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Harry Bertoia
'Untitled' Bronze Fringe Pendant with Kinetic Movement
Lot Closed
October 6, 04:09 PM GMT
Estimate
8,000 - 12,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Harry Bertoia
1915 - 1978
'Untitled' Bronze Fringe Pendant with Kinetic Movement
circa 1976, unsigned, unique
kinetic fringe pendant formed from twenty-eight hanging silicon bronze rods suspended from a horizontal copper rod with a suspension loop at each end
3⅛ by 2¾ in.; 8 by 6.7 cm
Kenneth J. Dukoff, New York
Wright Auction, Chicago: Harry Bertoia: Material and Form, May 2, 2007 [lot 819]
Acquired from the above by the present owner
Mark Coir, In Nature’s Embrace: The World of Harry Bertoia, Reading Public Museum, PA, 2006, p. 54
Martine Newby Haspeslagh, Art to Wear: Jewellery by Post-War Painters and Sculptors, Didier, Ltd., London, 2012, p. 14, no. 10
This ‘Unitled’ Bronze Fringe Pendant with Kinetic Movement was meant to be part of a new line of jewelry focused on gong-shaped pendants, dramatic bracelets, and hanging brooches for a limited-edition jewelry project with Kaare Bernston of Oslo, and this was one of only two fringe pendants completed before his death. In this work, true to the Bertoia style, the rods are of slightly varying length and mirror the larger sound ‘sonambient’ sculptures that he is best known for.