Dale Chihuly Signed Original Chartreuse Persian Handblown Contemporary Glass Art

Artist: Dale Chihuly
Title: Chartreuse Persian
Medium: Handblown Glass
Size: 11” diameter
Inscription: Signed by artist
Year: 2013
Condition: Very good condition overall, please request condition report for full details
Documentation: Includes Gallery Certificate of Authenticity

Please note: Although Dale Chihuly's original Chartreuse Persian has been sold, Modern Artifact is always looking to buy and sell other Dale Chihuly art. We buy and sell Chihuly glass, paintings, drawings, and prints. Please contact us directly for more information.

The American glass sculptor Dale Chihuly is well-known for his innovative techniques for creating handblown glass sculptures. His glass practice is a departure from traditional symmetrical and perfectly formed vessels. Instead, his works embrace asymmetry and irregular shapes to create unique sculptural forms.

Chihuly’s Persian series explore form, shape, and color through poetic and experimental glasswork. Chartreuse Persian celebrates asymmetry through dramatic chartreuse and red-orange details. The swirling and translucent patterns allude to notions of Orientalism and offer an abstract interpretation of enchanted gardens and minarets. Furthermore, Chihuly’s Persians evoke the art of antiquity from Venice and the Near and Far East.

Chartreuse Persian comes with a gallery certificate of authenticity and is signed by the artist. It is in very good condition overall. Please request a condition report for full details.

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.