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Show Family Jewels exhibit to include s pieces by Miro, Dali, Edsberg ! - - ; 1 ' ' , I 1 bv Nan C'halat Collecting investment-quality investment-quality art work is a little like playing the stock market. You can play it safe by purchasing pieces by acknowledged ac-knowledged masters like Salvador Dali and Miro. Or you can go out on a limb with a new artist who may be on his way up like Soren Edsberg. Nina Macheel and Bill Kranstover, who collect work by all three of these artists, have recently begun to help their friends find and acquire investment-worthy art. As port of that effort, they are presenting an exhibit of lithographs and paintings by Dali, Miro and Edsberg at the Family Jewels beginning this Saturday. "Kranny (Kranstover) and I love art," said Macheel. "It is one of our shared passions. And it gives us pleasure to supply beautiful pieces of art for other people. The fact that it also works as an investment is a nice side effect." Macheel and Kranstover have been studying the art market for several years with Hemming Hall, an internationally interna-tionally known art dealer. Through Hall, the Kran-stovers Kran-stovers first purchased several sev-eral lithographs by Salvador Dali which had been on exhibit at the Kimball Art Center. "We started investing in Dali because he is still affordable and because we believe that he is one of our great masters. His paintings This lithograph by Joan Miro and others by Salvador Dali and Soren Edsberg will be on exhibit at the Family Jewels. are tremendously imaginative. imagina-tive. It's like they talk to you and everytime you look at them you see something new," said Macheel. The exhibit at the Family Jewels will include several limited edition lithographs of paintings paint-ings and studies by Dali. The Kranstovers soon added add-ed several lithographs by . Joan Miro to their collection and they are in the process now of acquiring a piece by Alexander Calder. "Our long-term goal is to acquire a large inventory and to be a resource for other collectors," said Macheel. In addition to seeking out pieces by those artists whose names have become household house-hold words, these two enthusiastic enthu-siastic art lovers have gone a step farther. Under Hall's direction they have chosen to invest in a less well-known artist who, they say, is destined to become as well known as Dali. His name is Soren Edsberg. Edsberg was bom in 1945, the son of a portrait painter in Copenhagen, Denmark. He studied with his father before setting out on study tours across Europe. His first exhibit was held in the Charlottenberg Palace in Copenhagen in 1966. Since then his paintings have been shown in Sweden, Holland, Spain, Utah, Colorado and California. According to Macheel, his compositions are based on religious themes and have evolved from a representational representa-tional to a clean abstract style. "To look at his work is to clean your mind. It is very pure, said Macheel. Thirty original oil paintings and several limited edition lithographs litho-graphs by Soren Edsberg will be included in the upcoming show. According to Mary Doughty, Dough-ty, the owner of the Family Jewels, Kranstovers' exhibit will help to upgrade the art in Park City. "I think people have been afraid to get away from rustic western art. I know I have. But now Park City should be able to offer internationally-known internationally-known artists," said Doughty |
