Head
ca. 1930 (made)
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Colotte used "cullet"(waste glass) but also worked in specially-ordered blocks of up to 500lbs. He wheel-cut, ground, acid-etched and even chiselled the cold glass and took the sculptural possibilities of glass more literally than many as in this monumental work. Inscription: "A Colotte"cut.
Object details
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| Materials and techniques | cut, ground and etched glass |
| Brief description | Head of a woman, glass, French, Aristide Colotte, c.1930 |
| Physical description | Colotte used "cullet"(waste glass) but also worked in specially-ordered blocks of up to 500lbs. He wheel-cut, ground, acid-etched and even chiselled the cold glass and took the sculptural possibilities of glass more literally than many as in this monumental work. Inscription: "A Colotte"cut. |
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| Object history | Purchased from Lewis M. Kaplan Associates Ltd. who had bought it at Christie's, Geneva, 8 May 1983, lot 90. Colotte (b. Baccarat, 1885; died Paris, 1959) worked as a glass engraver and jeweller in Nancy. In 1920s, he developed an individual style, using large pieces of glass cullet to carve sculptural forms which he would also grind and acid-etch. He exhibited at the Salon des Artistes Décorateurs and the Salon d'Automne, Paris, from 1927. |
| Associated object | C.218A-1983 (Part) |
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| Accession number | C.218-1983 |
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| Record created | December 15, 1999 |
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