A mood sconce of a pirate badly in need of some dental work grinned a toothless grin for $850 in the space of The Woodchuck, Chuck Morganstern. This eerie piece of mood lighting hung in the lobby of an Art Deco movie palace in the 1930s, better known as the pirate era. Morganstern’s shop is located at 3597 Sacramento Street in San Francisco. He can be contacted at (415) 922-6416.
Category Archives: Bronze
Trujillo names top vienna bronze artists
Although there are as many as 20,000 bronze artists, dealer Pat Trujillo, who often specializes in them, can only name three of the major artists: Franz Bergman, Carl Kauba, and August Mouereau. Trujillo is expected to bring several examples of Austrian table top naughties to the March Bustamante Show in Pasadena, including a $21,000 amorous couple in a hidden canopy bed, which is particularly rare because it is also a music box. The entire Art Deco movement may have been kicked off by the shoes crafted by Salat on his intricate cold painted bronze of a Middle Eastern harem scene. Priced at $18,000, the girl, dancing to the sound of a flute inside a red tent, has strangely modern looking shoes for the time period in which the bronze was made, around 1905. ”The style of the shoes are a mystery,” said Trujillo, who has no doubt about the age of the piece being around the turn-of-the-century. Perhaps the artisan was truly ahead of his time. A little more blatantly sexual, but also a naughty, a double-sided suggestive bronze was priced at $550 in the space of Mark Foks. Dating back to the 1950s, when erotica wasn’t nearly as subtle, the bronze is a phallus with a face and body carved into the front. It was executed by Anton Bosky, a listed American artist.
