Dale Chihuly Large 25” Signed Orange Raw Sienna Persian Glass Sculpture with Yellow Lip Wrap $30k Appraisal

Artist: Dale Chihuly
Title: Raw Sienna Persian with Yellow Lip Wrap
Medium: Hand-Blown Glass
Dimensions: 17" x 25" x 11"
Year: 1992
Inscription: Signed on underside
Documentation: Includes gallery certificate of authenticity

Dale Chihuly's 1992 Dale Chihuly Large 25" Signed Orange Raw Sienna Persian is a magnificent marriage of form and color. Measuring over 2 feet wide, this large-scale work showcases Chihuly's ability to push the boundaries of size and composition.

Chihuly's acclaimed Persian series, initially unveiled at the esteemed Louvre in Paris back in 1986, garnered admiration for its groundbreaking shapes. Within this work, one encounters the intricate embellishments and sinuous body wraps that characterize his Persian series, marking yet another milestone in his progressive exploration of handblown glass as a medium for artistic expression. The body wrap in this context serves to accentuate Chihuly's investigation of the interplay between opacity and transparency, while the yellow lip wrap introduces a tone-on-tone ombre effect, evoking the aesthetic resonance of a twilight sunset.

Dale Chihuly's handblown glass 1992 Raw Sienna Persian with Yellow Lip Wrap is signed on the underside. With purchase you will receive a gallery certificate of authenticity from Modern Artifact as well as a third party appraisal from Foss Appraisal Services.

About Dale Chihuly

One of the most famous contemporary glass artists in the world, Dale Chihuly is best known for his monumental sculptures and installations. He is the name behind the spectacular ceiling at the Bellagio's flower garden in Las Vegas and the creator of the Rotunda Chandelier at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London. Glass works of Dale Chihuly are considered some of the most desired collectibles between the decorative arts devotees today.

Despite his initial indifference towards education, Chihuly has spent a lot of time in school, obtaining both scientific and artistic degree in sculpture from prestigious graduate schools. He displayed a proclivity for interior design and craft early on, but his true passion was always in the glass. He was a Fulbright Fellow in the late 1960s and an apprentice at the Venini Glass Factory in Venice. Mastering the art of Murano glasswork, he continued the experiments with glassblowing and thus became one of the people who brought the ancient art of glassblowing back into the spotlight on an international scale.

Monumental and small-scale artwork of Dale Chihuly is present in over 200 most renowned decorative art collections today, while the artist holds twelve honorary doctorates!

The most illustrious series in his work are Cylinders and Baskets he created in the 1970s; Macchia, Venetians, and Persians from the 1980s, Niijima Floats and Chandeliers created in the 1990s; and a more recent one, Fiori from the 2000s.

For over 30 years, Dale Chihuly has been acting as an artistic director of his team of craftsmen, since he was incapacitated in two accidents, which left him blind in one eye and incapable of holding the blowing tube. This change allowed him to see the possibilities of glass work on a broader scale, while still maintaining his recognizable style.