Sculpture anthropomorphe (Anthropomorphic sculpture)

Maté Lapierre studied at the Paris School of Fine Arts from 1940 to 1944, where she met Robert-Henri Schneider (1917-2000). In 1953 she began working at the Schneider crystalworks, in Epinay-sur-Seine, to create models that would be produced in limited series. After the fire that destroyed this company and thanks to André Thuret, another glassmaker who supported her, she was able to continue her activity as a modelist at Courbevoie Crystalworks from 1960 to 1967, where she also produced a few unique objects during her free time. The style of these objects resembles those of the hot-modelled objects produced at Daum Crystalworks during the same era. Nonetheless, her sculptures differ with their cut and sharp edges. Created around 1962, this abstract and anthropomorphic sculpture was presented in the exhibitions of the Forme et Muraux association in Lyon, at the beginning of the 1970s. Held for a long time by its president, Maurice Perrier, a brasier, this sculpture was returned to Maté Lapierre in 2008.  In 2013 she donated it to our Conches Glass Museum.