RARE piece by Jere' from 1994

3D Fruits and Vegetables market with a bike Vendor cart. It is a wall hanging and has hangers on the back of it

Artist's signature on the piece

It is in excellent condition...I see no faults or issues or damage to this piece.

I looked EVERYWHERE for this particular piece and could not find ANY like this one!

Don't know if it was a "one and only" or not but I cannot find any data on this bike Vendor stand with Fruits and Vegetables. if this IS a one and only then it's probably worth way more than what I'm asking.

If you know more about this particular piece please feel free to share that with me.

This one is from an Estate and was found in Denver, Colorado

If you don't like the price...make me an offer. I'm not stuck on my price just had to have some kind of starting point.

It is a pretty heavy piece so shipping would be around $75 for it...less if you live closer to Kansas City.

It's available for local pick up as well.

34" long or wide x8" depth x 18" tall

C. Jeré is a metalwork artist of wall sculptures and household accessories.

C. Jeré works are made and marketed by the corporation Artisan House. Curtis Jere is a compound nom-de-plume of artists Curtis Freiler and Jerry Fels. The two founders combined pieces oftheir own names to create the C. Jeré signature. Modernism magazine interviewed Jerry Fels shortly before his death in October 2008. According to the resulting article in the Spring 2007 issue of Modernism magazine page 116, the company was founded in 1963 by Fels and his brother-in-law Curtis (Kurt) Freiler. Freiler was the production chief and Fels was head of design. Their goal was to produce "gallery-quality art for the masses". Prior to the establishment of Artisan House, the partners built a costume jewellery business, selling work under the names Renoir and Matisse, which employed around 300 people at one point. [1] Kurt and Jerry sold Artisan House in 1972. Kurt Freiler died July 22, 2013 at the age of 103. [2]

Sold and resold, the company still produces metal sculptures including reintroductions of popular mid-century designs. Artisan House sculptures are no longer made in California. Production went overseas to China in 2003.

Writer Mitchell Owens wrote a two-page article on the history of C. Jere for the November 2010 issue of Elle Decor . In it he states that "Today those pieces are attracting the admiration of leading dealers in vintage chic". He goes on to say that after launching in 1964 Jere sculptures were "distributed by Raymor, a cutting edge studio in New York City, and retailed at Gump's in San Francisco and other high quality emporiums". He also reported that "Under Freiler's meticulous direction, the workers - a number of whom were minorities or handicapped - sheared, crimped, torched, and welded brass, copper, and other metals before coating them with luminous patinas." [3]

C. Jeré works range from representational to highly abstract. Some of the older techniques, such as enameling, using resin, and the bronzes, haven't been used in decades.