Brass sculpture for Roger & Gallet, Janine Janet (1913-2000), 1966
- Date
- 1966
- Edition
- Unique piece
- Provenance
- Made for the Roger & Gallet shop windows, Faubourg Saint-Honoré, Paris
On view at the showroom, 1 rue des Bons Enfants, Marché L'Usine, stand 3, 93400 Saint-Ouen. Delivery in France and worldwide.
Brass display sculpture, unique piece
1966
Unique piece
Provenance: made for the Roger & Gallet shop windows, Faubourg Saint-Honoré, Paris
Loss to the neck
Display sculpture created for the Roger & Gallet shop windows, inspired by Baudelaire’s poem Correspondances, in which the shape of the violin becomes a poetic, metamorphosed motif.
Biographical notes
Born on Réunion in 1913 and trained at the Beaux-Arts in Toulouse and Paris, Janine Janet created window displays from the 1940s for Jacques Fath, Christian Dior, Givenchy and above all Balenciaga. For Jean Cocteau she designed costumes and masks for Le Testament d’Orphée (1960). Her baroque world, blending nature and precious materials, is represented at the Musée des Arts Décoratifs in Paris.
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