71. Elizabeth Garouste and Mattia Bonetti b. 1949 and b. 1953 Pair of mask-form wall lights, 1987 Patinated bronze. Each: 31 x 27.5 x 24 cm (12 1/4 x 10 7/8 x 9 1/2 in.) Upper corner of each incised B.G. Estimate £10,000-15,000 $12,900-19,400 €11,400-17,100 plus Buyers Premium and VAT*
Provenance Christian Lacroix Salons de Haute Couture, Paris, 1987 Acquired from the above by the present owner Literature Staphen Calloway, François Baudot and Gerard-Georges Lemaire, Elizabeth Garouste et Mattia Bonetti, Marseilles, 1990, pp. 195-201, 204-07, 209 Marie-France Boyer, ‘Au Revoir, Lacroix’, World of Interiors, June 2010, pp. 109-11 Clémence and Didier Krzentowski, eds., The Complete Designers’ Lights 1950-1990, 35 Years of Collecting, Paris, 2012, p. 347