Little Edie The Marble Faun

Jerry the marble faun pairs big edie and little edie 2009 13 x 19 x 6.

Little edie the marble faun.

Jerry torre who little edie dubbed the marble faun has been immortalized through the maysles movie. In addition to sculpting stone jerry worked as a gardener for the royal family of saudi arabia with wayland flowers and his puppet madame during their cabaret acts in the. Merrymount little edie and the marble faun souvenir program trav s. No one had heard from him since 1979.

David lally new york. While living at grey gardens edith little edie bouvier beale gave jerry the nickname the marble faun which jerry accepted as a fated path to art making. 1955 is an american sculptor he is best known for his appearance in the 1975 independent documentary films grey gardens and the beales of grey gardens by albert and david maysles as a sculptor his work has been shown in several galleries in new york city and written about in the new york times the wall street journal vogue architectural digest. Jerry torre the teenage handyman shown in the documentary nicknamed the marble faun by little edie was sought by the filmmakers for years afterward and was found by chance in 2005 driving a new york city taxicab.

Little edie died in florida in 2002 at the age of 84. Little edie the marble faun a play by david lally played the metropolitan playhouse s annual author fest from january 14 27 2008. The marble faun is a character from a nathaniel hawthorne novel and torre said that became his nickname from little edie from that day forward. Albert maysles said that when little edie asked her mother laying on her deathbed if she had any last words she replied why just watch the film now torre s got his own film.