Vase with Centaur and Unicorn

Object Name: 
Vase with Centaur and Unicorn

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Object Name: 
Vase with Centaur and Unicorn
Maker(s): 
Place Made: 
United States, NY, Corning
Accession Number: 
2003.4.56
Dimensions: 
Overall H: 23.7 cm, Diam (max): 29.5 cm
Location: 
On Display
Date: 
1939
Web Description: 
The painter Jean Hugo was the great-grandson of the famous French poet and novelist Victor Hugo. He was one of a circle of avant-garde artists and writers in Paris in the 1920s and 1930s. It included the Surrealists Jean Cocteau, René Char, and Paul Eluard, and Hugo’s good friend Henri Matisse.

More Info

Department: 
Modern
Series: 
Twenty-seven Contemporary Artists
Provenance: 
Charles, Joan C., Former Collection
2003-06-12
Category: 
Modern
Color: 
colorless
Technique: 
blown and engraved
Inscription: 
Jean Hugo
Signature
: 
Engraved Below left of image in script

Description

Primary Description: 
Vase with Centaur and Unicorn. From the Steuben series "Twenty-Seven Contemporary Artists."Colorless glass; blown, applied, engraved. Large footed vase has wide rounded body, opens to flared rim, with opposing applied handles on lower body. Body is decorated with engraved figures of a centaur holding a spear and unicorn beside a tree.

Exhibitions (1)

Glass and Glamour: Steuben's Modern Moment, 1930-1960
Venue(s)
Museum of the City of New York 2003-10-14 through 2004-04-11

Publications (13)

What was contemporary art? (2013) illustrated, p. 236 (fig. 4.19); BIB# 128783
Le verre du XXe siècle (2006) illustrated, p. 185 (lower right); BIB# 103157
Sklo 20. Stoleti (2005) illustrated, p. 185, left; BIB# 100097
Glas des 20 Jahrhunderts (2005) illustrated, p. 185 (lower right); BIB# 95989
DK Collector's Guides: 20th Century Glass (2004) illustrated, p. 185; BIB# 79746
Recent Important Acquisitions Made by Public and Private Collections in the United States and Abroad (2004) illustrated, pp. 226-227, #35; BIB# AI69240
20th-century Glass (2004) illustrated, p. 185; BIB# 100097
20th-century Glass (2004) illustrated, p. 185; BIB# 79746
The Corning Museum of Glass Annual Report 2003 (2004) illustrated, p. 14; BIB# AI93746
Recent Acquisitions (2004) illustrated, p. 5; BIB# AI62237
The Collection of Designs in Glass by Twenty-seven Contemporary Artists (second edition) (1940-01-15) illustrated, #13; BIB# 61165
The Collection of Designs in Glass by Twenty-seven Contemporary Artists (first edition) (1940-01-01) illustrated, #13; BIB# 65354
Collection of Steuben 27 artists blueprints illustrated BIB# 149444