Glassing the North Slope Sculpture by Earl Erik Heikka
Lot #3
Item: bce9-4001058

White Bear Lake, MN

This Lot is:

Closed

Thu, Apr 20, 2023 7:37pm CDT

High Bidder: #50631

Current Bid:

$920.00

Next Required Bid: $970.00

Reserve Not Met

Location / Contact:
4593 Moon Lake Court, White Bear Lake, MN 55127
Phone: 612-423-8882

Lot Description:

"Glassing The North Slope" Sculpture by Earl Erik Heikka measuring 33x10.5x15 inches. 

  • Earl E. Heikka was born in Belt, Montana in 1910 to Finnish parents and subsequently lived and worked in Great Falls, Montana. Heikka is best known for his sculptures depicting Western themes, including animals, miners, Native Americans, and cowboys, that accurately and acutely capture the realism and emotion observed in nature. It was noted that, even as a small child, he had always demonstrated a skill and interest in illustrating wildlife. However, Heikka never received formal training in the fine arts nor attended art school. Nevertheless, Heikka's various occupational experiences afforded him not only the opportunity to study nature, but also to replicate it. He worked as a taxidermist at the Great Falls Sporting Goods Company, was a ranch hand at the Skelton Brothers Ranch near the Highwood Mountains, was a park guide at Glacier National Park, and worked at actor Gary Cooper's family ranch. His background in taxidermy allowed him to further develop his study of animals, which he utilized in his sculptures. Furthermore, Heikka shared Great Falls with prominent Western artist Charles M. Russell, whom he was greatly inspired by, and a number of Heikka's sculptures currently remain in the permanent collection of the C.M. Russell Museum in Great Falls. 

    During his tenure at the Cooper family ranch, Heikka was invited by Gary Cooper to set up a private studio on the property in 1929. The Hollywood actor would serve as a model for Heikka's 1937 sculpture, "Gambler's Luck." It was through Cooper that Heikka was introduced to numerous future patrons of his art, including William Andrews Clark, III, the grandson of mining mogul William A. Clark as well as John D. Ryan, the organizer of the Montana Power Company. Heikka would go on to exhibit works at the Stendahl Galleries in Los Angeles' Ambassador Hotel in 1931, at Chicago's 1933 Century of Progress Exposition, and at the 1939 Golden Gate International Exposition in San Francisco. 

    Heikka's original sculptures were hand-painted clay executed in Marblex, a water-based air-drying clay, modeled over a wire armature that would have been further wrapped with fine wire around the exterior in order to lend the pieces better adhesion for the clay. Following a period of grief over the death of his brother and later estrangement from his wife, Heikka committed suicide in 1941 at the age of thirty-one. It was not until the 1960s, however, that collectors began producing editioned bronze casts of his clay sculptures, which became highly sought after and posthumously earned Heikka his reputation as a notable Western artist.


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Inspection

Auction Closing:

Thu, Apr 20, 2023
07:35 pm

Removal:

Sat, Apr 22, 2023
10:00 am - 04:00 pm

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Bid Range Minimum Increment
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$75.01 - $150.00 $5.00
$150.01 - $250.00 $10.00
$250.01 - $500.00 $25.00
$500.01 - $1,000.00 $50.00
$1,000.01 - $5,000.00 $75.00
$5,000.01 - $50,000.00 $100.00
$50,000.01 - $75,000.00 $250.00
$75,000.01 - $100,000.00 $500.00
$100,000.01 - $2,500,000.00 $1,000.00

Hammer Price TierBuyer's PremiumCap
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$5,000.00 - infinity 10.00%$1,000.00


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4593 Moon Lake Court
White Bear Lake
MN, 55127


Phone: 612-423-8882
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Bid History

2 Bid(s)
Bidder Placed High Bid
50631
Apr 20 07:20pm
$920.00
155623
Apr 19 10:10am
$525.00