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Lamp: "Nude Walking in Tall Grass"
Dan Dailey (born in 1947)
1993
Object Place: Kensington, New Hampshire, United States
Medium/Technique
Steel fabricated; patinated bronze and gold plated bronze; cut and polished white Vitrolite base, blown glass conical shade
Dimensions
77.47 x 55.88 x 15.24 cm (30 1/2 x 22 x 6 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Andrea and Charles R. Bronfman
Accession Number1999.533
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsContemporary Art, Americas
ClassificationsGlass
DescriptionFigure of stylized, geometric female nude in patenated brown bronze, with conical headdress of white glass with a green lip and brown decoration. Three tall blades of grass in green bronze with a brushed surface surround the figure. Figure and grasses stand on a white Vitrolite base supported by four brass feet with decorative finials.
InscriptionsIllegible signature on back of right ankle.
Provenance1994, purchased from Leo Kaplan Modern, New York, NY by Andrea and Charles Bronfman, Montreal, Quebec; 1999, given to MFA by Andrea and Charles Bronfman (Accession date: December 15, 1999).