Object Details
- Artist
- Bruria, born Jerusalem, Israel 1932
- Luce Center Label
- The quiet and peaceful face of Dream Sequence is painted with blue, purple, and gold paints, while the back of the head is decorated with butterfly decals. Bruria often includes actual cloth on her sculptures like the one that is wrapped around this head, inspired by the lace head coverings her observant mother would wear during their Friday evening Sabbath celebrations.
- Luce Object Quote
- "I leave space for spontaneity when I drape the heads with lace. I never decide beforehand how I will paint the porcelain---the painted image appears from a different meditative space." Artist quoted in Journal, The Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art, Winter 1981
- Credit Line
- Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Jonas Rosenfield, Jr. in memory of Lenore Rosenfield
- 1978
- Object number
- 1981.19
- Restrictions & Rights
- Usage conditions apply
- Type
- Decorative Arts-Ceramic
- Crafts
- Medium
- porcelain, glaze, china paint, decals, and cloth with slip
- Dimensions
- 10 1/4 x 7 x 8 1/2 in. (26.0 x 17.8 x 21.6 cm.)
- See more items in
- Smithsonian American Art Museum Collection
- Department
- Renwick Gallery
- On View
- Smithsonian American Art Museum, Luce Foundation Center, 4th Floor, 53B
- Smithsonian American Art Museum, Luce Foundation Center
- Smithsonian American Art Museum, Luce Foundation Center, 4th Floor
- Smithsonian American Art Museum
- Topic
- Figure female\head
- State of being\phenomenon\dream
- Record ID
- saam_1981.19
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/vk71ea532bc-5775-4d65-be73-614c316cc8d3
