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Lot n° 271
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200 - 250
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- Lot 271
[HANDBAGS] Helen MAI PSEUDONYM OF JEANNE LARTIGUE (PARIS, AUGUST 12, 1903 - PARIS, JANUARY 1995) - Set of 6 projects of evening or day bags.
In sheets, dimensions of the supports 500 x 325 mm or 245 x 330 or 360 x 330 mm, on white, black or green canson.
1 - "Granada". Project of an evening bag in gold leather and black lace. Watercolor project, on a gray background with blue and mauve additions, in gold and black with black lace collages, the frame of the bag is jet and white. Project signed in the plate in white ink. Dimensions: 260 x 227 mm.
2.- A black gusseted pouch with a green clasp, in gouache, on orange canson. Signed in the plate. 180 x 202 mm.
3.- A red and black clasp bag, the face of the bag gouache in white with black braces, the gussets are in black. Project signed on brown canson. 140 x 152 mm.
4 - Project in white ink on black canson, some touches of color on a side of the bag. Intended for a box bag, decorated with a long saddle stitching on the front. 240 x 245 mm.
5.- "Double bag. Opposite sides". In white, green and red gouache, indications given in white ink, on black tracing paper, fixed on black canson. Signed at the bottom of the plate. 242 x 205 mm.
6.- A very nice octagonal project, of a gouache pattern on a black background and gold scrolls, scattered with large green scrolls, white foliage, rosettes or half-rosettes in turquoise and yellow tones, in the center a white bird. Signed at the top right in the plate. 235 x 230 mm.
TOGETHER 6 PROJECTS.
Helen MAI pseudonym of Jeanne LARTIGUE (Paris, August 12, 1903 - Paris, January 1995). The numbers 261 to 275 present a very beautiful selection of original gouaches for projects intended for the textile of furnishing or clothing as well as projects of handbags. The vast majority of these models are signed by her or stamped with her Parisian address on Boulevard Raspail.
Abstract and cubist painter, designer, ceramist, mosaicist, sculptor, etc.. Helen Mai, a multi-talented artist, relative of the famous photographer Jacques Henri Lartigue, has created numerous ceramic pieces, mosaics and enamels, models for the decorative arts and fashion (designs for African inspired fabrics). Many of her works have been acquired by Jean Lelong. She has exhibited at the Salon d'Automne, La Grande Chaumière and the Lucy Krogh Gallery. In the field of decoration, she is best known for having practiced encaust painting, thus rediscovering the secrets of the ancient frescoes of Pompeii or Fayoum. This technique with burnt colors, used by the great masters of Greek and Roman painting and then Byzantine. Helen Mai has rediscovered this painting, using a hot iron instead of a brush to apply a colored wax to fix it on the support, by burning it. We find different techniques mixed in the projects presented here (bags, then fabrics and papers). The same richness of inspiration in all these motifs which are nourished by nature, and also by various cultures and periods.
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