Lalaounis 1970 the Dawn of Art Clips on Earrings in Hammered 18kt Yellow Gold

Clips-on earrings designed by Zolotas. Magnificent pair of clips-on earrings, created in Athens Greece by the jewelry makers of Zolotas, back in the late 1970's. These gorgeous pair of earrings are a real statement and was carefully crafted with ancient Greece technique in solid rich yellow gold of 22 karats with brushed and hammered finishes. They were designed as a left and right pair, with fluted patterns and are fitted at the reverse with comfortable hinged French omega backs for fastening clips. The addition of gold posts for pierced ears can be easily done. Weight: 29.85 Grams, (19.15 Dwt). Measurements: 45 mm by 27 mm (1.85 x 1.06 Inches). Hallmarks: They are both stamped with Greek marks, the maker's mark, the mark for the assay and warranty of the .916/.999 gold and signed as follows, "ZOLOTAS GREECE 22KT AM24". History of Zolotas The firm of Zolotas, was founded in Athens in 1895 by Efthimios Zolotas. The jewelry of Zolotas is very well known for their designs inspired by Greek antiquity. In the 1950, they made the decision to create the trademark and branches out into international markets. It was also during this era that the jewelry House of Zolotas began crafting what would become their ancient Greek signature style. In a gorgeous combination of modern and ancient styles. The high karat gold jewelry was fashioned using traditional techniques and motifs with contemporary flair. The symbols which had been sacred to the Greek culture some thousands of years prior were now manifested in ram, lion, snake and bull jewelry...

A pair of Earrings designed by Ilias Lalaounis. Beautiful and rare geometric pieces, created in Greece by the jewelry house of Lalaounis, back in the 1970's. These gorgeous clip earrings has been carefully crafted in solid yellow gold of 18 karats, with textured and polished finish. Suited at the reverse with omega backs for fastening clips. The option of posts for pierced ears can be easily added. They have a combined weight of 20.6 Grams and a measurements of 23.5 mm by 26 mm (0.93 X 1.02 Inches). Both are stamped, with the maker's mark, the gold assay hallmark and signed. "LALAOUNIS A10 750 GREECE". Literature: Ilias Lalaounis, Metamorphoses, book, in the Classical and Hellenistic Greece...

Sculptural clip earrings designed by Liuba Wolf. Extremely rare sculptural clips on earrings, created in Sao Paulo Brazil by the artist Liuba Wolf, back in the 1970. This fantastic pair is a one of a kind and has been crafted with concretism art patterns in solid rich yellow of of 18 karats with textured surfaces. The figurative pieces are completely chiseled with irregular finishes and sharp edges Designed as a left and right pair and fitted with posts for pierced ears and comfortable omega backs for fastening clips. Weight: 18.30 Grams, (11.73 Dwt). Measurements: 18 mm by 15 mm (0.71 x 0.59 Inches). Hallmarks: Stamped with the designer artist name, the mark for the assay of the gold, the edition number and signed, "LIUBA .750 1/30". Edition: Brazil Sao Paulo 1/30, the authorized edition was only of 30 but the production was never completed and only the number 1 was made. Liuba Wolf She born as Liuba Boyadjieva in Sofia Bulgaria in 1923. She was raised in a privileged, cultivated milieu by a writer mother and industrialist father who (he also played the violin) instilled in her a taste for music. The artist received a humanistic education, studying Greek and Latin and mastering the piano. When her family moved to Geneva, she attended art school and developed a special interest in sculpture. Later, she studied in Zurich under Germaine Richier (1904-1958), a renowned artist of the Paris School. This contact with Germaine Richier had a strong impact on Liuba Boyadjieva’s education as a modern sculpture and left a deep imprint on her understanding of sculpture. In those years, in Zurich, she was also in contact with a group of important artists, like, among others, Marino Marini and Arthur Honnegger. At the end of the war, when Richier reopened her atelier in Paris, Liuba moved to the French capital and continued her studies with her teacher until 1949. Her social circle in France included Zadkine, Viera da Silva, Alberto Magnelli, among others. She traveled often throughout Europe and visited the most important museums. Liuba Boyadjieva came to Brazil, married the industrialist and collector Ernesto Wolf in 1958, and lived between São Paulo and Paris, keeping studios in both cities. She became a naturalized Brazilian citizen. She developed a personal way of working her sculptures and achieved full artistic maturity. In the 1960s and 1970s, Liuba Wolf exhibited her work in several cities around the world and achieved international recognition. In 2001, on the occasion of her exhibition at Achim Moeller Fine Art. Rizzoli (New York) published a book celebrating Wolf’s art and featuring Sam Hunter’s essay “Liuba: At the Edge of Abstraction.” Among the central features of Liuba Wolf’s work are her expressive power, the surface’s play between the smooth and the textured, and rusticity. Verticality is another key characteristic, as well as the gesturalism of the forms. Figurative early on in her career, Wolf’s works became abstracted starting in the 1950s, but there always remained an archaic memory that referred back to primitive archetypes. Some critics, like Sam Hunter, see in those shapes a reference to pre-Columbian realities. Another highlight is a degree of surrealism in Wolf’s abstraction, yet critics mostly underscore the fact that she situated her sculptures at the border between abstraction and figuration, as well as the force of imagination in the conception of the works. On more than one occasion Liuba Wolf said that her forms are born from the subconscious. For her, they are “bugs”, animals, but they can also be plants or roots. They could be totems, in a symbiosis between the animal and the plant worlds, according to another observer, artist Emmanoel Araújo. Liuba Wolf stated once in an interview that her work “finds inspiration in natural shapes.” The exhibition at the Lasar Segall...

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