Rhomboid Head

Artist Stanislav Libenský (Czech, 1921-2002)

Artist Jaroslava Brychtová (Czech, 1924 - 2020)

Date1991

DimensionsH: 21 in. (53.3 cm); W: 19 3/4 in. (50.2 cm); D: 12 in. (30.5 cm)

MediumMold-cast transparent red glass; cut and polished.

ClassificationGlass

Credit LinePurchased with funds given by Margy and Scott Trumbull

Object number

2006.52

On View

Toledo Museum of Art Glass Pavilion (2444 Monroe Street), Glass Pavilion Gallery, 2

DescriptionTransparent red-orange glass; chunks of glass melted in a mold, ground, polished.

Label TextHusband-and-wife team Stanislav Libenský and Jaroslava Brychtová are renowned, both singly and together, for sculptural glass that has exerted a lasting international influence throughout their long careers. Their tabletop sculptures like Rhomboid Head are characterized by an innovative use of internal space. The couple’s devotion to glass goes beyond the realm of art and enters an almost spiritual dimension. In 1995 they wrote: “Glass allows us to build up a harmony between shapes and penetrating light, and to thus define the essence of light-space and to touch the secret of this space. Nevertheless, although glass is a prime medium for us, the character and the qualities of this material are something more than only a means of artistic expression. Therefore, we cannot do anything but be all the time nearby glass.”Published ReferencesPage, Jutta-Annette, Peter Morrin, and Robert Bell, Color Ignited: Glass 1962-2012, Toledo, OH, 2012, p. 135, repr. (col.) p. 136, pl. 77.Exhibition HistoryToledo Museum of Art, Inspired Giving: The Apollo Society 25th Anniversary Exhibition, October 15, 2010-February 13, 2011 (not in catalog).