AN ENCHANTED CHRISTMAS WITH LALIQUE - Part I
A tribute to the inventor of modern jewelry: a selection of jewelry and Haute Joaillerie pieces from the Maison Lalique
Wednesday, December 18, 2024
Salle Grange Batelière
17, rue Grange Batelière - 75009 Paris
Sale broadcast live on drouot.com, interencheres.com
Public viewing :
Monday December 16, 11am - 6pm
Tuesday, December 17, 11am - 6pm
Wednesday, December 18, 11am - 1pm
Salle Grange Batelière
17, rue Grange Batelière - 75009 Paris
Delivery of lots by appointment :
- Friday, December 20, 9am - 6pm
- Saturday, December 21st, 9am - 12pm
- Monday, December 23rd, 9am - 6pm
Salle Grange Batelière
17, rue Grange Batelière - 75009 Paris
Prior appointment only: we will send you an e-mail with all the necessary information as soon as your auction slip has been paid.
LALIQUE, TIMELESS SINCE 1888
For over a century, Lalique has been synonymous with luxury, creativity and French savoir-faire. Today, Lalique shines throughout the world as a resolutely timeless House of luxury and the art of living.
First there was René Lalique (1860-1945), the artist who revolutionized jewelry, creating in the 1880s those famous "Art Nouveau" jewels, veritable works of art that from then on would be fought over by museums and collectors alike.
An Art Deco glassmaker of genius and pioneer of the Art Nouveau movement, René Lalique was an eclectic creator, responsible for the technological and commercial revolution that is perfume packaging as it is still conceived today, a revolution begun in 1905 alongside François Coty.
He was also, according to Colette, the man behind the "Fontaine Merveilleuse" at the Exposition Internationale des Arts Décoratifs in Paris in 1925, the man who decorated several Pullman carriages on the Orient Express, and the first-class dining room on the Normandie liner, he who designed glass doors sculpted with winged goddesses for the palace of Japanese Imperial Prince Asaka Yasuhiko, now the Metropolitan Teien Art Museum in Tokyo, he who dared to adorn the luxurious automobiles of the Roaring Twenties with glass mascots.
His imagination produced an immense and highly diversified body of work: goblets, vases, statuettes, flasks... made in his workshops in Combs-la-Ville, near Paris, but above all in Wingen-sur-Moder in Alsace, which came into operation in 1922.
In his work with materials, his style was essentially expressed by what would become the famous contrast between transparent glass and satin-finished glass. He sometimes added a patina, enamel or coloring in the mass. The lines could be geometric, but always softened by naturalistic sculptures of plants, animals or women.
On the eve of the 80th anniversary of René Lalique's death, this auction is an opportunity to celebrate the legacy of a man who devoted his life to the pursuit of Beauty: a selection of 77 exceptional pieces to pay tribute to this quest for perfection, which resulted in the invention of modern Jewellery.
Sales manager:
Elsa JOLY-MALHOMME
elsa.joly-malhomme@ader-ep.com
For further information, please contact
Inès del VALLE
ines.delvalle@ader-ep.com
ADER Entreprises & Patrimoine - Maison de Ventes aux Enchères - Agrément 142-2019 - 6 rue Picot - Paris 16e - Tél : 01 83 64 11 70
