UP FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION:
MID-CENTURY MODERN SCULPTURE

DETAILS:
ORIGINAL MAGNESIUM SCULPTURE BY SASCHA BRASTOFF 
UNTITLED/UNSIGNED
HEIGHT:  7 5/8"
DECADE: 1960's
ROUND BASE.
MADE IN THE USA
THIS 'ONE OF A KIND' SCULPTURE IS IN GREAT VINTAGE CONDITION! THERE ARE NORMAL SIGNS OF AGING/WEAR. 

SASCHA BRASTOFF WAS A CELEBRATED PROLIFIC AMERICAN MID-CENTURY SCULPTURE WHO CREATED UNIQUE ABSTRACT METAL WORK.

JUST TO GIVE YOU A BIT OF PROVENANCE BEHIND THIS.  SASCHA KNEW MY GRANDMOTHER'S CLOSEST FRIEND'S SON (KEITH BENJAMIN) WHO WAS ALSO AN ARTIST AND LIVED IN SAN FRANCISCO.  KEITH GAVE THIS SCULPTURE TO MY PARENTS AS A WEDDING GIFT IN 1961. 
THE STORY IS, SASCHA SCULPTED THIS PIECE IN HIS BACKYARD AND WAS NOT HAPPY WITH THE RESULTS.  HE WAS ACTUALLY GOING TO THROW IT AWAY!!  KEITH WAS VISITING HIM ONE DAY AND SASCHA ASKED IF HE WOULD LIKE TO HAVE IT.  KEITH TOOK IT, BELIEVING IT WOULD BE WORTH SOMETHING SOME DAY.  PLUS HE WAS FASCINATED BY IT.  HOWEVER, HE THOUGHT IT WOULD MAKE AN UNUSUAL AND WONDERFUL GIFT FOR MY PARENTS.  INDEED THIS SCULPTURE HAS RECEIVED MUCH ATTENTION OVER THE YEARS!!!  IT WAS DISPLAYED IN A GLASS CABINET.

FROM WHAT I HAVE RECENTLY LEARNED THROUGH CORRESPONDING WITH STEVE CONTI AUTHOR OF "COLLECTOR'S ENCYCLOPEDIA OF SASCHA BRASTOFF," SASCHA WAS BELIEVED TO BEGIN EXPERIMENTING WITH MAGNESIUM SCULPTURES LATE IN 1964.  HE OFFERED THESE SCULPTURES FOR SALE "ONE AT A TIME, ONE-OF-A-KIND" FROM MARCH 1965 TO THE END OF 1966.  THIS I FIND EXTREMELY INTRIGUING.  THERE IS OBVIOUSLY MORE TO THE STORY WITH THIS PIECE, AN UNKNOWN FACT THAT HAS NOT COME TO LIGHT UNTIL NOW.  SINCE MY PARENTS RECEIVED THIS IN 1961, THAT TELLS ME THIS IS ONE OF SASCHA'S FIRST PIECES DURING HIS EXPERIMENTAL PHASE DOING METAL SCULPTURES MUCH EARLIER THAN HIS KNOWN WORKS IN 1964.    
 
I HAVE INHERITED THIS WONDERFUL SCULPTURE AND WOULD LIKE A TRUE COLLECTOR OR SOMEONE WHO IS FASCINATED BY IT TO ENJOY THIS INCREDIBLY RARE ONE OF A KIND ABSTRACT METAL SCULPTURE.  IT IS MOST DEFINITELY A CONVERSATION PIECE.  I TOOK IT TO THE ANTIQUES ROADSHOW IN PALM SPRINGS IN AUGUST AND IT WAS THE TALK OF THE SHOW.  IT BECAME KNOWN AS "THE VULTURE SCULPTURE."
 
BRASTOFF WAS KNOWN FOR HIS WATERCOLOR, CERAMIC, GLASS AND METAL WORK.  HE WAS AN ABSTRACT EXPRESSIONIST.  FROM THE RESEARCH I HAVE DONE, I FOUND HE WORKED/LIVED IN NEW YORK.  "BRASTOFF WAS COMMISSIONED BY NELSON ROCKEFELLER AND VARIOUS HOLLYWOOD PRODUCERS TO PRODUCE SCULPTURES FOR THEIR VENTURES."  YEARS AGO I RECOGNIZED ONE OF HIS ABSTRACT SCULPTURES IN A MOVIE.  OF COURSE I CAN'T REMEMBER WHICH MOVIE.

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