It had been a long time since Lalique had been in the spotlight with a large collection in Paris!
We remember the sale of the Garden Museum (Japan), which totaled nearly 7 million euros, in 2013, at Sotheby's, with a record of nearly 697,000 euros for a "Butterflies and bat" pocket watch.
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from the years 1889-1900.
Since then, the master glassmaker and jeweler, a key figure in Art Nouveau, has only made occasional appearances as in 2017, at Christie's, with around forty jewels from the Parisian merchant, the late Michel Périnet, a great pioneer of jewelry. Art Nouveau.
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Here is Lalique again with 39 unpublished pieces, on December 17, under the hammer of Sotheby's, for an estimate of 2.4 to 4.5 million euros.
And a famous pedigree: that of Claude Henri Sorbac, renowned amateur who died in March 2021 in his 100th year.
His collection has been the subject of several major exhibitions in institutions as prestigious as ...
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