Cigarette Case. Designer: Pierre Legrain (French, Levallois-Perret 1889-1929 Paris). Dimensions: 3 1/8 x 2 1/2 x 1 1/8in. (7.9 x 6.4 x 2.9cm). Date: ca. 1925.Legrain understood the principals and aesthetics of both modern andAfrican art to a degree that most other designers of the period did not--perhaps the result of spending considerable time with his patron, thecouturier Jacques Doucet, and his collection (which included Picasso'smasterpiece Les Demoiselles d'Avignon, several important Cubist works,and a group of African sculptures). These cigarette cases employ thesame vocabulary as his book bindings, only in miniature. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

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Cigarette Case. Designer: Pierre Legrain (French, Levallois-Perret 1889-1929 Paris). Dimensions: 3 1/8 x 2 1/2 x 1 1/8in. (7.9 x 6.4 x 2.9cm). Date: ca. 1925.Legrain understood the principals and aesthetics of both modern andAfrican art to a degree that most other designers of the period did not--perhaps the result of spending considerable time with his patron, thecouturier Jacques Doucet, and his collection (which included Picasso'smasterpiece Les Demoiselles d'Avignon, several important Cubist works,and a group of African sculptures). These cigarette cases employ thesame vocabulary as his book bindings, only in miniature. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

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