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Figure II

 
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Object Name: 
Sculpture
Title: 
Figure II
Department
Modern
Category
Contemporary
Place Made: 
Czechoslovakia, Novy Bor
Date: 
1980
Color
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white
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colorless
Technique
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mold-blown glass
Material
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glass
Dimensions: 
Overall H: 95 cm, Diam (max): 24.6 cm
Accession Number: 
81.3.26
Location: 
On Display
Description
Translucent milky white overlaid with colorless non-lead glass; blown into a mold, elongated and tooled while hot. Tall, uneven, hollow half-figure of colorless overlaid with white blown into a mold leaving a rib around perimeter; figure has suggestion of facial features (face is colorless), twisted at the neck, body has been shaped with tools; white ends near base leaving colorless edge; thick base rim ground and polished flat, scattered seed bubbles and tool marks; inscribed in script near base: "Roubicek 1980".
Label Text
Roubíček is well known for his virtuoso large-scale blown and hot-worked sculptures that are based on the human body. In terms of mass, volume, and control of form, cast glass lends itself to sculpture more than blown glass. Yet Roubíček has spent his career exploring the potential of blown glass for sculpture, and he has developed his sculpting technique in glass in a unique way. These ghostly figures were inspired by the rounded, abstract forms of the Romanian sculptor Constantin Brancusi (1876–1957).
Provenance
Art Centrum, Source to 1981-01-09
Venue(s)
Corning Museum of Glass
Sculpture Gallery
Czechoslovakian Glass 1350-1980
Venue(s)
Corning Museum of Glass 1981-05-02 through 1981-11-01
 

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