VALENTINE SCHLEGEL (1925-2021) Untitled, unique piece designed and created in 1983 for the Butte-aux-Cailles (Paris XIII) home of Nicole Zand (1933-2024), journalist, art critic and literary critic at Le Monde (from 1962). Corner mantel-sculpture; integrating three parts forming mosaic-covered shelves. Staff (plaster and filasse). Created by Valentine Shlegel in collaboration with Frédéric Sichel-Dulong. Signed and dated V. SCHLEGEL - SICHEL-DULONG 1983, engraved on a free-standing terracotta medallion, originally integrated into the bottom left-hand corner of the mantelpiece in the wall, which will be given to the purchaser. Overall dimensions: Height: 500cm approx. - Hypotenuse: 500cm approx. Hearth: Height: 88cm - Length: 108cm - Depth: 88cm Important note: This work is sold by designation, dismantled for this sale and cut into 39 pieces by Frédéric Sichel-Dulong (who had himself assembled it with Valentine Schlegel in Nicole Zand's Butte-aux-Cailles house). A cutting plan of the numbered elements can be supplied to the buyer. Provenance: Our work created in 1983 for the house of Nicole Zand (1933-2024) - journalist, literary critic and art critic for Le Monde (from 1962), Libération and L'Écho de la mode - located in Butte-aux-Cailles, Paris XIII, and remained in situ until it was dismantled in December 2025 for this sale. Please note A series of prints, based on photographs taken in 1983, showing the completed building site, Valentine Schlegel's first fire and Frédéric Sischel-Dulong standing next to the fireplace, will be given to the buyer. Related material archive: Classic Sale - Paintings, Furniture and Works of Art - Me Jean-Marc Delvaux, May 16, 2025, Hôtel Drouot, Paris. The plaster model of our fireplace sculpture sold under number 114. Bibliography: - Hélène Bertin - Valentine Schlegel: je dors, je travaille - Coédition future and Centre d'Art Contemporain de Brétigny, 2017. Our work reproduced in situ on page 222. - Valentine Schlegel, Tu m'accompagneas à la plage? - Visitor's guide to the exhibition organized at the Centre régional d'art contemporain Occitanie (CRAC), Sète (June 22 - September 29, 2019). Our work reproduced in situ on page 10. - Valentine Schlegel, l'art pour quotidien - Catalogue of the exhibition organized at the Musée Fabre, Montpellier (May 12 - September 17, 2023), Éditions Snoeck/Musée Fabre, Gand/Montpellier, 2023. Our work reproduced in situ on page 101. Related literature: - Yvonne Brunhammer -Le Feu. Valentine Schlegel's fireplaces in La Maison Française - N° 163, December 1962 - January 1963. Other fireplace sculptures by Valentine Schlegel reproduced on pages 138 to 141. - Yvonne Brunhammer - Valentine Schlegel - Cheminées, sculptures à vivre - 1964-1975 - Catalogue of the exhibition held at Galerie La Demeure, Paris (June 3 - 29, 1975), Éditions de la galerie, Paris, 1975. Other fireplace-sculptures by Valentine Schlegel reproduced in the book. - Yvonne Brunhammer - Murs-sculptures. Valentine Schlegel, in L'Œil - N° 239, June 1975. Other fireplace-sculptures by Valentine Schlegel reproduced on pages 68 to 71.