Iolas-Galerie, Zomboulakis, Athens

Acquired from above by present owner

Claude and François-Xavier Lalanne, Les Lalanne, Christ✤ian Fayt Art Gallery, Knokke-Heist, n.🀅 27 for similar cast

Daniel Abadie, Lalanne(s): The Monograph, Flammarion, Paris, 2008, p. 69 for ❀earlier exa൲mple

Louisa Guinness, Art as Jewelry: From Calder to Kapoor, ACC Art B♏ooks, Suffolk, 2018,💟 p. 79 for earlier example

Claude Lalanne worked with Greek jeweler Zolotas to create a series of lip necklaces for which this is an artist's proof. Mouths and lips were a recurring motif in her sculpture and jewelry and she would use molds made from the mouths of her friends and clients to add apertures to jewels or sculptures like her famous Pomme Bouche. Her playful works are memorable, interesting, and the conversion of her iconic sculpture and statuary into wearable jewelry was an importan꧒t step in her career.