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Autumn Art + Design

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Sheafer + King Modern is pleased to present our Autumn Art + Design auction. Highlights include paintings by Harold Town, David T. Grafton, Richard Allen George, and Walter Louis Jones, sculptures by Isidore Grossman, a Don Herron Tubshots photograph, an Alice Ballard Munn whiteware vase, a set of Milo Baughman dining chairs, and other designer lighting, furniture, ceramics, Modern and traditional art, glass, photography, and more.
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Lot 109

David Batz Postmodern Studio Pottery Sculpture

Estimate: $50 - $100
Starting Bid
$30

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Studio pottery sculpture by the artist David Batz (American; 1944-1994). Unsigned.

 

Measurements: 6.25” W x 18” H x 6.5” D.

 

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From WOLFS Gallery:

Batz was a BFA/MA graduate from Rhode Island School of Design, and became a teacher of ceramics at the Cleveland Institute of Art from 1970-1974, before opening the Fiori Gallery in Little Italy, and working full time as an artist in his own studio. His works were selected for exhibition in over 17 Cleveland Museum May Shows, as well as numerous other exhibitions. In addition to creating functional pottery, which he produced the most, he added glazed ceramic pictorial reliefs and sculptures to his repertoire.

 

David tragically died in 1994 in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico. His art has been under the care of his surviving partner Robert Jursinski ever since, and was last seen in a retrospective show at the Cleveland Artists Foundation/now ARTneo/in Lakewood in 2000 and an exhibition at Tregoning & Co. in 2018. 

One of the handles has been reattached and there is chipping to the glaze near the area where it was reattached. There are two additional areas on one side of the sculpture that has some flaking/chipping to the glaze.

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