The Countryside in Clouds

Object NameSculpture

Artist Jaromír Rybák (Czech, b. 1952)

Made FromLead Glass

Date1991

Place MadeCzechoslovakia, Prague

TechniqueMold-melted, cut

SizeOverall H: 56.5 cm, W: 38.2 cm, D: 12.0 cm

Accession Number96.3.9

Credit LineGift of Jaromir Rybak

Curatorial Area(s)

Postwar and Contemporary

Exhibitions

Title Unknown (Carpe Diem)

Czech Glass Now: Contemporary Sculpture, 1970-2004

Not On View

Physical DescriptionShades of transparent yellowish and brownish orange lead glasses; glass frit and bars melted in a mold, colored with gold, cut, acid-polished. Vertical, solid, rectangular sculpture, shallow in depth depicting a stylized cloudy sky and landscape; sky/background is formed of five joined vertical bars that are unevenly stepped and rise to one high point at right of front center, approximately 1/3 and 2/3 distance from top of background two uneven, but parallel, almond-shaped clouds emerge horizontally from the background (left end of upper cloud extends past left edge of background, lower cloud is positioned more towards right and is completely contained by background); background meets low rectangular base with irregular surface that slopes in an uneven line from fromt right down to lower left, base extends past solid background at front left, a short vertical bar (the sixth) is separated from rest of background and extends up from far left of base; solid polished back side and base; scratched in script on back lower right corner: "Jaromír Rybák 1991".
Provenance

Source Jaromír Rybák (Czech, b. 1952) - 1996-03-20