Lot Details
Lot 215
Line Vautrin Gilt-Bronze Brooch
Signed LV.
The often-whimsical works of Line Vautrin are generally characterized by a sense of curiosity. The daughter of a bronze foundry family, Vautrin was later dubbed the 'poetess of metal' by Vogue in the 1940s. She started her career in the 1930's and after a brief period of working for Elsa Schiaparelli, Vautrin ventured into making objet de vertu, house hold and hand-held objects. She was known to inscribe or adorn her pieces with allegories, symbols and metaphors. She experimented with a wide range of materials. She worked in bronze and other metals as well as her own combination of small fragments of mirror embedded in resin, which she registered under the trademark Talosel. Vautrin's Talosel mirrors went on to be very popular and would be collected by society and intellectual elite alike. At the 1937 Exposition Universelle in Paris, Vautrin displayed an array of buttons and jewelry, which launched her on an international stage. Shortly thereafter, she opened her own shop on Rue de Berri, near the Champs-Élysées where she sold her jewelry and wares with great success. In 1969, alongside her daughter, Marie-Laure Bonnaud-Vautrin, she opened a craft school and five years before her death in 1997 she was recognized by the Société d'Encouragement aux Métiers d'Art for her contribution to developing innovative decorative techniques. In 1999 the Musée des Arts Décoratifs held a retrospective of her works. In as recently as 2015, with the very robust sale of her daughter's collection, Vautrin's work has seen a revitalized interest.
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