Palm Beach Modern Auctions
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Modern + Contemporary Art & Design

Sat, May 20, 2023 12:00PM EDT
Lot 530

Ross Richmond Glass SPIRIT GUIDE Bust / Sculpture

Estimate: $800 - $1,200

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Artist/Designer; Manufacturer: Ross Richmond (b. 1971)
Marking(s); notes: signed; 2004
Country of origin; materials: American; blown and hot-sculpted glass
Dimensions (H, W, D): 6.25"h, 8.25"w, 6"d
Additional Information: Provenance: Mroczek Brothers, 10.13.2016, lot 93 | Private Collection, Palm Beach, Florida. Ross started working with glass at the Cleveland Institute of Art in 1991. He graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts with a major in Glass and a minor in Small Metals (jewelry). He has studied and taught at many prestigious glass schools across the country including the Penland School of Craft and the Pilchuck Glass School. In 1997 Ross began working as an apprentice to William Morris becoming a member of his team in 1999, working alongside Bill until his retirement in 2007. Ross has had residencies at the Tacoma Museum of Glass, Toledo Glass Museum and Corning Glass Museum in the last few years, and is in the slow process of building his own hot glass studio. Ross' pieces are typically narrative, working mainly with figurative elements and symbolic objects. His work currently shows at a number of galleries across the country and he has taught in the US and Canada. - rossrichmond.com.

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Condition

very good, light scratches and scuffs to interior and bottom edge, no chips or cracks