Friday, May 1, 2009

Secondary Market: Art Alliance for Contemporary Glass

Habatat had their Masterworks Auction recently.
Studio glass is absent from Sotheby's and Christie's.
What are prices like elsewhere in the secondary market for contemporary glass on May 1, 2009?
Richard Marquis "Tall Teapot" (15½" x 5" x 4½"--blown glass, signed.)
asking price: $7,000Richard Marquis "Large Orange Teapot" Large Orange Teapot (6½" x 7½" x 7½", blown glass. Includes glass signature cane, also signed.)
asking price: $13,000.Richard Marquis "Crazy Quilt Murinni Teapot 1979 (5" x 5½" x 4½"--blown glass, clear bottom includes signature cane, also signed)
asking price: $6,500Dan Dailey "Bird with Worm / Man with Cigarette" (9" h x 7¼" x 4¾"--"Done at Daum, but signed by Dailey and one-of-a-kind; not part of Daum edition")
asking price: $10,500Richard Marquis "Rocket Jar" ("blown glass clear bottom includes signature cane signed also") asking price: $10,000 for the pairDante Marioni "Leaf Vase" 1993 (33¾" x 9" x 7"--blown glass)
asking price: $8,000Martin Blank "Willing" (26" high--"hot sculpted glass torso with gold leaf")
asking price: $27,000

These pieces are all for sale on the Art Alliance for Contemporary Glass Marketplace website. Here is what a glimpse of the "Offered for Sale" page looks like:
  • Dante Marioni. Leaf Vase, 1993, 33¾" x 9" x 7" blown glass. Click here for photo. $8,000. Inquiries: baisdengallery@aol.com
  • Paul Marioni. 2 "Nudes - Windows," 1982, 28" x 24" x ¼" & 28" x 21" x ¼" leaded glass, freehand cut and assembled, hanging rings for installation, signed. Click here for photo.bw1234@mac.com
    $10,000. / pair. Inquiries:
  • Paul Marioni. "Powder Vase," 14" x 6½" x 6½" blown glass. Click here for photo. $8000. Inquiries: bw1234@mac.com

  • Paul Marioni. "Life on Mars," 1980, 8½" x 7" x 7" blown glass
    with figurative inclusions and canes, signed. Click here for photo. $13.000. Inquiries bw1234@mac.com
  • Richard Marquis. 2 "Rocket Jars," blown glass, signed. Click here for photo. $10,000 / pair. Inquiries: bw1234@mac.com

  • Richard Marquis. Crazy Quilt Murrini Teapot, 1979, 5" x 5½" x 4½", blown glass, clear bottom includes signature cane, also signed. Illustrated in "Richard Marquis- Objects" pg 23. Click here for photo. $6500. Inquiries: bw1234@mac.com

  • Richard Marquis. "Tall Teapot," 15½" x 5" x 4½", blown glass, signed. Click here for photo. $7000. Inquiries: bw1234@mac.com
  • Richard Marquis. Large Orange Teapot, 6½" x 7½" x 7½", blown glass. Includes glass signature cane, also signed. Click here for photo. $13,000. Inquiries: bw1234@mac.com.

  • Richard Marquis. "Crazy Quilt Banded Cylinder," 1979, 13½" x 4" x 4" with signature cane and signed. Click here for photo. $9,000. Inquiries: bw1234@mac.com

  • Mark Matthews "Midas Touch", grouping of 7 glass spheres and bowl. Tiger Predator sphere (3"), Filigrana sphere from 1993, Irridescent Aurene Pearl sphere, and a gold air trap rectangle sphere. Each sphere, and the bowl, are signed and dated. Spheres from ½" to 3" dia; bowl 10" x 6". Click here for photo. $9,800. Inquiries: Jonathan, 516-313-2218 or ninesfull@hotmail.com

  • Mark Matthews "Blue & Orange, for Now", grouping of 11 glass spheres and bowl. Royal Blue Overlay sphere from 1993 and 4 complementary Opaque Banded Lutz spheres, clear blown bowl with sandblasted foot. Each sphere, and the bowl, are signed and dated. Spheres from ½" to over 3" dia; bowl 11" x 7". Click here for photo. $8,500. Inquiries: Jonathan, 516-313-2218 or ninesfull@hotmail.com

  • William Morris, Vase and three stones (set); matching pieces in Morris' early tribal cave glyphics phase. Vase is 20"h x 14"dia; stones range 12" - 20" long, 10" - 14" wide, 5" high. Click here for photos. $50,000. Inquiries: lmiles@ma-ad.com

  • William Morris. Early orange plate, 1979, approx. 15" diameter x 4" depth, blown glass, signed. Click here for photo. $24,000. Inquiries: bw1234@mac.com
  • William Morris, "Standing Stone," 23" x 11" x 4" blown glass. Click here for photo. $15,000. Inquiries: bw1234@mac.com

  • William Morris. 2 "Shard Vessels," Brown: 1982, 12" x !4" x 5", Purple: 1980, 11" x 10 " x 4." Blown glass, signed. Click here for photo. $ 26,000 for both. Inquiries: bw1234@mac.com

  • William Morris, "Stones Vessel," 1984, 15½" x 16" x 6", signed. Click here for photo. $37,000. Inquiries: bw1234@mac.com

  • William Morris. "Petro Vessel," 1988, 24" x 16" x 14", signed. Click here for photo. $44,000. Inquiries: bw1234@mac.com


Art Alliance for Contemporary Glass "MarketPlace". Website accessed May 1, 2009. http://www.contempglass.org/market_place/wantad.html

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