Kurt Vonnegut, Sculptor

Best known for his novels like Slaughterhouse-Five and Cat's Cradle, Kurt Vonnegut also created visual art, mainly in the form of drawings and prints, as early as 1969. He made sculptures too, though they are "rare" on the market, according to Case Antiques, who sold this c. 1980 aluminum piece, titled "Wasp Waist," at auction in Tennessee last month for $5,040. Signed and numbered 6/9, the aluminum silhouette is clearly reminiscent of his famous felt-tipped drawings. 

As Peter Reed wrote of 'Vonnegut as artist' in 1999: "His fiction struggles to cope with a world of tragi-comic disparities, a universe that defies causality, whose absurdity lends the fantastic equal plausibility with the mundane. Much the same outlook pervades the graphic artworks that have increasingly occupied Vonnegut in recent years."