Auction record Leonora Carrington with the wooden sculpture painted by her ‘La Grande Dame’. Also known as: ‘The Cat Woman’. A buyer paid no less than 11.38 million dollars (!) for it at auction house Sotheby’s. This amount breaks the record of another wooden sculpture: […]
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Man Ray destroyed the eye of Lee Miller, attached to the inverted pendulum of a metronome. His muse and fellow photographer had left him. That is why this surrealist wooden sculpture was accompanied by the instruction: ‘destroy it in one blow’. Man Ray destroyed the
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Giacometti dreamed of a palace at night, at 4 o’clock in the morning. Influenced by other surrealist artists he constructed a fragile structure of wooden rods with abstract wooden sculptures inside: a female figure, a skeleton of some kind of flying dinosaur, a bowl with
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Asmundur Sveinsson designed the chairman’s gavels of the UN and NATO. What’s more: the gavels are identical. Mark Rutte is the fourth chairman from the Netherlands to open NATO meetings with this ‘hammer of Thor’. Both gavels have already been hammered to pieces. At his
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Ellsworth Kelly created spiritual totem poles. Not like the First Nations of the American west coast with bird figures, but completely abstract in form. With a slight curve he gave the wood some movement, giving the artwork something natural. This wooden ‘totem pole’ ‘Untitled’ by
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Jesus and Mary. In nine saw cuts. That’s all it takes to saw the silhouette of a woman from a yew trunk. Mary. I added a medallion to her ‘pregnant’ belly, in which a smiling face is hidden. That of Jesus. Jesus and Mary. She
The Owl of Minerva has landed, in the society of the Minerva student association in Leiden. My first commission for a large wooden sculpture of 60 centimeters in height and 22.5 kilos in weight. The students were super enthusiastic at the informal unveiling in their
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The Walk Art Market in Zeist was for me a first market exploration at a well-attended art market, at the stand of our sculptors’ association ‘Guts en Klopper’. And that’s more fun to experience than I thought. Enjoyable. The audience was willing. Cheerful. The sun
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Levi van Veluw orders the chaos, by covering his head with square blocks of wood, as if it were a computer system board. He exorcises fears by rebuilding his boyhood room, as it began to haunt him at night in his nightmares. Hundreds of round
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The German sculptor Ewald Mataré has gone down in art history as the maker of the forbidden cat. The extreme-right Nazis of Adolf Hitler labeled the abstract wooden sculpture as ‘Degenerate Art’. Mataré made his ‘Schlafende Katze’ in 1929. Eight years later the sculpture was
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