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William Ruser, Beverly Hills, “Lotus Blossom” ring set with three large natural Baroque pearls and a yellow diamond in the center in an 18k gold highly textured structural gold mount, signed, c.1960
William Ruser, Beverly Hills, “Lotus Blossom” ring set with three large natural Baroque pearls and a yellow diamond in the center in an 18k gold highly textured structural gold mount, signed, c.1960
TIM LIDDY (b. 1963) Missouri
“Sorry” (1939) The Fashionble English Game 2006
Oil on copper, plywood back
Signed in script: Tim Liddy “circa 1939” 2006, red circular ring
Provenance: Kidder-Smith Gallery (Boston, MA)
H: 5 1/8” x W: 4 3/16”
With his recent paintings, Liddy has both reasserted the construct of hyperrealist painting and developed a thoroughly unique advancement of that mode by extending the cultural reality of the indexed original. Based on the illustrated box lids of vintage board games, Liddy has recontextualized a subject, which evokes the underlying rules of life. Painted on copper or steel in the precise dimensions of the original, the metal is then manipulated to demonstrate the exact rips and tears from years of usage and includes trompe-l’oeil renditions of the scotch tape that might be holding the cardboard box together, the assorted stains, or the various graffiti of time. Liddy leaves no possibility of ambivalence, these works speak to a concurrent understanding of their original object identity and to themselves as works of art engaged in historical and psychological dialogue.
GISELA VON FALKE (b. 1874) Austria
SCHOOL OF KOLO MOSER Austria
BERNDORFER METALLWARENFABRIK Berndorf, Austria
E. BAKALOWITS & SÖHNE Vienna, Austria [retailer]
Covered box c. 1902
Silver plate mounts and cover, blown “meteor” glass.
Marks: BEPWF 1481, maker’s touch marks
For more information on Berndorfer Metallwarenfabrik see: Blühender Jugendstil – Österreich (Art Nouveau in Blossom – Austria), Firmen und Marken (Companies and Marks), Waltraud Neuwirth, II (Vienna: Selbstverlag Neuwirth, 1991), p. 221; Metallkunst, Kunst vom Jugendstil zur Moderne (1889-1939), Karl H. Bröhan (Berlin: Bröhan Museum, 1990) pp. 20-44.
H: 7″ x W: 8″
Price: $9,000