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Beatrice (Beato) Wood

Beatrice (Beato) Wood (1893 - 1998) was active/lived in California.  Beatrice Wood is known for Ceramic vessels, collage.

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Living 105 years, Beatrice Wood was a noted ceramist and also a sparkling personality in the New York art world in the early 20th century. She was friends with early Dadaists Man Ray, Marcel Duchamp, Isadora Duncan, Francis Picabia, and, because of these associations, was dubbed the "Mama of Dada". Man Ray spoke of her "demurely raunchy wit and famed naughtiness, your bohemianism . . . and extraordinary sense of personal style. . . and her lustrous, opulent ceramic vessels" ("Art in America" 1/98).

She was born into an affluent family and studied at the University of Southern California and with Glen Lukens. At age 18, she went to Paris and became friends and lovers in a menage a trois arrangement with Man Ray and his friend Henri-Pierre Roche. Later, Roche's novel, "Jules et Jim" was based on this relationship. In New York, the three of them founded the magazine "Blind man", one of the earliest manifestoes of the Dada movement.

She moved to Los Angeles in 1928 and began   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 3096 characters.]  Artist bio

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Exceptional chalice , c 1985

Beatrice (Beato) Wood

Lot 134
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Vase

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Handled vase with faces , 1993

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Lot 155
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Figural coupes, pair , c 1997

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Lot 157
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Untitled (marriage)

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Lot 635
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Figural vase

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Lot 96
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