Line Vautrin Rare 'Pour toi mon amour' compact, circa 1940

PROPERTY OF A GENTLEMAN COLLECTOR
Line Vautrin
Rare 'Pour toi mon amour' compact, circa 1940
Gilt bronze, mirrored glass, fabric.
1.5 cm high, 8.5 cm diameter
Impressed LINE VAUTRIN.
Provenance
David Gill Gallery, London
Private collection, Ayot Montfitchet, Hertfordshire, United Kingdom, acquired from the above, 1994
Thence by descent to the present owner

Literature
Line Vautrin and Patrick Mauriès, Line Vautrin Bijoux et Objets, London, 1992, p. 45
Ginger Moro, 'Line Vautrin, behind the sorcerer's looking glass', Echoes, vol. 9, no. 1, Barnstable, August 2000, p. 63
Christian & Catherine Boutonnet, Rafael Ortiz, Line Vautrin, exh. cat., L'Arc en Seine, Paris, 2002, p. 24
Anne Bokelberg, Line Vautrin: Poesie in Metall, exh. cat., Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, Hamburg, 2003, p. 77