Estate Collection of Mary Hecht Bronze Sculptures and Paintings

Private Sale - Estate Collection of internationally known figurative Canadian Sculptress and Artist Mary Hecht (1931-2013). Collection includes more than twenty bronze cast sculptures and a variety of watercolour, pastel, ink drawings and other works. Hecht's works draw deep from the reservoir of human experience, the worlds of music, literature and drama, biblical themes and on events that have impinged on the collective consciousness. These compelling "impressionistic/expressionistic" forms in bronze and on paper testify to Hech'ts intuitive understanding and empathy with her fellow human beings. This is an opportunity to enhance your collection at pricing well below gallery prices for her works.

Centred around themes of wisdom, strength in adversity and emotional catharsis, Hecht's subject matter is often informed by issues in history, identity and myth from Judaic and classical traditions.

Mary Hecht was born in Manhattan, New York in 1931 and raised in Glen Falls, N.Y. . She emigrated to Canada in 1970 and attained dual Canadian/ U.S. citizenship in 1981. Her formal education began with a B.A. from the University of Cincinatti in 1952 and a Master of Arts at the University of Iowa in 1957 where she studied sculpture. During this period she also studied at art schools including the Art Students League and Columbia University in NYC (1949 -1953) and the Camberwell School in London, 1958-1960.

At Camberwell she learned the process of bronze casting. While there her friend told her abut Kenneth Armitage, a sculptor who worked by dripping wax on paper and using shapes to create an abstract sculpture and she adopted this process.

Mary Hecht returned to the U.S. with a finished wax and found the Modern Art Foundry where she was supported by the Spring family and worked doing some of the welding in the mid sixties until fatigue from her then undiagnosed MS forced her to resign. At home she refined her process learned at Camberwell of working with wax using bronze welding rods and welding one piece of wax to the others contiguous to it with a red hot knife. In the foundry she worked all the steps for the bronze doing the cleaning, finishing and controlling the colouring.

Her particular casting process used is also known as the lost wax method whereby the sculptural form is created when molten bronze replaces the original wax model. This labour intensive and ancient practice has been skillfully applied resulting in exceptional sculptures available for sale.

That's the how and when of her work, whereas the what of her work stems from Rodin as well as the French and German Expressionists of the early 20th century with echoes of the Byzantine. In the early 1950s she was greatly influenced by the sculptor Jacques Lipchitz and the original waxes that were in Degas' studio when it was reopened after WWII. Her studies after WW II veered towards Abstract Expressionism. The content of her faces come from Goya, Roualt, the Byzantine, Bernard Reder, Germaine Richier and Theodore Rozak and Rodin. From Beethoven, Stravinsky and Shubert to to Maimonides, Martin Buber and John des Posos. In one of her letters she writes "I was probably among the last Art students who learned to draw from the human figure, using the reality outside my eyes a well as its reality within my head...... I therefore call myself an Impressionist/Expressionist." Like Rodin's work though, she seeks to capture her figures in an instant of time to address the idea of the transitory aspect of nature.

Her sculptural works are extremely heavy not just in terms of physical weight, but in content as well. She writes "the sculptures come out deafening and turbulent, sonorous and powerful."

As noted, Mary Hecht's sculpture traces its sources from more than one stream, but most notably flows from Expressionism - Node, Krichner, Munsch, Beckmann - as well as the French tradition from Rodin and Lipschitz.

Mary Hecht was an elected member of both the American Society of Contemporary Artists and the Sculptor's Society of Canada. Her extensive exhibition history documents participation in approximately seventy (70) selected solo and group shows across North and South America and Europe. Her works are held in several international public and private collections. She has also taught at the Modern Art Foundry and York University.

Her paintings and drawings included in this estate collection reflect her signature aesthetic. They offer an intimate view of simultaneous developments of form across various media.

Rochelle Holt in 1998 writes "The consistent tendency towards, and significance of, figuration in twentieth century art in spite of forces of Conceptual Art, and Formalism raises question within issues around the body pertinent to contemporary discourse. The aesthetic, technical and critical aspects in the work of Mary Hecht place he as one of the "Foremost women of the XX Century".

This is an unprecedented opportunity to purchase her works privately at estate wind up pricing which is up to 80% below original gallery and art show prices. Some pieces are being sold at even below the original foundry costs alone. Call, e-mail or text for private viewing.

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HUNDREDS OF CHOICES: Click the link beside my name (Allan) to see my other 450+ ads featuring many more oil and watercolour paintings and lithographs and bronze sculptures for sale at well below gallery and decorating store prices, covering various genres from realism to impressionism, abstract to surreal works and from contemporary to post modern art. Choose from all types of artwork including traditional antique landscapes and marine oil paintings and 19th c. engravings, impressionistic and abstract landscapes, figurative paintings as well as Indigenous works, pop art and so much more. Both framed and unframed works are available. Also have antique maps of Germany, Turkey and Quebec from 1860s – 1880s.

BRITISH MUSEUM PIECES - I also have a set of two (2) extremely rare large coloured 1820 (mezzotint coloured) prints by G. Hunt of S. J. E. Jones Paintings of “Smugglers Alarmed” and “Smugglers Attacked” which hang in the British Museum in London. Click other ads to see detailed description and images.

LISTED ARTISTS: The oil and watercolour paintings and pencil signed and numbered silkscreen prints and lithographs are by listed Canadian and international artists including:

Amos Cassioly Andrew Plum Barrie Shaw Rimmington (Sculpture) Bob MacDougall Brian Marian Caven Atkins – Major listed Canadian artist – large watercolour Charles Bragg, Dana Hatchett, David Forrester Wilson (1873-1950) “Crashing Surf” Oil Painting David Lee, Doug Higgins Edna Hibel, Edouard Georges Mac-Avoy 1957 Abstract Edouard Pignon, Edouard Vuillard – “Place Vintimille” Etching, Famous French Artist Edward Lear – Antique Hand Coloured “Carrion Crow” Lithograph Emily Mary Bibbens Warren, Erik Nyholm, (CoBra Movement Artist) Ewa Stryjnik Fernando Castro Pacheco – Preeminent Listed Mexican Artist Francis Leke, Francoise Chaillet Frederic Marlett Bell – Smith RCA, Frieda Sohn, Gaston Rebry (Top Tier Quebec Artist) Georges Roualt – Three Heads (Les Visages) Engraving famous French Fauvist and Expressionistic Artist Gerald David Pedros Ghitta Caiserman Roth (R.C.A.) Gyula Marosan, - Listed Canadian Hungarian Artist Hargreaves Ntukwana – Famous South African Artist Collection Harriet Wolfe, Helen Eisen, Helga Zanders Putros Helmut Ackerman – Woodcuts of “Steppenwolf” by Herman Hesse Henry Moore – Major Canadian Artist Isidoro Ocampo – Listed Mexican artist Jacques Hurtubise, Silkscreen Print “Twiggy” Jan Marinus Letter Jan Zimmerman Jane Champagne, Jay Redbird, (Collection of Acrylic Indigenous Paintings on Paper in Gallery Frames) Jean Marzelle Joseph Drapell Josué Demarche Juan Gallegos, Judy Thurston, Julio Rosado, Julio Zachrisson, Klement Olsansky (RCA) Kristina Hyde, Lazlo Rozgonyi (Famous Hungarian Artist work from 1940s) (Hoi) Lebadang (Vietnamese French Artist) Leonor Fini, Louis Dobry, (Can. Hungarian artist Collection - colourful Toronto East End + Muskoka paintings) Lucretia Johnson, Lynn Kelly, Mario Merola, Mario Reyes, Marjolyn Van Der Hart Mary Hecht (including artwork and original bronze and terra cotta sculptures), Max Epstein, (Abstract Work on Plexiglass) Michael Close, Michael Forster Olivier Foss Pablo Picasso (Marina Picasso Collection of Lithographs), Pal Fried Pat Fairhead, Paul Fournier Paul Miller Paul Ygartua, (Jazz Series Paintings) Percy Harland Fisher (Famous British Artist) Peter Winchell Sager Rachel Ovadia Rick McCarthy (Collection of Watercolour, Pastels, Mixed Media and Oil Paintings) Rod Prouse, (Collection of more than ten (10) Oil, Watercolour paintings and silkscreen prints gallery framed) Roland Oudot Rolph Scarlett – Canadian born, famous avant-garde abstract painter – with works in Guggenheim Museum. Unique, Non Objective, expressionistic abstraction style. Saul Field – Collection of Lithographs Serge Deherian, (Collection of more than ten (10) Abstract Picasso style paintings framed and unframed) Sheldon Zuker, (Collection of Abstract Paintings) Shonagh Adelman, (Feminist Artist) Susan Scott Thomas Bamford Tilya Helfield, (Collection of lithographs and pastel paintings) Vera Fischer, (Collection of Impressionistic landscapes and floral works framed and unframed) Victor Colesnicenco aka Nemo Violette Milliquet Wayne Ensland William Abernathy Ogilvie (1901-1989) – Canada’s top Watercolourist William Hogarth – Antique 1782 Engraving “Shrimps” William Simpson - “Seat of War in the East” Engravings from 1856 Wynona Mulcaster, Yehuda Rodan Yvonne McKague Housser , CM, RCA – Associated with Arthur Lismer and Lawren Harris Zsolt Nagy, (Collection of 15 Cabbagetown streetscapes and idyllic children beach scenes) Zvi Ehrman,

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CONVENIENT APPOINTMENTS: Home days and evenings as I work from home.

Located in Thornhill near Bathurst south of the 407.

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Wide selection of exceptional antique frames great for your own framing or for inserting and hanging a mirror. Plus spare cut glass available if you are framing watercolours or prints as low as $5 a sheet!

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OTHER CONTENTS AND RECORDS: Also selling high end glass top dining table with William Switzer “Biedermeir” hand carved mahogany chairs (see williamswitzer.com) as well as a custom hand crafted solid birds eye maple entertainment unit 11’ long and 7 ½ ‘ wide – sacrifice sale at 90% off original price. Plus I’m selling my vinyl record collection including classic rock, progressive rock, 70s to 90s pop, jazz, folk, country and rare classical records at prices half or lower than those online mostly near mint condition. Sold individually with volume discounts. In addition, I have a collection of signed and numbered limited edition photographic prints of Rock artists by Barrie Wentzell. I’m also selling my antiquarian and modern first edition book collection.

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LOCATION – Thornhill just west of Bathurst Street and south of the 407

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