Jemez Story Teller / Funt Collection by Wanda Aragon For Sale

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Jemez Story Teller / Funt Collection by Wanda Aragon

Late 20th Century

3.5" H x 5.25" D

Note one bowl had broken and was glued, the metate is loose.

Excellent Condition

Wanda Aragon(b.1948) is well known for her intricately painted miniature pottery. Each piece is coil built and painted with native clay slips and wild-spinach plant. Wanda is a daughter of Frances Torivio and a sister of Lilly Salvador and a mother-in-law of Dolores Aragon.

From the Alan Funt private collection (Producer of TV Candid Camera)

​The Allen Funt Collection

Brazil Ranch

Allen Funt acquired the 1,226 acre ocean front Brazil Ranch, with 2 miles of Pacific Ocean frontage, located immediately south of the Bixby Bridge in Big Sur, California, in 1973. A large portion of Funt’s profits, from his successful Candid Camera television show, was spent on his acquiring the Funt Ranch and building 20,000 sq. ft. of improvements on the property. Funt became a major horse breeder and won manytrophies stemming from his breeding Quarter Horses on the Funt Ranch. Funt furnished and kept his Ranch like a museum. He rarely let visitors, includingfamily members, visit or stay overnight on the Ranch. Funts’s ranch home wasimmaculately staged and furnished and Funt carefully acquired hundreds of American Indian sculptures, carvings, leather works, dolls, paintings and artifacts.

Funt at one time owned the largest collection of paintings of the once forgotten painter Sir Lawrence Alma Tadema. His 35 Alma Tadema paintings were the most ever owned by one collector. Funt purchased Alma Tadema’s works from 1965 until 1973 and sold these works in a famous sale in 1973 to fund his purchase of his Big Sur ranch. These Alma Tadema works today, have increased enormously in value and would today be worth well over $100,000,000. One of his paintings, The Finding of Moses, sold at Sotheby’s in 2010 for $35,900,000.

Allen Funt’s health deteriorated after he suffered a stroke in 1993. His children listed the property for sale at that time and it finally sold in January, 2001, together will all contents, to Bixby Ocean Ranches LLC. The Ranch was subsequently sold later in 2001 to The National Park Service and it now is protected in perpetuity and provides Ocean front access to the Las Padres National Forest. The contents of the home consisting of American Indian works collected by Alan Funt, from 1973 until his stroke in 1993, are now offered for sale by the one of the principals of Bixby Ocean Ranches LLC.

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