Title:
Set of Four Red Glazed Ceramic Bowls
Style: Contemporary (ca. 1945-present)
Medium: Sculptures, Ceramic, 4 glazed ceramic bowls
Year: ie. circa 1981
Size: height - 7.75 in, width - 11.75 in, depth - 0 in
Markings: signed, Each bowl is signed on the bottom.
Various sizes:
1. (1981) 4.5 x 7 inches
2. (1981) 6.87 x 9.12 inches
3. (1981) 6.87 X 9.50
4. (1980) 7.75 x 11.75
Edition: UNIQUE
Estimate: from $25,000 to $35,000
Seller's Description:
EXTREMELY RARE - FIRST TIME AT AUCTION. Brilliantly glazed in Heilmann's signature cadmium orange, in various sizes make up this stunning sculpture. Her colors are always vibrant and lush, yellows, blues and the cherry red of these four hand thrown forms. Recognized as one of America's leading abstract painters Mary Heilmann actually began her career making ceramics and this body of work has continued throughout her career.
She is known for her colorful and pattern-like paintings which show the process of the pouring and layering of paint much like the application of glazes on her ceramics.
On October 9,2009 Public Television presented a program on Heilmann who talked about her ceramics as being pivotal to her development as a painter. Heilmann recently had a retrospective at the New Museum in New York City. Mary Heilmann has received the Anonymous Was a Woman Foundation Award (2006) and grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Guggenheim Foundation. She has had major exhibitions at the Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, New York (2009); New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York (2008); Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, Ohio (2008); and Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, California (2007), among others. Her work has appeared in Whitney Biennials (1972, 1989, 2008) and is in many collections, including the Museum of Modern Art, New York; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; and Orange County Museum of Art. Mary Heilmann lives and works in New York.
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