Harry Bertoia, Untitled (Spray) sculpture, c1960.
26 inches high, base is 6 inches by 6 inches.

Davids note: this sculpture comes with a COA from Val Bertoia that states the sculpture was made by his father, Harry Bertoia.

Harry Bertoia was an Italian-born American artist best known for his sculptures, jewelry, and furniture design. Perhaps his most famous piece is his Diamond Chair, an elegant furniture object made entirely from polished steel wires which create a basket-like shape upon which cushions can rest. Born on March 10, 1915 in San Lorenzo, Italy, Bertoia moved with his older brother to Detroit at age 15 where he enrolled in Cass Technical High School. He would later attend the nearby Cranbrook Academy of Art, where he notably studied with Walter Gropius. He worked for the Evans Product Company and then the design firm Knoll, and by the 1950s was able to devote himself exclusively to art. It was then that Bertoia started making sculptures out of metal and wood that were made to produce various sounds, like chimes and gongs. He recorded his ambient albums in a barn he converted into a makeshift recording studio with these sound sculptures. Today, Betroias works are in the collections of the Brooklyn Museum in New York, the Hishorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, D.C., the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, among others. He died on November 6, 1978 in Barto, PA. (Artnet)

Bertoias works are included in the permanent collections of the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C.; the Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford; and the Art Institute of Chicago. His public commissions appear at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology chapel, Cambridge; the State Department Building, Washington, D.C.; and the Federal Reserve Bank Building in Richmond, Virginia, among many other public and influential spaces. His sculptures and objects sell for ever-increasing prices. Recently, his Untitled, Monumental Bush, sold at Sothebys for $519,000 in 2018. (Sothebys)

Partial wear to the chrome or silver plating to the bronze base.