Blackcoater

Blackcoater

 
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Object Name: 
Sculpture
Title: 
Blackcoater
Department
Modern
Category
Contemporary
Place Made: 
Czech Republic, severocesky Kraj, Zelezny Brod
Date: 
1989
Technique
AAT
ground glass
Dimensions: 
Overall H: 57.2 cm, W: 102.8 cm, D: 24.5 cm
Accession Number: 
92.3.12
Location: 
On Display
Description
Deep amethyst lead glass; fused in a mold (mold-melted), cut, ground, polished. Large symmetrical horizontal sculpture cast in "double-diamond" wings shape with central crossed legs; each "diamond" wing front in slight relief and comprised of three planes (one large polished diamond and two unpolished narrow triangles with overall mold marks, large diamonds taper at outside edge); at narrow juncture of "wings" small triangles linked by thin horizontal undulating "skirt" extrusion of glass; back side juncture also has skirt with broken edges, back of each wing left unpolished and sculptured in radiating pattern of shallow, gradually widening, stepped planes; wings rest on the squared points of large diamonds and central pair of narrow crossed solid tubular legs in form of "x" extending from center juncture and angled slightly outward for support.
Label Text
Looking out the window of his studio one day, Mareš was struck by a swarm of black butterflies that looked, he said, as if they were “wearing black evening coats.” The form of the butterflies was the basis for this abstract sculpture.
Provenance
Judy Youens Gallery, Source
1992-02-07
Title Unknown (Maurine Littleton Gallery)
Venue(s)
Maurine Littleton Gallery 1990-10-21 through 1990-11-14
Venue(s)
Corning Museum of Glass
Sculpture Gallery
 
Kunst mit Glas: Vladimir Kopecky & Ivan Mare
Venue(s)
Essener Glasgalerie 1989-11-12 through 1989-12-22
Title Unknown (Judy Youens Gallery)
Venue(s)
Judy Youens Gallery 1991 through 1991
 
Recent Important Acquisitions, 35 (1993) illustrated, p. 134, #35;
The Corning Museum of Glass Annual Report 1992 (1993) illustrated, pp. 9, 11;

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