Modern + Contemporary
Thu, Nov 11, 2021 09:00AM EST
Lot 142
Pat Owens
Estimate: $4,000 - $6,000
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(Kansas, 20th/21st century)
Duets, installation of 30 plate glass panels featuring famous individuals, flame worked soda-lime glass, fired-on glass enamels, painted and patinated steel and copper hardware, each 7 x 7 x 5 in., overall 41 x 41 x 5 in.
Provenance: Morgan Contemporary Glass Gallery, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, purchased in 2007 for $27,000 (accompanied by the original receipt, a personal note from the artist and other documents); Jerry and Deena Kaplan Collection of Modern Art and Crafts
Note: Pat Owens studied at Penland School of Crafts, Penland, North Carolina. Her instruction there included hot glass art under instructors Curtiss Brock, Tom Farbanish, and Richard Ritter. She also studied flameworking under Fred Birkhill, Shane Fero, and Paul Stankard. She was a 1995 Fellow of the Creative Glass Center of America, and has been an instructor in glass flameworking at the Pilchuck Glass School in Washington.Each is and independent work with the titles: Mohammed Ali - Fred Astaire, The Strength and Beauty of Grace; Lucille Ball - Buddha, The balm of Laughter vs. Inner Peace; Charlie Chaplin and Cleopatra, Commonality vs. Exotica; Dali and Disney, Making surreal art vs. making the surreal "real; Ben Franklin and Henry Ford, The Expansive Mind vs. Insular Reaction; Gandhi and Geronimo, Forms of Resistance; Bob Hope and Alfred Hitchcock, Image and the Image Maker; Ignatius Loyola and Ivan the Great, Spiritual and Worldly warriors; Thomas Jefferson and Jessie James, The rustic ideal vs rustic reality; Helen Keller and M. L. King, Struggles against darkness; Lenin and Lincoln, Leadership from applied power vs. human understanding; Mother Teresa and Groucho Marx, Faith and Cynicism; Newton and Napoleon, Manifestations of Genius; Oedipus Rex and Oedipus Regina, Victims of Hubris and Fate; Pythagoras and Picasso, The rigors vs. fluidity of line and form; Don Quixote and Rosinante, Artist and Muse; Babe Ruth and Eleanor Roosevelt, Popular Idol vs. Public Ideal; William Shakespear and Homer Simpson, Cultural Languages; Unknown and Unheralded, Almost All of Us; Valentino and Queen Victoria, Passion vs. Propriety; John Wayne and Oscar Wilde, Views of Masculinity; Xanthippe and ?, The isolation of railing against reality; Yoritomo and Yeats-The Longevity of Kingdoms, real and imagined; Frank Zappa and Emile Zola -Sound and Posture vs. Reasoned Consideration; three untitled. See: Duets (patowensglass.com)
Condition
good condition
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