Description
Lot of 16 jewelry drawings on tracing paper in pencil enhanced with polychrome gouache, including drawings of spray brooches adorned with red, blue and green stones, diamond bouquet brooches, and a brooch in the spirit of Van Cleef & Arpels' Normandie collection. Paul TOUZET, a designer and jeweler active from the 1940s to the 1970s, worked in the family tradition for VAN CLEEF & ARPELS, BOUCHERON and STERLE. He is also said to have worked with Georges BRAQUE and Jean COCTEAU on their jewelry. His creations are typical of French and Parisian jewelry production during the Trente Glorieuses. Expert: Alexandre Léger.
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Lot of 16 jewelry drawings on tracing paper in pencil enhanced with polychrome gouache, including drawings of spray brooches adorned with red, blue and green stones, diamond bouquet brooches, and a brooch in the spirit of Van Cleef & Arpels' Normandie collection. Paul TOUZET, a designer and jeweler active from the 1940s to the 1970s, worked in the family tradition for VAN CLEEF & ARPELS, BOUCHERON and STERLE. He is also said to have worked with Georges BRAQUE and Jean COCTEAU on their jewelry. His creations are typical of French and Parisian jewelry production during the Trente Glorieuses. Expert: Alexandre Léger.
