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Part II: Modern Paperweights &
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Lot 121
Paul Stankard environmental botanical
block sculpture, with
blue pine barren gentians, yellow loose strife, red raspberries,
leaves, and curly stems, growing from light green moss-covered
ground. White and tan roots with one "spirit" below
ground. Two textured sides. With botanical blocks like this one,
Stankard, "broke the mold of the traditional paperweight
and asked it to extend its definition. His botanicals also required
him to expand his repertoire of effects; no longer could his
wondrous plants be manifested solely through their flowers. The
vertical format now required Stankard to consider more fully
their stems and root systems, to see the flower as only the crowning
glory of a complex interweaving of elements." -Annual
Bulletin of the PCA (1997). Signed/dated 1990.
Height 4 7/8". $10,000-12,000
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Lot 122
Paul Stankard "Lilac Environmental"
botanical block sculpture, with
several stalks of light purple lilac blossoms, brown branches,
and green leaves, growing from a slice of sandy ground. Root
system includes a "spirit" and tendrils with split
pods exposing a red "earth flower." A fine example
of the "organic credibility" that Stankard strives
for in his work, as the wildflowers above blend seamlessly with
the root system below. "The roots, often realized in
a range of monochromatic pale browns, served as a foil for the
explosion of color atop them, and to Stankard these gangly roots
became every bit as much of the plant as is its flower, in many
ways bound to it as cause and effect." -Annual Bulletin
of the PCA (1997). Signed/dated 1991.
Height 5 1/4". $10,000-12,000 |
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Lot 123
Paul Stankard floral rose paperweight,
with a centrally placed
single pink wild rose, having upright yellow stamens, green leaves,
and thorny stems, on clear ground. Signed.
Diameter 2 11/16". $1500-2000 |
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Lot 124
Paul Stankard 1974 floral paperweight,
with three stalks of
wild orange plantain, yellow-green leaves, and dark brown roots,
over white ground. "PS" signature cane on base. LE
of 50.
Diameter 2 3/8". $1600-2000 |
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