- Lot 272

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- Lot 272
[HANDBAGS] Helen MAI PSEUDONYM OF JEANNE LARTIGUE (PARIS, AUGUST 12, 1903 - PARIS, JANUARY 1995) - Set of 6 bag projects: 2 summer bags, 1 day folding bag and 3 evening bags. In sheets on canson, black, or grey-blue. Dimensions of the supports: 500 x 325 mm. 1.- "Beau Fixe". "White and black wickerwork on blue plastic canvas ... median opening, ring and wickerwork handle". Project signed on yellow canson, collage of a piece of plastic gouache in blue, white and black, the ring and handle painted in black on the paper. At the top left, the artist has painted a small jewelry box for the bag. 280 x 270 mm. Delightfully vintage project. 2 - A trapezoidal pouch, gouache on wood colored canson, in black, gold and white tones. Project signed in the lower right corner. 170 x 215 mm. Small tear at the top of the support. 3 - "Duguesclin" - Amazing project of a "box" bag for the city or the country. It is made of wood, plastic or leather, decorated with chains and studs in black or gold iron. The project was composed with rolled wood and paper collages, placed on grey canson. Annotations and title in black ink. 222 x 210 mm. 4.- Sketch, on black canson, in white color with some highlights of color for a folding bag in box. Signed at the bottom right. 272 x 230 mm. 5 & 6 - 2 projects of clutches or evening bags. One on brown canson, the other on blue-grey canson. Signed projects. 195 x 200 & 185 x 216 mm. SET OF 6 PROJECTS. Helen MAI pseudonym of Jeanne LARTIGUE (Paris, August 12, 1903 - Paris, January 1995). Numbers 261 to 275 present a very nice 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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