My Dog, Bufik

Object NameCylinder

Artist Jaromír Rybák (Czech, b. 1952)

Studio Crystalex

Made FromGlass

Date1988

Place MadeCzechoslovakia, Prague

TechniqueBlown, enameled

SizeOverall H: 40.4 cm, Diam: 29.8 cm

Accession Number89.3.4

Curatorial Area(s)

Postwar and Contemporary

Exhibitions

Czech Glass Now: Contemporary Sculpture, 1970-2004

The Studio at 20

Not On View

Interpretive Notes

Web Text

Rybák is well known for his cast glass sculptures as well as for his painted vessels and monumental windows. This depiction of the artist’s dog is meant to be humorous and cartoonlike, and it is inspired by children’s art. The choice of subject brings to mind typical canine attributes such as loyalty, devotion, and protectiveness.

Physical DescriptionColorless, blue, yellow, black glass; blown and enameled. Tall, straight-walled cylinder with ground lipless rim: walls decorated with overall "spattered" or brushed pale blue/aqua stained background; large, loosely brushed stylized black dog with yellow stripes, pointed ears, almond eyes, teeth, pointed snout, wraps 3/4 around vessel, facial features heavily outlined forming a relief surface; dog stands on a section of wide blue vertical stripes; flat base, no pontil; inscribed vertically in script near lower foot: "Jaromír Rybák 1988".
Provenance

Former Collection Art Centrum - 1989