Harry Bertoia

Private collection of the private secretary to Eero Saarinen Wright Auction, Chicago, Harry Bertoia: Material and Form, May 2, 2007 [Lot 817a]

Acquired from the above by the present owner

Nancy Schiffer and Val O. Bertoia, The World of Bertoia, Shiffer, Atglen, PA, 2003, p. 25 for a similar example

Town & Country, May 2018, ill. p. 114

Yvonne J. Markowitz, Artful Adornments: Jewelry from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MFA Publications, Boston, 2011, p. 166

Reading, PA, Reading Public Museum, In Nature’s Embrace: The World of Harry Bertoia, 2006 – 2007

Bertoia’s jewelry work is very rare, and his hammered brass and silverwork came from his years at Cranbrook Academy of Art in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan. His pieces like this Crab-Shaped Brooch are handmade and created with rivets and tension fittings. A similar example can be seen in Yvonne J. Markowitz, Artful Adornments: Jewelry from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MFA Publications, Boston, 2011, p. 166.