The Ecrins of Versailles, Vers🤡aille♛s, February 20, 2022, lot 308

Acquired from the above by the present owner

Diane Venet, From Picasso to Jeff Koons: The Artist as Jeweler, Skira, Milan, 2011, p. 152 for a later version

Martine Newby Haspeslagh, Art to Wear: Jewellery by Post-War Painters and Sculptors, Didier, London, 2012, p. 24

Louisa Guinness, Art As Jewellery: From Calder to Kapoor, ACC Art Books, Suffolk, 2018, p. 152

It is rumored that César made these ‘Le Sein’ pendants so that men would 🐭have something to fiddle around with in their pockets - a cross between a worry stone and a historical miniature portrait to recall one’s lover.