Los Angeles Modern Auctions (LAMA)

An Oregon native who worked in Paris, San Francisco, and Venice, California throughout her career, Claire Falkenstein explored many mediums including sculpture, paintings, prints, wallpaper, and jewelry. Falkenstein’s metal sculpture and sculptural jewelry made from gold, silver, platinum, bronze, copper, and steel ignored popular trends at the time. While working in Italy in the 1950s Falksenstein made one of her greatest discoveries. She developed a way to “fuse” together glass and metal into single pieces. This technique became synonymous with her creative process and influenced her experimental jewelry-making and sculpture production.