£6,250
MODERN MADE | Modern Art & Post-War Design | 636
Auction: 30 April 2021 at 11:00 BST
signed and dated, blown and hot formed glass, consisting of five male faces in dark blue and matt glass
Provenance: A Private European Collection of Studio & Contemporary Glass
The works of internationally acclaimed glass artist Richard Jolley are instantly recognisable for their expressive and eye-catching, almost dreamlike, forms. Born in Kansas in 1952, Jolley moved to Tennessee in his youth where he began his formal education at Tusculum College under Michael Taylor. Today, Jolley continues to live and work in Tennessee, where he built a glass studio in 1975. His interest in the human condition is evident in his work, with natural forms and figurative works with an almost caricatural abstraction being a key identifier of Jolley’s pieces. He has received several awards including the Tennessee “Governor’s Distinguished Artist Award” in 2007, becoming the youngest ever visual artist to receive this accolade. Jolley has also received numerous important commissions including his monumental sculpture in the Great Hall of the Knoxville Museum of Art, which is one of the largest glass-and-steel assemblages in the world.
We would like to thank the artist for his assistance in cataloguing the current work.