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Cherry
Kathy Butterly (American, born in 1963)
American
2000
Object Place: New York, New York
Medium/Technique
Glazed porcelain
Dimensions
Overall: 21.3 x 6.4 x 7 cm (8 3/8 x 2 1/2 x 2 3/4 in.)
Credit Line
The Daphne Farago Collection
Accession Number2017.4836
CollectionsContemporary Art, Americas
ClassificationsCeramics
Kathy Butterly’s curvaceous vessels are lifelike and luscious to the eye, a quality enhanced here by this work’s evocative title, Cherry. Its matte, butter-yellow body is crowned with highly-textural pom-pom-esque pink and blue spheres. Atop one of these pink orbs sits a glistening, lacquered, bright-red ball, reminiscent of a juicy, sweet maraschino cherry.
DescriptionPale yellow form with pink and blue spheres at top. Resting on form with orange drips, textured feet ending in blue and pink coils, on textured green and solid gray architectural base.
Provenance2000, sold by the artist to Franklin Parrasch Gallery, New York; January 17, 2001, sold by Franklin Parrasch Gallery to Daphne Farago (b. 1924 - d. 2017), Little Compton, RI; 2017, bequest of Daphne Farago to the MFA. (Accession Date: December 14, 2017)
Copyright© Kathy Butterly