Lucille Sévin was a sculptor and pupil of the sculptor François-Léon Sicard (1862-1934). She was artistically active from 1920 to 1940. She made numerous chryselephantine sculptures in the Art Deco style , using materials such as bronze (often silvered or gilded) and ivory. Her work was artfully implemented and distributed by Éditeur d’art Edmond Etling .
Lucile Sévin also worked with glass , ceramics and porcelain . Her sculptures of dancers made of milky frosted, iridescent glass such as Isadora from 1925 were made for Etling in a glassworks in Choisy-le-Roi . Her glassworks were representative of the “Etling style”; For a time Sévin was art director of the company. Her husband, the sculptor Jean Théodore Delabassé, also worked for Etling.
Etling was a retail shop in Paris during the 1920’s and 30’s and had a major effect on the style of the time and commissioned a large number of statuettes and vessels in opalescent pressed glass including those by Lucile Sévin.
Below are some examples and price guides of Lucille Sevin’s glass mascots including an Isadora mascot and lady with a lamb.
LUCILLE SEVIN (FRENCH, ACTIVE 1920-1930S) FOR ETLING ‘Isadora’: An Art Deco Opalescent Glass Statue/Car Mascot, circa 1930 opalescent glass, mould-blown, and mounted on a chrome metal base 21cm high, mould marks ‘ETLING FRANCE 50’
Sold for £ 1,530 inc. premium at Bonham’s in 2020
Frosted Opalescent Glass Figure, France, Circa 1925. Modeled as a nude woman holding a lamb. Marked – Etling France
Sold for $850 at Pasarel in 2020
