Provenance: Private collection, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.

"A few days ago I watched my three-year old son study and then touch a small Bertoia sculpture which stands in our living room ... His eyes were shining, and he would not leave the sculpture alone for a long time.

In my gallery I have often observed similar reactions and have wondered about the irresistible temptation Bertoia's constructions evoke in various kinds of people. From shy caresses with one finger to abandoned symphonic involvement, with both hands — people find it difficult to resist these seductive sculptures, which always eventually return, after enveloping us in happy sound, to their ordered and balanced visual entity.

Everything Harry Bertoia has designed throughout the last twenty-five years has expressed in one way or another his pleasure in being alive, in harmonious proportion, in the combination of clean function and human warmth." Quote George W. Staempfli, 1976, from http://www.harrybertoia.com