Lot 29
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'VOILÉE MAINS JOINTES', A RARE OPALESCENT MOLDED GLASS STATUE

Details
'VOILÉE MAINS JOINTES', A RARE OPALESCENT MOLDED GLASS STATUE
BY RENE LALIQUE, MODEL INTRODUCED IN 1919

Molded as a draped figure, her hands clasped under her face, inscribed R. LALIQUE FRANCE
11in. (27.5cm.) high

Lot Essay

This statue is extremely rare in the opalescent version

cf. Felix Marcilhac, R. Lalique, Catalogue raisonne de l'oeuvre de verr, Les editions de L'Amateur, Paris, p.398, no.828;
René Lalique exhibition catalogue, Odakyu Museum, Tokyo, 28 July-15 August 1993, p.130