Lot 96A
Carl Dahl (active XX-XXI). "White Bird" porcelain and iron on wood base, 2014. Signed and dated on underside of the wood base. A beautiful sculpture by southwestern sculptor Carl Dahl, depicting a soaring white bird with his signature classical aesthetic. Dahl intentionally creates figures that are white and appear to be fragmentary, akin to the remains of ancient sculptures, suggesting age and history. Dahl describes them as "bleached" and "bone-like" reflecting not only the Classical World but also his personal experience of the severe desert landscape where he was raised. Size: 14.25" L x 14.875" W x 9.875" H (36.2 cm x 37.8 cm x 25.1 cm)
In addition to being a brilliant sculptor, Carl Dahl is impressively eloquent when he describes his art, inspirations, and process as evident in the following statement, "In sculpture, I prefer to work on an intimate scale. This immediacy lets me work fast and with simple tools. My materials are moist clay, steel wire, time and heat. The emerging clay figures bleached, bone-like and suffused with rusting iron capture elemental parts of my desert experience. The wood bases reflect an instance of life grounding this entropy." (Source: artist's website)
According to Professor Daniel Britton, "The true significance of any artwork rests in its ability to offer the viewer something new to 'see' or 'feel' conceptually or formally every time they encounter the work. This is a concept that is evident only in the work of the finest artists of this or any era. Carl Dahl is a contemporary artist whose work has these qualities in abundance."
Provenance: ex-private Bishop Family Trust collection, the Trust of the late Bill Bishop, a noted antiquarian with shops in Scottsdale, Arizona and Allenspark, Colorado, USA, acquired before 2010
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- Condition: Signed and dated on underside of the wood base. Intentional cracks, losses, and oxidation - Dahl's aesthetic involves the suggestion of age to reference antiquity. Please note that some of the iron pieces protrude through the bird form; again, this was likely intended by Dahl.
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