10.17.2010

my favorite dealer: jere barnard

Jere
is probably the 
dealer 
I look most 
forward to seeing 
at the few shows where he sets-up.
He has an amazing eye,
one of the very best.
He buys what he likes,
and puts together a booth of "high" modernism
and "low" folk art.
Something
that is not easy to do.
He makes no distinctions, one is not any better than the other 
and that is
 what makes it great.
Two of my favorite Jere Barnard purchases:
High:
 A world-class Schindler plywood chair.
Low:
 A soft-core pornographic photorealistic 
Tupperware cup carved with a sharpened paperclip
 by a prisoner.
Both were
AMAZING,
neither one any "better" than the other.
(We DID pay just a BIT more for the Schindler....)

So 
here are some of the 
highlights 
from this show's
booth,
shot on a late Sunday afternoon,
3 days after
Jere had sold many of his amazing finds....

Enamel Art Deco Tray
Alexander Girard "Doll"
 Missile Nose Cones Model

Funny Hand Painted Sign of Some Sort

Lucite Encased Weirdness

"Why don't you come up and look at my etchings."
Letter from Andre Kertesz.

Anonymous Carved Wooden Nude
Ruth Reeves Plastic Platter
Smashed Heathy Choice Can in Lucite

"Prouve" Aluminum Rat Trap

Amazing Painted Plywood Kids Chair
FLW Fabric

Aluminum Art Deco Sculpture
Rock Vase
Cowan Ceramic Head

 Hippy Mobile

Killer Austrian Enamel Box

 Stand on Bench

Liberty Stool

Cubist Kids Clothes Rack

Bel Geddes "Soda King" 
Book I should have bought.
Auböck Hand Opener

Detail of
Aesthetic Movement Chair

Sold!

5 comments:

  1. Wow. REALLY good mix of stuff. Thanks for sharing.

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  2. esp. the rats died by grace of design.

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  3. no pics of the Schindler chair?!

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  4. I'll take one of each, not least: Girard doll, hippie mobile, cubist kids rack.

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  5. totally fantastic! wow.

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