sold!
on saturday i went to an auction and boy, did i ever have fun. i made some fantastci purchases as well. harlowe-powell, a local auction house, had it's first dedicated "mid-century modern" auction (although the accuracy of that description is arguble). usually, i think, their auctions are a mish-mash of various estates and periods. but, i heard, that there is a concerted effort bring more mid-century pieces to the market and this was their first effort. i scored three pieces of art - a small watercolor, by an unidentified painter; a print, presumably made from a photo negative, also unidentified; and an original signed and numbered lee adler print of gears, aptly named gears III. adler is an aesthetic realist whose work is currently in the metropolitan museum of art, british museum, and the whitney museum of american art. his piece was my real prize of the day, but the other items i scored are fantatsic too. there was an amazing collection of pottery - most of which i could not afford - but i did get two neat pieces. i scored a neat piece of streamline moderne silver designed by norman bel geddes, who was a fantastic industrial designer. i bid on an amazing pice of pottery designed by raymond loewy - also a favorite industrial designer - but it shot way out of my price range very quickly. there were two prints on which i wish i had bid higher, alas.also, i would have loved to score the single eames DCM chair, but it wasn't in great shape and the other bidder clearly had more money to spend than i did.
all in all, though, i had a great time, made great deals, and found really cool art. buying art has become a new obsession. i have read that, when buying art, you shouldn't think twice about the artist or the value of the piece. buy art that speaks to you, not for its appreciable value - which is not much unless you're buying monet or some other such crap.
now, if we could just stop demolishing walls in the house we'd have some place to hang the art!
posted by bls @ 10:00 AM
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