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THBGene Tobey (1945-2006) American, 1988 Ceramic Buffalo Statue Lamp
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522 South Pineapple Avenue
Sarasota, FL 34236
United States
Sarasota Estate Auction specializes in a wide variety of furniture, antiques, fine art, lighting, sculptures, and collectibles. Andrew Ford, owner and operator of the company, has a passion for finding the best pieces of art and antiques and sharing those finds with the Gulf Coast of Florida.
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LiveMar 29, 2025
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Gene Tobey (1945-2006) American, 1988 Buffalo Statue Lamp. Statue that can work as a lamp. Mostly brown with a black back half. Incised with Native American tribal patterns along the body, with colorful glazed raised shapes and forms, as well as pierced abstract designs. Signed near the back and dated 88.
Size: 27 x 8 x 21 in.
#5861Gene Tobey and his wife Rebecca have worked as a team, creating brightly colored, somewhat abstract animals with elements of realism and with line drawings incised into the surfaces. Their work ranges from small objects to a fifteen-foot bronze bear at the Law School of Baylor University.
Tobey was born in Utah and began his career as a working potter and sculptor and teacher at Casper Community College in Casper, Wyoming. He was also a teacher in Albany, Oregon at Linn-Benton Community College. Rebecca was the daughter of an Oak Ridge scientist.
Gene and Rebecca met in 1984 in Santa Fe, New Mexico. The collaboration began with Rebecca acting as assistant on Gene’s sculptures, which evolved from dishes and practical ceramics to stylized animals. “She was my glaze technician,” Tobey explained, meaning the person who applies the glazes before firing. The sculptures in the mid-1980’s were an interesting combination of techniques. Gene Tobey first made a mold of an animal and cut out sections to be superimposed on other parts of the animal. Then, using a steel stylus he engraved designs. Rebecca Tobey did the glazing, imbuing the sculptures with color before the final firing. Over the months, however, Rebecca Tobey slowly began to develop her own techniques and her own ideas about the kind of surfaces that would enhance the three-dimensional qualities of the sculptures. In the mid 1990s, they shifted away from ceramics to work in bronze and experiment with eye-catching patinas.
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27 x 8 x 21 in.
