BEATRICE WOOD Beato Monumental Gold IRIDESCENT Luster Art Pottery Bowl

Beatrice Wood (Beato) monumental earthenware pottery bowl. Heavily textured pottery with gold iridescent luster glaze. Signed Beato at base. Purchased from Garth Clark Gallery in the 80's. This piece dates from the 50's.
Measures 14 1/2" x 4 3/4" tall.

A stunning example of her fine work. This piece is in excellent condition, light chip at rim, please review photographs. No other chips, cracks, or repairs.

Beatrice Wood (1893 - 1998) was an American artist known as the "Mama of Dada" for her association with the Dada movement and her pioneering work with luster-glazed ceramics. Born in San Francisco in 1893, she defied her wealthy family to become an artist and writer, co-founding the Dada art journal The Blind Man with Marcel Duchamp. Wood began her prolific career in ceramics at age 40, eventually becoming famous for her distinctive lustrous pottery and later for her figurative sculptures and autobiographical writings. She continued to create art until her death at 105, leaving a legacy celebrated in museum collections worldwide and the Beatrice Wood Center for the Arts

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