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Lot ID: 11885
Leonard  Baskin:   Totemic Head
 
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Description
Artist: Baskin Leonard
Title: Totemic Head
Style: Contemporary, New York School, Representational
Medium: Sculptures, Wood, carved
Year: ie. circa 1958
Size: height - 17 in, width - 8.5 in, depth - 4.5 in cm
Edition: UNIQUE
Estimate: from US$6,500 to US$12,500

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Rare and unique, hand-carved, totemic head created by LEONARD BASKIN in 1958, during the time that modern artists were considering the works from native cultures, and adapting the simplified abstraction to their own, new works.
Stands nearly one and a half feet tall without base—may be hung or mouted on a stand.
  • Condition Report
    • Current lot doesn't have any damage.
  • History & Provenance
    • Provenance:
      Studio of the Artist directly to
      Private Collection, NY
      thence by descent to the current owner,
      Private Collection, NY



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      Shipping Weight: 10 lbs
      Framing: No
      Item Location: New York, USA
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Sales Results for Comparable Work

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    Spellbound, 1983 - 1983
    Wood
    36.0 in. x 17.0 in. / 91.4 cm. x 43.2 cm.

    Estimate: US$15,000 - 20,000 Sold for US$12,000


    Wright:
    Sunday, November 09, 2003, (Lot 00360)
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  • Leonard Baskin
    Bird man,
    Wood
    30.0 in. / 76.2 cm.

    Estimate: US$3,000 - 4,000 Sold for US$12,650


    Christie's East:
    Wednesday, May 05, 1999, (Lot 00165)
    American Paintings & Sculpture

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Biography & Links
Leonard Baskin Biography
1922
Born August 15, New Brunswick, NY
1929-1938
Studied at Yeshiva, Brooklyn, NY
1939-1940
Studied at New York University School of Architecture and Allied Arts
1940
Recieved Honorable mention for sculpture, Prix de Rome
1941-1943
Scholarship, Yale University School of Fine Arts New Haven, CT
1943-1946
Served in the United States Navy
1947
Recieved Tiffany Foundation Fellowship for Sculpture
1949
BA, New School for Social Research New York, NY
1950
Studied Academie de la Grande Chaumiere, Paris, France
1951
Studied Accademia di Belle Arte, Florence
1953
Recieved Guggenheim Fellowship
1954
Recieved Ohara Prize, National Museum of Tokyo,
1961
Recieved National Institute of Arts and Letters Grant,
1961
Recieved Mather Prize, Art Institute of Chicago,
1965
Recieved Widener Medal, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts,
1965
Recieved Special Medal of Merit, American Institute of Graphic Arts,
1966
Honorary Doctor of Fine Arts, The New School New York, NY
1969
Recieved Medal, National Institute of Arts and Letters,
1973
Skowhegan Gold Medal for Graphics Skowhegan, ME
1985
Honorary DFA, Portland School of Art Portland, OR
1987
Honorary LHD, University of Judaism Los Angeles, CA
1995
Recieved Cultural Achievement in the Arts Award, National Foundation for Jewish Culture,
1997
Honorary Degree, Springfield College Springfield, MA
2000
Died
Selected Exhibitions
1939
Glickman Studio Gallery New York, NY
1958
Pasadena Art Museum Pasadena, CA
1962
The Royal Watercolour Society/St. George's Gallery London, England
1968-1969
XXXIV International Bienniel Exhibition of Art, Venice, Italy
1970
National Museum of American Art/The Smithsonian Washington, DC
1984
The Albertina Vienna, Austria
1991
Angels to the Jews, Midtown Payson Gallery New York, NY
1994
Caprices, Grotesques and Homages: Leonard Baskin and The Gehenna Press, Library of Congress Washington, DC
1998
Leonard Baskin: 1947-1998, Hunter Museum of Art Chattanooga, TN
2000
Leonard Baskin: Monumental Prints, The de Young Museum, San Francisco, CA (solo)
2001
Leonard Baskin, McMaster Museum of Art, Hamilton, ON (solo)
The Modern Woodcut, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
2002
Images of Nature, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
2003
DeCordova Collects: Gifts from Stephen and Sybil Stone, DeCordova Museum, Lincoln, MA
2004
Leonard Baskin: Creatures of Darkness, Greenville County Museum of Art, Greenville, SC (solo)
Leonard Baskin: Two Portfolios, Oklahoma City Museum of Art, Oklahoma City, OK (solo)
Objects of Our Desire: Sculpture from the Sheldon, Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery, Lincoln, NE
2005
Currents: Twenty-Five Years of Collecting Modern and Contemporary Prints, Mary & Leigh Block Museum of Art, Evanston, IL
2006
Leonard Baskin: Portrait Prints and the Gehenna Press, Brooks Museum of Art, Memphis, TN (solo)
More than Coffee was Served, Galerie St. Etienne, New York, NY
New Acquisitions: Prints, ASU Art Museum, Arizona State University Art Museum, Tempe, AZ
Spotlight, Thomas Deans Fine Art, Atlanta, GA
2007
Graphic Force, Humanist Vision, Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR (solo)
Madea and Her Sisters: Leonard Baskin's Images of Women, Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, MA (solo)
Clear Cut, Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR
Art Inspires Music: Interdisciplinary Gallery Project 3, ASU Art Museum, Arizona State University Art Museum, Tempe, AZ
Framed: The Art of the Portrait, Art Gallery of Hamilton, Hamilton, ON
2008
NaturPapier, KunsGarten, Graz
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