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EAST MORICHES, N.Y. – French designer Line Vautrin (1913-1997) began her career selling her cast metal jewelry door-to-door. However, by the Fifties she had become the epitome of Parisian neo-romantic chic with a progressive atelier in the Marais and an upmarket boutique on the rue du Faubourg Saint-Honoré. Vogue called her “the poetess of metal.”

Vautrin is particularly well known for her Petit Roi Soleil mirrors – made during the 1950s-70s in a material she called talosel, which comprised layers of cellulose acetate that she carved, gouged, molded and encrusted with colored mirrored glass. Now hugely popular, they have made some very substantial sums in specialist 20th-century designs sales in Paris and New York.

Three of these dominated the sale at South Bay Auctions on October 25, making estimate-stomping sums.

A relatively large 22in convex mirror sailed past a $5,000 top estimate to hammer for $78,000 and sell for $97,500 with buyer’s premium, while a similar pair measuring 12in each hammered for $66,000, or $82,500 with buyer’s premium. All three pieces had an incised signature and Vautrin’s ROI tag.

The other big winners at the South Bay sale were works by the Abstract Expressionist artist Mary Lee Abbott (1921-2019) and pieces by the German American mid-century designer Vladimir Kagan (1927-2016).

Today Abbott’s name rarely appears in the same bracket as Jackson Pollock or Willem de Kooning, but in the late 1940s and 1950s, she was part of the inner circle of the New York School. One of only three women included in ‘The Artist’s Club’ that met regularly at the Cedar Tavern in Greenwich Village, she later recalled: “Generally speaking, the women at the Club weren’t treated differently than anyone else — an artist was an artist. Sometimes you might get treated like a girl because you were pretty. I was chosen to collect the dues and go buy the booze because I was pretty and the guys would pay up if I asked them to. Other times you had to be tough to be taken seriously,” Abbott said.

The three untitled and unframed abstract works on paper offered in the October 25 auction dated from the 1950s and had been acquired directly from the artist. All were signed in pencil and featured the bright colors that Abbott said were inspired by nature, and particularly, the time she had spent traveling in the Caribbean. They sold at hammer prices between $9,200 ($11,500 with buyer’s premium) and $20,000 ($25,000 with buyer’s premium).

Four works by Vladimir Kagan originated from the same source. They included an example of the Serpentine sofa that – as one of the first curved sofas on the market – was Kagan’s breakthrough piece, leading to commissions for stars such as Marilyn Monroe and Gary Cooper. The Serpentine sofa was designed circa 1952 and manufactured by Kagan-Drefuss at Long Island City, New York. The example presented, in cream leather upholstery, hammered for $8,200, or $10,250 with buyer’s premium, selling to an internet bidder.

Also sold via the LiveAuctioneers platform was an example of Kagan’s Crescent coffee table with a walnut frame and a top made from bronze and orange to black Venetian glass tiles (which hammered for $9,200 and sold for $11,500 with buyer’s premium); and also a walnut and cream linen upholstered Contour rocking chair and matching foot stool (which hammered for $5,600 and sold for $7,000 with buyer’s premium).
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Line Vautrin Boudoir convex mirror, which sold for $78,000 ($97,500 with buyer’s premium) at South Bay Auctions.
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Mary Abbott abstract, which sold for $9,200 ($11,500 with buyer’s premium) at South Bay Auctions.
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Mary Abbott abstract, which sold for $12,500 ($15,625 with buyer’s premium) at South Bay Auctions.
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Mary Abbott abstract, which sold for $20,000 ($25,000 with buyer’s premium) at South Bay Auctions.
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Vladimir Kagan Serpentine upholstered sofa, which sold for $8,200 ($10,250 with buyer’s premium) at South Bay Auctions.
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Vladimir Kagan Crescent coffee table, which sold for $9,200 ($11,500 with buyer’s premium) at South Bay Auctions.
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Vladimir Kagan sculpted walnut two-position rocking chair and ottoman, which sold for $5,600 ($7,000 with buyer’s premium) at South Bay Auctions.
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