European and Japanese artists
Although the 300-lot auction focuses on French bébés and German art characters
centering on important French dolls from the most illustrious makers
a veritable kaleidoscope whose patterns and designs and colors will vary through the eye of each and every collector who views these dolls
“ROSALIE - THE LANDMARK ROSALIE WHYEL MUSEUM OF DOLL ART, PART TWO” SOFTBOUND BOOK - JANUARY 11-12, 2025 Christian Bailley European and Japanese artistsJanuary 11 12, 2025 at Theriault's Gallery in Annapolis, Maryland. Rosalie Whyel spent her collecting years in the advocacy of the doll as an art form, indeed, even naming her justly celebrated museum in Bellevue, Washington as The Rosalie Whyel Museum of Doll Art. It was not simply a museum of dolls, but, boldly, a Museum of Doll Art. Through her leadership, many collectors came to realize that the sculpture and design of a doll was an art form as