Cast and polished bronze mounted to a black polished stone stand, signed "Kieff 3/6" towards base of bronze, together with a custom black laminate stand with rotating flush top. Accompanying the lot is a hard-back artist published book titled "Kieff" from 1972 showcasing his sculptures and signed and inscribed to the consignor.

Sculpture 37.5 x 35 x 10 in., pedestal 28 x 16 x 16 in.

Private Collection, Chapel Hill, NC

Grediaga's artistic oeuvre is wide ranging, working in a variety of artistic media throughout his career. However he's best known for abstract bronzes including monumental public space sculptures. A world traveller, Kieff has lived in worked in a variety of countries, including Cuba where he opened a foundry art workshop school in 2000. He studied industrial design, engineering, architecture, drama and music at various schools in Madrid (1950 - 1956), São Paulo, Brazil (1959 - 1961); Buenos Aires, Argentina (1961 - 1966); Barcelona, Spain (1966 - 1967); and Vienna, Austria (1967 - 1969).
Grediaga has exhibited at numerous prominent commercial galleries and museums internationally, including the Mann Auditorium, Tel Aviv, Israel (1977); the National Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan (1988); the Chiang Kai-Shek Museum, Kaohsiung, Taiwan (1988); the Centre d'Art Ozias Leduc, St. Hilaire, Quebec (1994); the Cultural Centre of Spain, Havana (1998 and 2002); the Emilio Bacardi Moreau Museum, Santiago de Cuba (2005); the National Museum of Fine Arts, Havana, Cuba (2006); and the Museum of the City, Madrid (2009). Gallery Moos, Montreal; Dominion Gallery, Montreal; Galerie Bernard Desroches, Montreal; Wallack Galleries, Ottawa; David Findlay Galleries, New York; Martin Lawrence Gallery, New York; Pucker Safrai Gallery, Boston; Kenmore Galleries, Philadelphia; Hokin Gallery, Chicago; Virginia Miller Gallery, Miami; Klabal Gallery, Minneapolis; Dubose Gallery, Houston; Maxwell Gallery, San Francisco; Ross Lawrence Gallery, Beverly Hills; Alwin Gallery, London, England; O'Hana Gallery, London, England; Safrai Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel; and Minami Gallery, Tokyo, Japan.

Good condition; some verdigris at base of sculpture (can likely be cleaned); some small chips to bottom edge of stone base.