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GABRIELLA LA TORRE (1894–1976)
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GABRIELLA LA TORRE (1894–1976)
See original version (French)
Estimate €200 - €300
Voluntary lot
Description
GABRIELLA LA TORRE (1894–1976)
Set of 14 bird designs or sketches, on tracing paper mounted on paper, unsigned, some with certificates
Approx. 28 x 22 cm
Included is a framed piece comprising 4 designs or sketches of birds on tracing paper.
Total frame dimensions: 105 x 45 cm
(a few creases and marks)
Source pieces shared with lots 21 and 22; variations in lots 23 to 28
Provenance:
The artist’s family collection. Assembled at the instigation of Fabrizio La Torre, son of Gabriella La Torre, this collection reflects a desire to reconstruct a body of work that brings together the artist’s archives and pieces produced by Hermès.
Gabriella La Torre (Rome, 1894–1976) was a porcelain painter. Over several decades, she developed a personal body of work fuelled in particular by her taste for the decorative arts and antique porcelain, the designs of which she studied and collected.
From 1957 onwards, she collaborated with Hermès, for whom she created numerous designs that gave rise to silk scarves, ready-to-wear garments and porcelain objects. Her creative vision gave rise to patterns such as ‘Insects’, ‘Flowers and Braids’, ‘Oranges and Lemons’, ‘Cherries’, ‘Roosters’ and ‘Old China’.
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