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AN ART NOUVEAU "LA PENSEE" BROOCH, BY RENE LALIQUE
Designed as a pale blue and gold enamel oval plaque depicting a woman's pensive face, with a white and pink guilloché enamel pansy resting on her forehead, extending gold enamel rays, to the dark blue enamel foliate outer edges, within a rose-cut diamond frame, circa 1900, with French importation mark
Signed Lalique for René Lalique
Designed as a pale blue and gold enamel oval plaque depicting a woman's pensive face, with a white and pink guilloché enamel pansy resting on her forehead, extending gold enamel rays, to the dark blue enamel foliate outer edges, within a rose-cut diamond frame, circa 1900, with French importation mark
Signed Lalique for René Lalique
Literature
Sigrid Barten, René Lalique, Schmuck und Objets d'art 1890-1910, Prestel-Verlag, Munich, 1977, no. 99
Exhibited
René Lalique 1860-1945, Sogo Museum of Art Yokohama 26 August - 29 October 2000; Tokyo Metropolitan Teien Art Museum, 11 November 2000 - 4 February 2001; National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, 14 February - 15 April 2001, exhibition catalogue, page 73
The Jewels of Lalique, Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, Smithsonian Institution, New York, 3 February - 12 April 1998; International Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C., 15 May - 16 August 1998; and Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, 13 September 1998 - 10 January 1999, exhibition catalogue, no. 40
Art Nouveau Belgium/France, Institute for the Arts, Rice University, Houston, 26 March - 27 June, 1976, exhibition catalogue, fig. 405
The Jewels of Lalique, Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, Smithsonian Institution, New York, 3 February - 12 April 1998; International Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C., 15 May - 16 August 1998; and Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, 13 September 1998 - 10 January 1999, exhibition catalogue, no. 40
Art Nouveau Belgium/France, Institute for the Arts, Rice University, Houston, 26 March - 27 June, 1976, exhibition catalogue, fig. 405