Sculpture anthropomorphe (anthropomorphic sculpture)

Trained at the Beaux-arts in Paris from 1940 to 1944, where she met Robert-Henri Schneider (1917-2000), Maté Lapierre joined the Schneider crystal factory in Epinay-sur-Seine in 1953 to create models made in small quantities. series. Following the fire which devastated the establishment and thanks to the support of the glassmaker André Thuret (1898-1964), she nevertheless continued her activity as a model maker within the Cristallerie de Courbevoie from 1960 to 1967, where she also created during in his free time some unique pieces, whose style is similar to the free forms hot modeled at the Cristallerie Daum during the same period. However, his sculptures are distinguished by cut sides and sharp edges. Made around 1962, this abstract and anthropomorphic sculpture was presented in the exhibitions of the Lyon association Forme et Muraux in the early 1970s. Kept for a long time by its president, the coppersmith Maurice Perrier, the work was returned to Maté Lapierre in 2008, before the latter offered it to the Goms museum in 2013.