Bill Schiffer Cement Sunglasses Sculpture

Item Details

A cement sculpture of sunglasses by contemporary American artist Bill Schiffer. This scale cement replica of a pair os sunglasses features hinged arms. The work is signed in black in on the inside of the right arm ‘B. Schiffer ’89’.

Born in New York, Bill Schiffer rose to prominence as a painter and sculptor in the early 1980’s. Though he still works in many two dimensional and three dimensional art mediums, Schiffer is most well known for his unique handcrafted jewelry, which he started designing after a foray experimenting with wearable art in the fashion scene. Bill Schiffer’s art and jewelry has been shown in the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, the Musee des Arts Decoratifs in Paris, as well as major museums in Italy, Japan, Germany and the United States. His work has been featured in publications including Vogue, Elle, Bazaar, Women’s Wear Daily, Seventeen and Cosmopolitan.

Condition

- toning on cement.

Dimensions

- measures sculpture with open stems.

Item #

17NYC108-157