"FUNNY FISH ON FUNNY CAR Painted wood - L. 44... Lot 9

"FUNNY FISH ON FUNNY CAR Painted wood - L. 44 cm Work by Joseph KURHAJEC, published in ""Making toys"" Hommage to Alexandre CALDER - section ""funny fish on funny cars"" Joseph KURHAJEC - 2020 Joseph KURHAJEC, born in Wisconsin in 1938, is an internationally renowned artist. Blending ceramics, stone, horn, rope, fur and bones, his "charged" compositions become the masks and fetishes of an imaginary primitive civilization. After exhibiting in numerous galleries and museums around the world, he settled in Paris in 1987, where he began creating his own toys, notably after meeting Alexandre CALDER. The piece presented here was offered to his friend Jacques BECUWE, who donated it to the Association".