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PROPERTY FROM THE COLLECTION OF JUDY FREEMAN, NEW YORK Dale Chihuly Early neon sculpture ca. 1969 Hand-blown colored glass, neon, electrical components. 13 x 36 x 21 in (33 x 91.4 x 53.3 cm)
Provenance Acquired directly from the artist Judy Freeman Gallery, New York, 1971 Exhibited ‘Chihuly & Herman, GLASS: HANDLE WITH CARE’, Judy Freeman Gallery, New York, June 4-July 1, 1971 Literature Dido Smith, Craft Horizons, October 1971, p. 52 for a review of the exhibition Dale Chihuly and Linda Norden, Chihuly: Glass, Seattle, 1982, p. 70 for an early neon installation Catalogue Essay The present lot is one of nine early neon sculptures hand blown by Dale Chihuly and exhibited during the summer of 1971 at Judy Freeman Gallery, New York. Reviewing the exhibition in Craft Horizons, Dido Smith wrote: “Dale Chihuly’s glass is all fluent form and pulsing lines of light—bulbous monochrome transparencies searching space with tenuous antennae that twist and coil in neon ecstasy,” a review as purple and exuberant as the works on view. In 1967, while both were students at the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD), Ms. Freeman enlisted Chihuly’s help producing glass architectural models. After moving to New York to practice architecture, Ms. Freeman opened a gallery, where she exhibited works “created in craft modalities”. "Dripping molten glass out of the furnace and blowing organic forms and putting them in environments, lighting them in special ways. It was one of the most creative times of my life." (Dale Chihuly on his neon installations) Read More