Today on substack🌹3 modern artists’ jewelry you probs didn’t know about. Alexander Calder, Salvador Dalí and Pablo Picasso. I started a substack for unusual special & cool art stories - The Rose Period - and my first sub is live<3 Check it out at the link in my bio and feel free to leave me NOTES 1. Alexander Calder sketches for earrings / sales log via @by__sp 2. Calder in his workshop c. 1930 @calderfoundation 3. A page from Calder Jewelry by Holton Rower, 2007 4. Georgia O’Keeffe with her OK Brooch by Alexander Calder. Photographed by Carl van Vechten, 1950 5. Clipping from the Sunday Mirror Magazine, c. 1949– announcing Dalí’s first collection of jewels 6. Salvador Dalí and his wife / “Queen” Gala who inspired all his jewelry (pic from surrealist dinner party where she dressed up as a unicorn reclined in bed - stayed like that the whole time!) 6. The Royal Heart by Salvador Dalí c. 1953 - designed to beat like a real heart - and still beating at Dalí Theatre Museum in Spain 7. Madelle Hegeler dripping in Dalí, by Getty/Sotheby’s (1957) 8. Picasso and Françoise Gilot, his wife / mother to his children - he made some of his most personal pieces for her 9. Silver handcrafted medallion Picasso made in collaboration with his dentist(!) 10. Picasso at @ateliershugo - the only collection mass produced in small batches 11. Throughout his life, Picasso made jewelry for the women he loved. Here he is c. 1957 with one of his last muses Jacqueline Roque, adjusting the necklace he gifted her