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Property from the Collection of David Moss

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Harry Bertoia

"Sonambient" sounding sculpture

Estimate
$15,000 - 20,000
$21,420
Lot Details
Beryllium copper, bronze.
1970s
17 x 10 x 10 in. (43.2 x 25.4 x 25.4 cm)
Together with a certificate of authenticity from the Harry Bertoia Foundation and with a crate made by the owner.
Catalogue Essay
The present lot is the second Sonambient that Harry Bertoia gifted to musician David Moss. With a particularly bright and intense sound, it features a single tone with a large range of harmonics.

While Moss toured and performed with his collection of Sonambients, he also developed a percussion program for public schools. At school assemblies he would invite students to place their heads inside the wooden resonator box he built for this work so they could “really hear these new sounds.”

Harry Bertoia

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