FIGURES AND FACES/ THE ART OF JEWELRY

In the nineteenth century, René Lalique, Alphonse Fouquet, and the Maison Vever produced brooches and necklaces that embodied elegan t sophistication and technical brilliance, while in the twentieth century, artists such as Pablo Picasso and Alberto Giacometti join ed jewelers like Jean Lurçat, Line Vautrin, and Claude Lalanne in creating works that interpret the body in deeply personal ways.