Véronique GUERRIERI (born 1954). Meditating baby. Orange-lacquered resin. Signed and numbered 2/8 on back. Height Height : 40 cm Note: born in Boulogne-Billancourt, with a highly versatile training, she studied architecture at the Beaux-arts and then at the Ecole du Louvre, before becoming an exhibition organizer for international artists. In 1987, she left Paris to settle in Nice, where she met many artists, including Miotte, César and Arman, for whom she negotiated her 32-metre-high Monument de la Paix in Beirut. She also made friends with Klasen, Rancillac, Pierre Restany and Morio Matsui, a Japanese painter who invited her to exhibit with him in China. From 1994 onwards, she concentrated on her own creations, exhibiting as an artist in the USA, France, China and Japan. She made a name for herself with her resin sculptures on the theme of the single child, which proved a great success in Shanghai. She was awarded the Pritzker Architecture Prize in 2017.