Jewelry

Item Description

An Orgianal Beatrice Wood  (1893-1998)  – 20  sculptured Rocks  (or her polished ceramic rendition of rock !) necklace – with large silver engraved bead. And two side silver beads. Sections set off by smaller silver beads. Beautiful  and unique

Bought from Bertrice Wood in person at Ojai, CA workshop.  She sold it directly to me, in 1993, when she was 100 years old. 

Dimensions: Length  27” from clasp loop to clasp insert. Very easy to clasp. Piece is solid; weighs:  5.6 oz.

If the winner does not like this lovely necklace, I will accept a return and refund

Very special and singular – one of a kind. Handmade by Beatrice Wood.   Online, her jewelry price is $2000 or more. If anyone is selling!   (Receipt has been long lost, you will have to love this piece for its unique beauty)

“Sculptor Beatrice Wood was a pioneer of 20th-century ceramics, renowned for her iridescent vessels and figurative sculptures. Wood achieved critical and commercial success for her shimmering wares, which she produced by applying lustre directly into glazes instead of glazing her objects after firing them. Born into a wealthy family, Wood abandoned her privileged life at age 19 to study acting and painting in Paris. When she returned to New York in 1911, she became active in avant-garde circles; she was known as the “Mama of Dada” for her participation in Dada exhibitions and her friendships with Dada artists like Marcel Duchamp. Wood had her first encounter with pottery in 1933, when she enrolled in an adult ceramics course, later apprenticing with ceramicists Gertrud and Otto Natzler. In 1948 she set up a studio in Ojai, California, where she would continue to create pottery until she died in 1998 at the age of 105. Works by Beatrice Wood are held in the collections of museums and institutions across the globe, including the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art in California, and the Victoria and Albert Museum in London. The secondary market for works by Beatrice Wood is quite strong, buoyed by a robust market of modern ceramics collectors eager to own designs by this icon of the craft.”

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