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Auction archive: Lot number 47

Yoichi Ohira

Design
26 Sep 2013
Estimate
£9,000 - £12,000
ca. US$14,272 - US$19,030
Price realised:
£27,500
ca. US$43,610
Auction archive: Lot number 47

Yoichi Ohira

Design
26 Sep 2013
Estimate
£9,000 - £12,000
ca. US$14,272 - US$19,030
Price realised:
£27,500
ca. US$43,610
Beschreibung:

Yoichi Ohira Unique vase, N. 5 from the ‘Mosaico Sommerso’ series 2004 Hand-blown glass canes with murrine and powder inserts, partially incised, battuto and faceted surface. 22 cm (8 5/8 in.) high Executed by Andrea Zilio, master blower and Giacomo Barbini, master cutter and grinder, Anfora, Murano, Italy. Underside incised with "mosaico sommerso"/Yoichi Ohira/m° a. zilio/m° g. Barbini/1 / 1 Unico/Friday 05-11-2004/murano.
Exhibited Venice. 3 Visions in Glass, Cristiano Bianchin, Yoichi Ohira, Laura de Santillana, Barry Friedman Ltd., New York, 29 October 2009-13 February 2010 then travelled to Naples Museum of Art, Naples, FL (1 October 2010 – 15 January 2011), Musée des Arts décoratifs, Paris, (24 March-4 September 2011), Glasmuseet Ebeltoft (12 October 2011-7 March 2012) Literature Barry Friedman, Janet Koplos and Olivié, et al., Venice. 3 Visions in Glass, Cristiano Bianchin, Yoichi Ohira, Laura de Santillana, exh. cat., Barry Friedman Ltd., New York, 2009, illustrated pp. 280, 438 Artist Bio Yoichi Ohira Japanese • 1946 Glass art – hard, fragile, cold and often heavy – is not typically designed to be handled. Yoichi Ohira's luminous blown glass vessels, however, offer an exception to this trend. They are small and light enough to be turned in one's hands like a Wunderkammer specimen, inviting the viewer to admire his abstracted design vocabulary of gemstones, polished ivory, veined rocks, shimmering water, agate, moss and lichens. Ohira has been compared to Emile Gallé for his ability to emulate the natural world in glass. Comparisons may also be drawn to Jean Dunand's bronze vessels, Japanese rokusho patina and Otto Natzler's volcanic glazes – an impressive range of media to be translated into glass. Yoichi Ohira graduated from the Kuwasawa Design School, Tokyo in 1969. Shortly thereafter he took up a glassblowing apprenticeship at the Kagami Crystal Company, Ltd. In 1973 Ohira moved to Venice to study at the Accademia di Belle Arti; he graduated in 1978 earning the highest possible grade for his thesis, "The Aesthetics of Glass." In the late 1980s Ohira began collaborating with Murano glassmakers, earning the "Premio Selezione" of the Premio Murano in 1987. View More Works

Auction archive: Lot number 47
Auction:
Datum:
26 Sep 2013
Auction house:
Phillips
London
Beschreibung:

Yoichi Ohira Unique vase, N. 5 from the ‘Mosaico Sommerso’ series 2004 Hand-blown glass canes with murrine and powder inserts, partially incised, battuto and faceted surface. 22 cm (8 5/8 in.) high Executed by Andrea Zilio, master blower and Giacomo Barbini, master cutter and grinder, Anfora, Murano, Italy. Underside incised with "mosaico sommerso"/Yoichi Ohira/m° a. zilio/m° g. Barbini/1 / 1 Unico/Friday 05-11-2004/murano.
Exhibited Venice. 3 Visions in Glass, Cristiano Bianchin, Yoichi Ohira, Laura de Santillana, Barry Friedman Ltd., New York, 29 October 2009-13 February 2010 then travelled to Naples Museum of Art, Naples, FL (1 October 2010 – 15 January 2011), Musée des Arts décoratifs, Paris, (24 March-4 September 2011), Glasmuseet Ebeltoft (12 October 2011-7 March 2012) Literature Barry Friedman, Janet Koplos and Olivié, et al., Venice. 3 Visions in Glass, Cristiano Bianchin, Yoichi Ohira, Laura de Santillana, exh. cat., Barry Friedman Ltd., New York, 2009, illustrated pp. 280, 438 Artist Bio Yoichi Ohira Japanese • 1946 Glass art – hard, fragile, cold and often heavy – is not typically designed to be handled. Yoichi Ohira's luminous blown glass vessels, however, offer an exception to this trend. They are small and light enough to be turned in one's hands like a Wunderkammer specimen, inviting the viewer to admire his abstracted design vocabulary of gemstones, polished ivory, veined rocks, shimmering water, agate, moss and lichens. Ohira has been compared to Emile Gallé for his ability to emulate the natural world in glass. Comparisons may also be drawn to Jean Dunand's bronze vessels, Japanese rokusho patina and Otto Natzler's volcanic glazes – an impressive range of media to be translated into glass. Yoichi Ohira graduated from the Kuwasawa Design School, Tokyo in 1969. Shortly thereafter he took up a glassblowing apprenticeship at the Kagami Crystal Company, Ltd. In 1973 Ohira moved to Venice to study at the Accademia di Belle Arti; he graduated in 1978 earning the highest possible grade for his thesis, "The Aesthetics of Glass." In the late 1980s Ohira began collaborating with Murano glassmakers, earning the "Premio Selezione" of the Premio Murano in 1987. View More Works

Auction archive: Lot number 47
Auction:
Datum:
26 Sep 2013
Auction house:
Phillips
London
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