Porcelain Bisque Doll Jointed Rare Limited Edition Harriett Savoie Marty w/tag

Description

Marty #03/50 by Harriett Savoie is a beautiful life like blond doll in a blue sweater, cap, white pants, and white and blue shoes.
Large at 17.7"
Jointed head, arms, and legs
Absolutely beautiful features
Porcelain bisque
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"H
arriett Savoie
first came to our attention as an extraordinary doll maker. Her dolls are unique personalities—three-dimensional portraits, actually—and unforgettable. They are so lifelike that when just the head is shown, it is gruesome, and the resemblance they bear to the person they were modeled after is uncanny. Many of the subjects are Harriett’s grandchildren.
Last year, she made an oil painting of her son’s dog, and that led to other pet portraits. She is now painting pet portraits in watercolor and, like her dolls, they are true to their subjects.
Harriet was born in Warren, Michigan. She and her six children moved to Dafter after her husband died. They came to this area like so many of us—simply because this was where they wanted to live. Harriet now lives in Dafter and retains the cabin on Brevort Lake that she had before she moved here. Except for one son, who remains in the area, her children have grown and scattered, now living in Florida, Illinois, and Wisconsin. She lost a daughter to cancer.
Harriett studied doll making with in Chicago and New York, working with Tom Boland, with whom she attended a toy fair at the World Trade Center. Yolanda Bello taught her to make a mold of the clay heads she sculpted. (She was left to figure out by herself how to make the rest of the doll.) Her first doll was a portrait of her grandson. All of her porcelain dolls are portraits of real people and bear their names. Her smaller dolls are pure creations. She makes dolls in several sizes, and will have a variety on hand to show and sell when she demonstrates in Alberta House June 9, 20, and 23."
From Sault Area Arts Council, June 2007