Art as Jewelry as Art
Art as Jewelry as Art
Harry Bertoia
'Snake' Brooch
Lot Closed
October 6, 04:08 PM GMT
Estimate
30,000 - 40,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Harry Bertoia
1915 - 1978
'Snake' Brooch
1943, unsigned
silver snake-shaped brooch with vertical loop piercing head and a pin back sold together with Town & Country magazine, May 2018
2⅞ by 1½ in.; 7.3 by 3.8 cm.
Wright Auction, December 2016 [lot 139]
Acquired from the above by the present owner
Nancy Schiffer and Val O. Bertoia, The World of Bertoia, Shiffer, Atglen, PA, 2003, ill. p. 27
June Kompass Nelson, Harry Bertoia, Sculptor, Wayne State University Press, Detroit, 2018, ill. fig. 15
Town & Country, May 2018, pictured with Calder jewelry on model worn as hair ornament, ill. p. 114