An Extraordinary 'Filet de Verre' Bowl Object
Mary Ann Toots Zynski (Massachusetts 1951)
Lot-No. 660
Starting Bid: 8.000 €
USA. 1990s. Filet-de-Verre: Fused and thermo formed colored glass threads. H. 19 x 34,5 x 21,5 cm. At the bottom monogr. Z (black glass thread). Exquisitely colorful vessel in an undulating form that appears to have grown organically. In the 'Filet de verre' technique developed by the artist, a network of melted and thermally formed glass threads is combined with the free-blown form in a unique way, blurring the boundary between glass and fibers - American glass artist, studied at the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) in Providence, where she was one of a group of pioneering artists who turned studio glass into a worldwide phenomenon. In 1980 she became deputy director and head of the hot workshop at the New York Experimental Glass Workshop in New York City and developed her famous 'spun' glass vessels; after extended stays in Amsterdam and Paris with her own glass studios, she has been back in Providence, Rhode Island since 1999. Mus.: Works in over 70 international museum collections such as Boymans van Beuningen, Rotterdam, Carnegie Museum, Pittsburgh, Cleveland Museum, Ohio, Detroit Institute of Arts, Musée des Arts Décoratifs du Louvre, Paris, Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, Hamburg, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Victoria and Albert Museum, London and many more
Mary Ann Toots Zynski: An Extraordinary 'Filet de Verre' Bowl Object
Mary Ann Toots Zynski (Massachusetts 1951)
An Extraordinary 'Filet de Verre' Bowl Object
Lot-No. 660
Starting Bid: 8.000 €
USA. 1990s. Filet-de-Verre: Fused and thermo formed colored glass threads. H. 19 x 34,5 x 21,5 cm. At the bottom monogr. Z (black glass thread). Exquisitely colorful vessel in an undulating form that appears to have grown organically. In the 'Filet de verre' technique developed by the artist, a network of melted and thermally formed glass threads is combined with the free-blown form in a unique way, blurring the boundary between glass and fibers - American glass artist, studied at the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) in Providence, where she was one of a group of pioneering artists who turned studio glass into a worldwide phenomenon. In 1980 she became deputy director and head of the hot workshop at the New York Experimental Glass Workshop in New York City and developed her famous 'spun' glass vessels; after extended stays in Amsterdam and Paris with her own glass studios, she has been back in Providence, Rhode Island since 1999. Mus.: Works in over 70 international museum collections such as Boymans van Beuningen, Rotterdam, Carnegie Museum, Pittsburgh, Cleveland Museum, Ohio, Detroit Institute of Arts, Musée des Arts Décoratifs du Louvre, Paris, Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, Hamburg, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Victoria and Albert Museum, London and many more
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