Cast Bronze Banana....Artist Unknown??..ID Help!!

Discussion in 'Art' started by SPERLS, Feb 15, 2015.

  1. SPERLS

    SPERLS sperls

    No markings...Very accurate design...solid bronze banana on "screwy" legs.
    7-1/2" Long...Any help apprecired...
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  2. Bakersgma

    Bakersgma Well-Known Member

    I know this isn't much (any) help... but I think you just won the prize for Bizarre Item of the Month!
     
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  3. Messilane

    Messilane Well-Known Member

    Do those nails/screws actually work as feet? The look like they are a little wonky for that.
    And to me, they look like part of the design since they "appear" to be holding the different parts of the peel in place.
    (I would have bought it too. :) )
     
  4. SPERLS

    SPERLS sperls

    Messilane,I never noticed that...The screws are holding the peels in place!! IMG_2890.JPG
    They also sorta serve as feet.

    Bakergma...I bought it because it was Bizarre!
     
  5. elarnia

    elarnia SIWL

    This from the Seattle Times july 21 2013 might explain the three screws:

    The Seattle art pranksters’ new show at Greg Kucera Gallery is titled, appropriately, “Three Way.” And its most revealing piece may be “Self-Portrait’: three steel handcuffs firmly chained together. (Artists John Sutton, Ben Beres and Zac Culler, it seems, are irrevocably linked to each other for eternity.) The rest of the show is heavy on bronzes: bronze light bulbs, bronze light switches, a bronze banana peel, a bronze mop and, most tellingly, a bronze “Masterpiece” that’s both visually striking and empty of content (it’s just a sagging bronze frame and guard rope). 10:30 a.m.-5:30 p.m. Tuesday-Saturday through Aug. 17, Greg Kucera Gallery, 212 Third Ave. S., Seattle (206-624-0770)

    http://seattletimes.com/html/entertainment/2021413249_weekahead21xml.html

    The gallery website is www.gregkucera.com
    Might be worth an inquiry.
     
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  6. Messilane

    Messilane Well-Known Member

    WOW! Good research!
     
  7. afantiques

    afantiques Well-Known Member

    If the 'feet' are also bronze and cast as part of the whole, I suspect that someone has made a cast then a mound from an actual banana. This is not art, it's foundry work. Clever craftsmanship,but as arty as a brick.

    The feet I envisage as a way of supporting the banana while making the original cast of it.

    Calling everything art equates a mudpie with a Rodin, and the world has lost its marbles when some idiot buys the mudpie for Rodin prices.

    The Emperor has been walking around naked for decades. A chorus of phonies with a vested interest in selling invisible clothes have quite drowned out the odd voice saying 'Why has that silly old man got no clothes on'
     
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  8. Bakersgma

    Bakersgma Well-Known Member

    Very interesting, elarnia! But the date of the article makes me wonder. Not even 2 years ago.

    Where did you find this, Sperls?
     
  9. SPERLS

    SPERLS sperls

  10. Messilane

    Messilane Well-Known Member

    I like your banana better than that one.
     
  11. SPERLS

    SPERLS sperls

    I found it at an estate sale in Chicago....The feet are not bronze...They are steel.
     
  12. Bakersgma

    Bakersgma Well-Known Member

    Yours is more realistic as an over-ripe banana - right down to the color of the peel.
     
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  13. fidbald

    fidbald Well-Known Member

    perhaps fixed on the door or fence of a fruit dealer ?
     
  14. silverthwait

    silverthwait Well-Known Member

    Created by Richard Foster, New Orleans Crime Commission Chairman.
     
  15. gregsglass

    gregsglass Well-Known Member

    One of my favorites especially still flaming.
    greg
     
  16. silverthwait

    silverthwait Well-Known Member

    Thank you, Greg!
     
  17. say_it_slowly

    say_it_slowly The worst prison is a closed heart

    I love your banana! It's fun and I'd buy it!
     
  18. fidbald

    fidbald Well-Known Member

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    from an entrance of a fish dealer in Prague
     
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