Estate Yellow Gold and Pearl Ring by Ed Wiener

Estate Yellow Gold and Pearl Ring by Ed Wiener; 18k yellow gold; 4.8dwt/7.44g; Ring Size 5 Ed Wiener is among the noted modernist jewelry designers who worked as a studio artist from the 1940's onward. He was inspired by the creative atmosphere of Provincetown Massachusetts, and, along with his wife, he opened his first shop there in 1946. Even after he moved to his New York studios and galleries, he maintained a summer gallery in Provincetown until 1965. Influenced by Picasso and Calder, Wiener's jewelry art began with bent-wire monogram pins, which he sold to interested friends. This ring represents Wiener's later work in 14k gold and gemstones. In this period, his jewels displayed a marriage of eastern and western styles, inspired by studies of medieval art he had seen in Paris, and observations of Jaipur gem-cutters at work in India. The effect is almost Byzantine in style.