BERTOIA: The Sonambient Barn Collection

BERTOIA: The Sonambient Barn Collection

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Property from the Bertoia Family and Harry Bertoia Foundation, Sold to Benefit the Bertoia Catalogue Raisonné Project

Harry Bertoia

Untitled (Plant Form)

Auction Closed

December 7, 11:26 PM GMT

Estimate

40,000 - 60,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property from the Bertoia Family and Harry Bertoia Foundation, Sold to Benefit the Bertoia Catalogue Raisonné Project

Harry Bertoia

Untitled (Plant Form)


circa 1970s

bronze and copper

10 in. (25.4 cm) high

17 in. (43.2 cm) diameter

Personal collection of the artist, Barto, Pennsylvania
Thence by descent
Acquired from the above by the present owner
The Bertoia Legacy: Sound and Motion, exh. cat., The Payne Gallery, Bethlehem, PA, 1990, p. 11 (for the present lot illustrated)
Beverly H. Twitchell, Bertoia: The Metalworker, New York, 2019, p. 250 (for the present lot illustrated)
The present lot was submerged in the fountain at the entrance of the Bertoia property.