decorative metalwork of Pablo Picasso: his collaboration with François Hugo,’ PhD diss., Royal College of Art, 2004, p. 1156
Diana Küppers, Künstlerschmuck = objets d'art, Hirmer, Munich, 2009, p. 124
Clare Finn, ‘The Fascination of Silver, the Lure of Gold: Picasso’s Collaboration with François Hugo,’ in Emmanuel Guigon and Manon Lecaplain, Picasso I Les Joies D'artista Fundació Museu Picasso, Barcelona, 2021, p. 83