Artistic Embellishments: The latest indicator of consumer and collectors’ interest in sophisticated jewelry has been underscored by Sotheby’s, which plans to host its first dedicated auction for artist’s jewelry.
This assortment would include pieces from Pablo Picasso, Max Ernst, Alexander Calder, Salvador Dalí and other top-constructivists of the 20th century and more recent years. Sounds like a case for why-just-collect-art-when-you-can-wear, with the phenomenon being touted as “art as jewelry as art.”
Online bidding will start from September 24 and will continue till October 4.
Watchers and serious buyers alike will find a good amount of pieces going down the gavel. The nine chapters of the phenomenon are Kineticism, Abstract Expressionism, Sculpture, Surrealism, Avant-Garde, Maverick, Minimalism, Modernism and Visionary. Along with online auction dates, featured jewelry and accessories will be on display in the galleries of the Upper East Side auction house alongside contemporary curated collections.
In addition to the above artists, there will be items from James de Givenchy, Louis Claude Lalaney, Pol Bury, Jorge Braque, Lucio Fontana and other power players from the art world. Tiffany Dublin, Sotheby’s Artist Jewelry Specialist and Head of Sales, said the artist’s selection of jewelry is meant to not only reintroduce these works to discerning customers, but art for the collection to be used for ornamentation and personal expression. also presents a defined category of “The way we define ourselves and the art we engage with are integral to who we are and what ultimately defines us,” she said.
Online browsers, exhibition visitors and active bidders will also learn more about artists’ jewelry and accessories experiences. Many are familiar with the colorful kinetic mobiles and sculptures made by Calder, but they may not know that he produced some 1,800 pieces of wearable art during his lifetime. The brass spiral tiara she designed previously belonged to Lady Kenneth Clark, which is expected to cost between $200,000 and $300,000.
Although one cannot deny the enduring fascination in Surrealism by artists and fashion designers, Metier is often associated with Dali. Recently, designers such as Schiaparelli’s Danielle Roseberry, Ulla Johnson and Marine Serre have added surrealist touches to their collections. The term “surrealism” first appeared in Guillaume Apollinaire’s description of his 1917 play, “Les Mammels de Tiresias”, but the artistic and literary movement by the same name—which allowed the subconscious and the irrational to be free—created by the poet André Went to Breton after seven years. Surrealism’s enduring and global appeal was on display at the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s “Surrealism Beyond Borders” exhibition, which ended earlier this year. Photographer Horst P. at the SCAD FASH Museum of Fashion + Film in Atlanta. This is an exhibition about Horst that will touch on elements of Surrealism.
For some, Dali’s 1931 landscape painting “The Persistence of Memory” is the epitome of surrealism. And, a pair of 18-karat gold “Persistence of Sound” earrings made by him in 1949 is expected to generate between $150,000 and $200,000 at auction.
More contemporary pieces by artists such as Anish Kapoor, Hiroshi Sugimoto and Carmen Herrera will also be available for sale.
Originally published at Pen 18
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