Red Microworld

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Object Name: 
Sculpture
Title: 
Red Microworld
Maker(s): 
Place Made: 
Czech Republic, Prague
Accession Number: 
2002.3.41
Dimensions: 
Overall H: 74.8 cm, W: 13.5 cm, Diam: 13.5 cm
Location: 
Not on Display
Date: 
1998
Credit Line: 
Gift of Barry Friedman Ltd., New York
Primary Description: 
Almost colorless glass with a light green tint; cut, painted, laminated, assembled. Tall hexagonal shape tower assembled of many layers of glass.

More Info

Department: 
Postwar and Contemporary
Provenance: 
Barry Friedman Ltd., Source
2002
Category: 
Studio Glass
Color: 
Almost colorless, light green tint
Technique: 
Cut, laminated, painted, assembled
laminating
cut glass
painting
Inscription: 
Elias
Signature
: 
At bottom edge

Exhibitions (1)

Czech Glass Now: Contemporary Sculpture, 1970-2004
Venue(s)
Corning Museum of Glass
Sculpture Gallery

Publications (3)

Barry Friedman Gives 44 Works to The Corning Museum of Glass (2004) illustrated, pp. 80, 82; BIB# AI63127
The Corning Museum of Glass Annual Report 2002 (2003) illustrated, p. 17; BIB# AI93609
Recent Important Acquisitions, 45 (2003) illustrated, p. 226, fig. 51; BIB# AI59133