Pair of HAV Cast Relief Plaques, 1979 — Nude with Shells & Corn View Watchlist >
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Lot # G312
System ID # 30169460
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Pair of HAV Cast Relief Plaques, 1979 — Nude with Shells & Corn
A matched pair of cast relief plaster plaques, each incised at the lower left with the artist's monogram HAV and dated 79. Both are built up over a wood substrate, the surfaces washed in cream, ochre, and gray pigment, and worked in low relief with natural forms pressed directly into the medium — scallop shells, a pinecone, a dried corncob, and softly modeled female nudes emerging from the plaster ground. The whole reads as a set of imagined fossil slabs, part beachcomber's cabinet, part reliquary.
One panel centers a standing nude flanked by two fanned scallop shells with a pinecone at the upper left; its companion embeds a reclining figure within a shell-like cartouche beside an impressed ear of corn. Both are wall mountable, with mounting hardware set into the reverse.
CONDITION
Good overall. Both plaques show chipping to the edges and corners with visible finish loss to the plaster face, and one panel has a separation running along the substrate seam at the edge. Structurally sound and stable for hanging; wear is consistent with the cast plaster medium and age.
DIMENSIONS / SPECIFICATIONS
- Plaque 1: 10 1/4" H × 13" W × 3" D
- Plaque 1 Weight: 7 lbs 8 oz
- Plaque 2: 10" H × 13" W × 2 1/2" D
- Plaque 2 Weight: 6 lbs 6 oz
- Signed: HAV, dated 79, lower left (both)
- Medium: Cast pigmented plaster over wood
- Wall mountable — hardware set into reverse
