RENÉ LALIQUE (1860-1945) Four peacocks on a branch, circa 1902-03 Preparatory drawing for a sponsor. Gouache, watercolor, India ink on BFK de Rives paper. Annotated Trees translucent enamel - Peacocks crystal in the upper right corner. 28 x 21,7 cm Provenance : Family of the artist. Bibliography : Sigrid Barten - René Lalique, Schmuck und Objets d'art, 1890-1910 - Monographie und Werkkatalog - Prestel Verlag, Munich, 1977. Our drawing is reproduced as number 40 on page 109. Related work and literature: Our drawing to be compared with the brooch Four peacocks on a pine branch kept in the Lalique Museum, Hakone, Japan, under inventory number 655. - Yvonne Brunhammer - The Collection of Lalique Museum, Hakone - Hakone, Lalique Museum, 2005. The brooch reproduced on page 129. - René Lalique : bijoux d'exception - 1890-1912 - Catalogue of the exhibition organized at the Musée du Luxembourg, Paris (March 7 - July 29, 2007), Skira, Paris, 2007. The brooch exhibited at this event described on page 136.