Click the FOLLOW button to be the first to know about this artist's upcoming lots, sold lots, exhibitions and articles
Ursula von Rydingsvard is an American Postwar & Contemporary sculptor who was born in 1942. Her work is currently being shown at Bruce Museum in Greenwich. Numerous key galleries and museums such as Galerie Lelong & Co., New York have featured Ursula von Rydingsvard's work in the past.Ursula von Rydingsvard's work has been offered at auction multiple times, with realized prices ranging from 225 USD to 200,000 USD, depending on the size and medium of the artwork. Since 2004 the record price for this artist at auction is 200,000 USD for Ona, sold at Christie's New York in 2020. Ursula von Rydingsvard has been featured in articles for , and . The most recent article is written for Glasstire in March 2025.
Artist's alternative names: Ursula van Rydingsvard
Stirred by the inauguration of 鈥淟and art鈥 with Alan Sonfist's Time Landscape (1965鈥1978鈥揚resent), and spurred by the site-specific public art commissions that soon followed by artists like Robert Smithson, Michael Heizer.
鈥
..Celebrated as one of the most influential sculptors working today, Ursula von Rydingsvard is best known for her monumental works and signature use of cedar wood...
鈥
鈥
..Von Rydingsvard is best known for creating large-scale, often monumental sculpture from cedar beams, which she painstakingly cuts, assembles, glues, clamps, and laminates, finally rubbing powdered graphite...
鈥
鈥
..Drawing on a range of sources, from the humble to the majestic, von Rydingsvard's work is recognized for its great psychological force and powerful physical presence...
鈥
鈥
..Von Rydingsvard's most enduring form is the bowl, which may appear as a shallow or towering form, and may alternately evoke nourishment, domesticity, the body, a simple enclosure, or a mountain, among...
鈥