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Lot Essay
Dr. Juergen Pech has confirmed the authenticity of this work.
In 1965, Peggy Guggenheim organized an international exhibition of glass designs by the leading contemporary artists of the day including Jean (Hans) Arp, Georges Braque, Jean Cocteau, Fernand Léger, Le Corbusier, Pablo Picasso and Max Ernst, to be realized at Egidio Costantini's foundry Fucina degli Angeli in the tradition of Venetian glass making. Guggenheim spoke of this daring attempt to encourage leading contemporary artists to work in a medium that was considered staid and overtly commerical stating, "...it was possible to create a middle-ground, half-way between sculpture and stained glass, and that that middle ground would tempt the great painters of the day to try the new medium" (quoted in Sculpture in Vetro, exh. cat., op. cit., n.p.).
In 1965, Peggy Guggenheim organized an international exhibition of glass designs by the leading contemporary artists of the day including Jean (Hans) Arp, Georges Braque, Jean Cocteau, Fernand Léger, Le Corbusier, Pablo Picasso and Max Ernst, to be realized at Egidio Costantini's foundry Fucina degli Angeli in the tradition of Venetian glass making. Guggenheim spoke of this daring attempt to encourage leading contemporary artists to work in a medium that was considered staid and overtly commerical stating, "...it was possible to create a middle-ground, half-way between sculpture and stained glass, and that that middle ground would tempt the great painters of the day to try the new medium" (quoted in Sculpture in Vetro, exh. cat., op. cit., n.p.).