For sale is a wonderful collage artwork by the world renowned Florida collage artist Bruce Helander (1947 -
We acquired this artwork in a grouping of artworks from a sale in Connecticut.
The artwork is very visually, appealing with numerous elements and components of paper and ephemeral pieces collaged together in a very harmonious balance.
Titled: Be Be Bottom
Date: June 2 1986
The artwork is signed by the artist in the lower right corner. It has not been examined out of the frame. It is gallery, framed and matted under glass.
The artwork appears to be in overall good condition. The paper the collage is laid upon seeming to show some age, but this appears to be part of the actual collage artwork itself in our opinion. A seam in the center where two pieces of paper join together. See all pics
Measurements
Framed - 19 3/4" x 16 1/2"
Sight Size - 13 1/2" x 10 3/4"
Bruce Helander (1947 -
City Link magazine called Bruce Helander "arguably the most recognized and successful collage artist in the country."
"If there was a Pulitzer Prize for collage, Helander would surely win it," observed Kenworth Moffett, the former director of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, in a feature article in the November 2001 issue of Gold Coast magazine.
Former Provost of the Rhode Island School of Design, he is a fellow of the National Endowment for the Arts and won the 2001 South Florida Cultural Consortium fellowship for professional achievement in visual arts. His work is in over fifty museum permanent collections, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum of Art, the Smithsonian Institution, the Montreal Museum of Art, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the White House and the Vatican in Rome. His collages have been the subjects of over one hundred exhibitions in North America and Europe, with reviews in leading magazines such as ARTnews and Art in America.
Helander's work is in numerous private collections, including actors Martin Mull and Dennis Hopper, musicians David Byrne and Jimmy Buffett and fashion designer Todd Oldham, as well as numerous corporate commissions.
Prominent artists who collect his work include Dale Chihuly, Robert Rauschenberg, James Rosenquist and Larry Rivers. Dan Marino, Senator Howard Metzenbaum and author Tom Wolfe own Helander work.
His collages appear nationally in leading print media, including The New Yorker magazine. He was commissioned by the United Nations in August 1999 to design a first day postal cover design and limited edition print, which was presented in the General Assembly Building. He has produced prints for the Washington Opera, Ballet Florida and the Palm Beach and Boston Film Festivals.
He has written extensively on contemporary art and in 2007 Grassfield Press will publish a book, titled Fire & Ice, of one hundred of his favorite reviews. He writes a monthly columns in South Florida Times magazine.