JAMES COIGNARD (1925-2008). SCULPTURE, MULTIPLE STUDIO GLASS, LIMITED EDITION, CIRCA 2000S.

Designer sculpture by James Coignard (1925-2008) for Berengo Studio in Murano, Italy, from the circa 2000s.
Handmade sculpture in mixed media of multiple studio glass. Hand-signed and numbered lower left: 4 of 8 copies.

Dimensions:
Height: approx. 35 cm
Width x depth: approx. 30.5 x 10 cm
Weight: approx. 18.3 kg

James Coignard (1925–2008) was a French painter, printmaker, and sculptor. As a self-taught artist, he developed an independent visual language that combines influences of European modernism with a poetic, symbolic formal language. He gained international recognition particularly as a master of carborundum etching, whose relief-like surfaces he frequently combined with collage elements. His multi-layered compositions of text fragments, signs, and intense coloration give his works an unmistakable expressive power. Since the 1950s, Coignard exhibited worldwide; his works are now held in numerous significant public collections, including the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, the British Museum, and the Bibliothèque nationale de France.