Gijs Bakker
"Dahlia" Neckpiece

"Dahlia" Neckpiece

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"Dahlia" Neckpiece
"Dahlia" Neckpiece
ArtistDutch, born 1942
CultureDutch
Titles
  • "Dahlia" Neckpiece
Date1985
MediumPVC and flower petals
DimensionsOverall: 13 × 11 7/8 × 1/16 in. (33 × 30.2 × 0.2 cm)
Credit LineHelen Williams Drutt Collection, gift of Helen Williams Drutt English
Object number2002.3595
Non exposé

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ProvenanceThe artist; acquired by Helen Williams Drutt English; given to MFAH, 2002.
Exhibition History"Gijs Bakker," Helen Drutt: Philadelphia, May 10–June 7, 1986.

"The Abstract Impulse: Selections from the Modern and Contemporary Collections," Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, February 3–May 5, 2013.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
"GB '85" is etched beside the largest petal

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