Self Portrait

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Object Name: 
2-part Sculpture
Title: 
Self Portrait
Maker(s): 
Place Made: 
Australia, New South Wales, Paddington
Accession Number: 
79.6.4
Dimensions: 
Overall H: 17.9 cm, W: 15.8 cm, D: 26.2 cm
Location: 
Not on Display
Date: 
1977
Primary Description: 
Sculpture, "Self Portrait". Solid colorless optical glass, skull form, carved, cast and cut mask form with eye applied to left side of skull.

More Info

Department: 
Postwar and Contemporary
Provenance: 
Esson, Michael (Australian, b. Scotland, 1950), Source
1977-06
to
1979-02-20
Color: 
colorless
Technique: 
casting
carving
cutting
lampworking
Material: 
glass

Exhibitions (1)

New Glass: A Worldwide Survey
Venue(s)
Corning Museum of Glass 1979 through 1979
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
The Renwick Gallery
Toledo Museum of Art

Publications (5)

Contemporary Glass: A World Survey from The Corning Museum of Glass (1989) illustrated, p. 164; BIB# 32803
From Ordinary Sand and Damp Mud (1980-01) illustrated, pp. 52-57;
Recent Important Acquisitions, 22 (1980) illustrated, p. 101, #53; BIB# AI98082
The Corning Museum of Glass Annual Report 1979 (1980) illustrated, pp. 4, 7; BIB# AI97143
New Glass: A Worldwide Survey (1979) illustrated, p. 80, #58; BIB# 20603