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Bidding is now open for our Fine Art, Jewelry, Design & Asian Art auction, Day 2 of our three-day December sale, featuring paintings, prints, sculpture, fine jewelry, watches, porcelain and Asian works of art. Highlights include a George Gardner Symons 'Winter River' oil on canvas, an 18K gold Tiffany & Co. Mark Coupe resonator watch and a Dale Chihuly "Persian Set," alongside works by Bridget Riley, Joan Miró, Rufino Tamayo and Chen Chi-Kwan, and more. Auction is Wednesday, December 2nd at 1 PM CST. Local pickup is December 7th, 8th and 9th from 1 to 5 PM at 5263 Edina Industrial Blvd, Edina, MN. Shipping is available on all lots.
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Lot 302

Judy Kensley McKie "Ibis Ascending" Bronze Maquette

Estimate: $4,000 - $6,000
Starting Bid
$2,500

Bid Increments

Price Bid Increment
$0 $5
$50 $10
$250 $25
$1,000 $50
$2,000 $100
$4,000 $250
$10,000 $500
$20,000 $1,000
$50,000 $2,500
$100,000 $5,000
$500,000 $10,000

Signed at the base of the sculpture. 

Date: 2002

Limited Edition: 3/50

 

Dimensions: 19" Tall 

 

Condition: The sculpture is in overall good condition. A few very minor spots of loss to the finish. Please see images for details. 

 

Artist Bio: Judy Kensley McKie (b. 1944) is one of the defining figures of the American studio furniture movement. Born in Boston, she trained as a painter at the Rhode Island School of Design and taught herself woodworking out of necessity, building furniture for her own home. Working in a cooperative shop in Boston, she began in 1975 to carve low relief animals into the surfaces of her pieces, and over the following decade the animals moved from the surface into the structure itself, becoming the legs, arms, backs and supports of chairs, tables and cabinets.

Drawing on the totemic animals of pre-Columbian, African and Native American art, McKie developed a vocabulary of birds, cats, monkeys, fish and serpents that is at once playful and severe. She increasingly cast her designs in bronze, producing benches, tables and sconces as well as freestanding sculpture, and her work is in the collection of the Smithsonian American Art Museum. She was named a Fellow of the American Craft Council in 1998 and received its Gold Medal in 2022. "Ibis Ascending" carries that vocabulary into freestanding bronze.

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