LIMITED, SIGNED AND NUMBERED BY RON CARTER AND MICHAEL EVERT
Only 20 exist.
$2,500 for numbers 15-20
Price increases every 5 pieces as fewer are available.
Sculptor Michael Evert usually makes busts of his subjects as they sit for him over time. They talk, there is a “vibe” and their interaction finds its way into the finished piece. For this project, Evert chose the life cast method to recreate the Maestro’s left hand to create an actual, historical record of the hand that created all that music that was so integral to our lives, rather than his artistic interpretation of it.
Plus, says Evert, “I’ve always been old school. You can’t get older school than life casting, plus, the double bass is an old-school instrument, it plays all genres in the old-school tradition (as opposed to electric bass), it was the obvious choice.
It is his actual hand. There are no degrees of separation.”
Evert chose the left hand because while the right hand is always busy and important, of course, it’s the left hand that moves up and down the neck and reaches across and creates so many different sounds and effects.