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Vanje

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3. I bought a kinetic sculpture at a garage sale
Wed Apr 25, 2012, 06:50 PM
Apr 2012

in Homedale, Idaho.
It needed restoration, and was in pretty poor shape.
It cost me 15 bucks.
It is MESMERIZING!

I did some research on the piece, and even talked and exchanged letters with the artist, Stan Bennett (died last fall).

Here is a you-tube interview with the artist, showing some of his work.





The piece I have is very like the large marble machine at the very end of the video.

Mine is one of Stans early works : One of the 17 he made for "The Sweet Factory", a candy store in Nevada.

(The Sweet Factory paid 3 grand for the sculpture in the early seventies)

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A thrift-store Picasso? [View all] Mosby Mar 2012 OP
Wow - that's my fantasy. Even finding a print is amazing. Vinca Apr 2012 #1
I have a similar fantasy... wyldwolf Apr 2012 #2
I bought a kinetic sculpture at a garage sale Vanje Apr 2012 #3
wow, that sounds like fun! grasswire Apr 2012 #4
poster skippercollector Apr 2012 #5
+1 McCIoud Dec 2012 #6
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