Completed in 2023, featuring (23) brass "cat-tail tops" arranged as M or W, silvered to beryllium-copper rods, silvered onto a conforming brass base plate, stamped B-2701, included with the lot is a signed Certificate of Authentication issued by the artist and a custom wood crate.



Sculpture 41 1/4 x 11 1/2 x 13 in.; crate 45 1/2 x 12 x 15 1/4 in.

From the Collection of the Artist

Val Bertoia is an avant-garde artist, best known for creating sound sculptures inspired by the integration of form, sound, space, and nature. Each sculpture creates their own musical experience, and is designed so that people of all ages can immediately interact.
Val studied mechanical Engineering, graduating with a degree from the Indiana Institute of Technology. In the 1970s he worked alongside his father, the renowned 'Sonambient' sculptor, designer and installation artist Harry Bertoia (Italian/American, 1915-1978), as well as developing his own projects involving kinetic sculpture and engineered wind-electric systems. With the encouragement of his mother, Brigitta Bertoia, Val has continued the sculpture business of his father's legacy.

Overall good estate condition; some marks to base.