Lisa Sotilis “Kalliope Muse” necklace, handwrought 18K-24K gold, further inset with ancient and rare carved green jade and cabochon jade jewels, natural pearls, signed, 1970
LISA SOTILIS (b. 1944) Greece
“Kalliope Muse” necklace 1970
Handwrought 18K-24K gold, further inset with ancient and rare carved green jade and cabochon jade jewels, natural pearls
Marks: LS monogram (impressed on a gold nugget form on the back of the necklace)
Exhibited: Parallel Dialogues from the jewelry of ancient Vergi to the modern jewelry of Lisa Sotilis, Archaeological Museum of Serres, 16 November 2013 – 16 January 2014, curated by Pierre Kaloussian Velissiotis & Giovanna Dalla Chiesa
Necklace illustrated: SOTILIS, Parallel Dialogues from the jewelry of ancient Vergi to the modern jewelry of Lisa Sotilis, exhibition catalogue, Archaeological Museum of Serres, 16 November 2013 – 16 January 2014, curated by Pierre Kaloussian Velissiotis & Giovanna Dalla Chiesa (Milano-Cannes-Athens: Musarte Edition 2013).
For more information and related Sotilis jewelry see: Giorgio de Chirico and Lisa Sotilis; The Thousand Eyes of the Sphinx, Floriano de Santi and Pierre Kaloussian Velissiotis (Athens: Pierre Kaloussian Velissiotis, 2010)
By repute this necklace was given as a present to Christina Onassis by her in-laws Dorette Karaiossifoglu-Andreadis and Stratis Andreadis.
Tapio Wirkkala / Nils Westerback, Pendant Necklace, Lap-gold (18K gold or higher) pendant head with a rigid necklace, marked, 1970
TAPIO WIRKKALA (1915-1985) Finland
NILS WESTERBACK Finland
Pendant Necklace 1970
Lap-gold (18K gold or higher) pendant head with a rigid necklace
Makers: Tapio Wirkkala and Nils Westerback
Marks: 750, three crowns symbols
Model illustrated in: The Art of Jewelry, Graham Hughes (New York: The Viking Press, Inc., 1972), p. 135; Scandinavian Design, Charlotte and Peter Fiell (Köln: TASCHEN, 2002) p. 675; Marianne Aav, Rosa Barovier Mentasti and Gordon Bowyer, et al., Tapio Wirkkala – eye, hand and thought, exh. cat., Museum of Art and Design, Helsinki, 2000, p. 194, fig. 342 and p. 370
Tim Liddy Who Can Beat Nixon (1970) Presidential Sweepstakes 2006 Oil and enamel on copper, plywood back
TIM LIDDY
“Who Can Beat Nixon” (1970) Presidential Sweepstakes 2006
Oil and enamel on copper, plywood back
Signed in script: Tim Liddy “circa 1970” 2006, red circular ring
Provenance: William Shearburn Gallery (St. Louis, MO)
H: 11 ¾” x W: 9” x D: 2”
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.
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