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Guidette Carbonell Luminous Bird
Guidette Carbonell, Oiseau Lumineux, 1948
Guidette Carbonell, Oiseau Lumineux, 1948

Guidette Carbonell French, 1910-2008

Oiseau Lumineux, 1948
Light sculpture executed in black and white enamel ceramics. Four original ropes attached to ceramic cache bélière. Lighting system inside.
Bronze branch with plaster finish especially designed and executed by sculptor, Libor David in 2022
Length: 18.5 in.
Width: 14.5 in.
Height: 9.8 in.
Total height w. ropes: 26 in.

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We would like to thank Ms. Karine Lacquemant from “Musée des Arts Décoratifs de Paris” for confirming the authenticity of this work.

We would like to thank Ms. Karine Lacquemant from “Musée des Arts Décoratifs de Paris” for confirming the authenticity of this work.

Provenance

Film director and art patron Madame Suzanne Lipinska.

The work was acquired in 1956 (most likely through the designer Jacques Adnet) for her property “Le Moulin d’Andé” an important post-war art center.

Exhibitions

Les oiseaux lumineux de Guidette Carbonell, Galerie Jeanne Bucher, 53 rue de seine 1949

Salon des arts ménagers, 1952.

Publications

Our example appears in the exhibition catalog of the “Salon des arts ménagers”, 1952.

Appears in:  Art et Décoration, Paris 1951.

 Guidette Carbonell, Céramiques et tapisseries by Karine Lacquemant and Frédéric Bodet, Editions Norma 2007 p.68 and p.69.

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