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THBModern Canadian Folk Art Metal Wire Bear
About Seller
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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LiveJan 18, 2025
Over 800 lots will be offered in day 1 of our 2 day weekend. There are multiple lots of fine art from mixed medias and abstracts to landscapes and lithographs. We have a Todd Warner Rhino Sculpture, a collection of art glass sculptures, modern furniture, Lalique, Kosta Boda, Parkwest Gallery artworks, and Coca-Cola collectibles. Sarasota Estate Auction sarasotaestateauction@gmail.com
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- Lot Description
Modern Canadian Folk Art Metal Wire Bear. Hundreds of delicate tight wire spools create the image of a bear. From Muskoka, Ontario.
Condition: Some rust. Commensurate with the elements.
Size: 47 1/2 x 13 x 26 in.
#7008 .
Wire sculpture is the creation of sculpture out of metal that has been turned into a thin, rounded (often coiled) shape, usually for an industrial or mechanical purpose. However, the use of metal wire in jewelry dates back to the 2nd Dynasty in Egypt, and even to the Bronze and Iron Ages in Europe. In the 20th Century major innovators developed the medium of wire sculpture as an art form, as abstraction, Brutalism, and found-object art began to thrive.. Alexander Calder (1898-1976) was an American sculptor who began to experiment with wire sculpture in his kinetic and movement-based Cirque Calder in 1926, after a stint spent making toys at the request of a Serbian toy merchant in Paris. Calder began creating a miniature movable circus that used wire models of various circus performers, like sword eaters and lion tamers. Inspired, Calder spent much of his career creating complete pieces only using wire, and in 1927 he had a show of wire sculptures at the Weyhe Gallery in New York City that introduced the concept to future artists. In 1930 he had a solo show of wire sculptures in Paris at Galerie Billiet, displaying his growing proficiency in making portraits, caricatures, and stylized representations of people and animals with the material. Ruth Asawa came to prominence when her wire sculptures appeared at both the Whitney Museum of American Art and the 1955 São Paulo Art Biennial. Asawa learned to use commonplace materials from Josef Albers, her teacher at Black Mountain College, and began experimenting with wire using a variety of techniques. Asawa continued to experiment with crocheted wire sculptures of abstract forms, and studied the technique while in Toluca, Mexico, where villagers used a similar process to make baskets from galvanized wire. In 1962 Asawa began experimenting with tied wire sculptures of images rooted in nature, geometry, and abstraction. Elizabeth Berrien began working with wire in the 1960s and was hailed as the “Godmother of Wire” by the wave of emerging wire sculptors she inspired. In the 1970s and 80s Gavin Worth and Kue King began to experiment with their own styles based on the work of Calder and Asawa, respectively. In the 1990s artists like Sophie Ryder explored large-scape pieces, such as the one-and-a-half story tall wire sculpture Sitting in the Yorkshire Sculpture Park, while others began to focus on miniaturization, such as Robin Wright’s line of wire fairies. Today, artists like Racso Jugarap have taken the craft even further, as he crafts what he calls “wearable wire arts,” and Brian Boyer uses wire that would otherwise end up in a landfill to create wire treescapes that combine mathematical formulas, algorithms, and equations along with geometric shapes, flowers, and many abstract patterns in the roots and branches.
Condition
Some rust. Commensurate with the elements.
- Provenance
From Muskoka, Ontario.
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47 1/2 x 13 x 26 in.
