5 Miniature Skulls

5 Miniature Skulls

 
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Object Name: 
5 Miniature Skulls
Department
Modern
Place Made: 
United States
Date: 
1987
Color
AAT
colorless
Dimensions: 
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Accession Number: 
87.4.65
Credit Line: 
Gift of Paul Marioni and Ann Troutner
Location: 
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Description
Colorless soda-lime glass; cast in a bronze mold, removed while still molten, manipulated. Five small solid skulls cast from the same mold, then altered into varying degrees of distortion; example closest to unaltered casting is (c) depicts front of skull with eye and nose sockets, teeth and jaw, back of head is flat; (a) side of head flattened; (b) head turned on side, back extended and flattened; (d) both sides of head extended; (e) right side of head pulled up, then extended; overall mold marks; unsigned.
Provenance
Troutner, Ann, Source
Marioni, Paul ((American, b. 1941)), Source
Title Unknown (Rourke Gallery)
Venue(s)
Rourke Gallery 1987 through 1987
 
 

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