Lot 111
111
'FEMME AILEE', AN IMPORTANT BRONZE FIGURE WITH FLORAL HEADRESS
'FEMME AILEE', AN IMPORTANT BRONZE FIGURE WITH FLORAL HEADRESS

RENE LALIQUE FOR THE EXPOSITION UNIVERSELLE, PARIS, 1900

Details
'FEMME AILEE', AN IMPORTANT BRONZE FIGURE WITH FLORAL HEADRESS
Rene Lalique for the Exposition Universelle, Paris, 1900
39in. (103cm.) high, 31in. (78.7cm.) wide, 24in. (61cm.) deep
Literature
Yvonne Brunhammer, ed., The Jewels of Lalique, 1998, p. 31, illustrates this figure, catalogue number 172.
Sale room notice
This figure is not the example that was included in the Cooper-Hewitt Museum's exhibition The Jewels of Lalique.

Lot Essay

cf. Yvonne Brunhammer, ed., The Jewels of Lalique, 1998, p. 31, cat. no. 172 illustrates this model; The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Rene Lalique (1860-1945), 1992, pp. 270-271 for other Butterfly Women sculptures from Lalique's Paris Exposition display. See also Sigrid Barten, Ren Lalique, Schmuck und Objets d'art 1890-1910, 1977, pp. 580-581 showing these bronzes in situ.