The hinged bangle of abstract design, inner circumference approximately 150mm, signed AP, French assay and maker's marks.

Stamped with French assay marks for 18 carat golf and French maker's marks of P and T within a lozenge, signed AP & RTLVRIAL and numbered 12/30. Total weight approximately 151 grams. Minor abrasions consistent with wear, overall good condition.
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Alicia Penalba (1913-1982) was from Buenos Aires, Argentina and studied there at the School of Fine Arts.  She relocated to Paris in 1948 and moved away from the more traditional medium of painting to work entirely with sculpture.  For three years she worked alongside Ossip Zadkine (1890-1967) in his workshop.  Zadkine, originally from Belarus, came to Paris in 1914 and was highly involved with the Cubist Movement (1914-1925).  Penalba was very much influenced by this structural, abstract and avant-garde art form.