- Lot 274

Lot n° 274
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- Lot 274
[HANDBAGS] Helen MAI PSEUDONYM OF JEANNE LARTIGUE (PARIS, AUGUST 12, 1903 - PARIS, JANUARY 1995) - Set of 5 bag projects: 1 summer bag, 1 day clutch, 1 bag and 2 evening clutches. In sheets. On black, white or blue-gray canson. Dimensions of the supports : 500 x 325 mm. 1 - "Sambor". Project of a summer bag in white canvas with bamboo handle. Drawn on brick canson, placed on a black canson support. Signed at the bottom right. Title and annotations in white ink. 210 x 250 mm. 2.- "Aswan". A superb cover for which Helen Mai has chosen blue crocodile, applied here on grey canson; the drawing also shows the lining. 275 x 255 mm. Title and annotations in black ink in the margin. 3 - Sketch of a bag with a metal clasp and a handle turned to quilt. Draft in white ink with some yellow highlights. Project signed. 80 x 175 mm. 4 & 5 - 2 different projects of black pockets, gouache on blue-grey or light tan canson. Signed projects. 175 x 215 and 184 x 198 mm. SET OF 5 PROJECTS. Helen MAI pseudonym of Jeanne LARTIGUE (Paris, August 12, 1903 - Paris, January 1995). The 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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