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October 13, 2000

"It is weight that gives meaning to weightlessness... I realized that lightness added to lightness does not add tension but diminishes it."
-Isamu Noguchi (born 1904), Sculptor's World

"One must not imitate the sun, one must make oneself into a sun."
-Raoul Dufy (1887-1953)

Click on the image to enlarge	Lot 180 Andrew Fote magnum sculpture paperweight. In relief, a painted cherub, her arms crossed in front, with a gentle, almost bemused, expression on her golden face. Copper-encased sides with block-shaped windows. Diameter 4 1/2". Estimate: $500 - 700
Click on the image to enlarge	Lot 181 Andrew Fote "Strawberry Heart" paperweight. A fresh perspective on a traditional Valentine image. A clear-encased heart of mottled red and white. Signed. Width 2 3/8". Estimate: $70 - 90
Click on the image to enlarge	Lot 182 Andrew Fote magnum sculpture paperweight with an antique-style sulphide of a cherub playing a guitar, lost in a musical reverie. On white ground; copper-encased sides with three windows. Diameter 4 1/2". Estimate: $500 - 700
Click on the image to enlarge	Lot 183 Andrew Fote round, gold-encased paperweight with several raised circular windows of various sizes, revealing the white frosted interior. Also, the silhouette of a man, in Fote's inimitable Fauvist style. Signed. Diameter 3 1/4". Estimate: $250 - 350
Click on the image to enlarge	Lot 184 Andrew Fote "The Seeker," clear-encased heart-shaped paperweight with mottled purple and white on the interior, and a copper human figure engraved on the surface. Width 2 1/4". Estimate: $70 - 90
Click on the image to enlarge	Lot 185 Andrew Fote clear, round paperweight which is silver encased, electroformed to the crystal-with three lively human figures. They dance and move, playing with negative and positive shapes, at the surface of their interior blue wave swirl. Signed. Diameter 3". Estimate: $250 - 350