Lot 721
Feliciano Bejar (Mexican/American, 1920-2007), "Janus Magiscope", 1978, carved mirrored glass and steel, signed and dated "78" en verso, mirrored crystal, diameter 11 in., height 29 1/4 in. Provenance: Purchased from Sandra Zahn Oreck Gallery and Sculpture Studio, New Orleans, to Sydney Besthoff III, New Orleans. Note: A primarily a self-taught artist, Bejar's formal education was severely limited by his family's financial situation and by the nearly paralytic polio which struck him at the age of 8. He briefly attended the Salesian College school before that institution was closed by the government. Bejar believed this lack of education allowed him a free approach to his art. Known for his experimental pieces incorporating metal, glass, plastic, and crystal, Bejar began working in the 70s on a series of optic sculptures he referred to as magiscopes; the present lot is a particularly fine example of this type of work. Bejar's work has been exhibited extensively since he had his first solo show at the Ward Eggleston Gallery in New York in 1948, and his sculptures are in the permanent collections of numerous museums.
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