Bernhard Schobinger
"Lippenstift für Neandertalerin" [Lipstick for Neanderthal Woman] Ring

"Lippenstift für Neandertalerin" [Lipstick  for Neanderthal Woman] Ring

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"Lippenstift für Neandertalerin" [Lipstick for Neanderthal Woman] Ring
"Lippenstift für Neandertalerin" [Lipstick  for Neanderthal Woman] Ring
CultureSwiss
Titles
  • "Lippenstift für Neandertalerin" [Lipstick for Neanderthal Woman] Ring
Date1991
MediumCopper, carborundum, silver, and gold
DimensionsOverall: 1 1/4 × 1 3/16 in. (3.2 × 3 cm)
Credit LineHelen Williams Drutt Collection, museum purchase funded by the Caroline Wiess Law Foundation
Object number2002.4064
Not on view

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ProvenanceThe artist; acquired by Helen Williams Drutt English; purchased by MFAH, 2002.
Exhibition History"Feuer über Wasser," Museum Baviera, Zürich, November 23, 1996–January 31, 1997.

“Ornament as Art: Avant-Garde Jewelry from the Helen Williams Drutt Collection,” Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, September 30, 2007–January 27, 2008; Smithsonian American Art Museum, March 14–July 6, 2008; Mint Museum of Craft and Design, August 16, 2008–January 4, 2009; Tacoma Art Museum, June 27–September 13, 2009.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
"17B.S.91" etched on edge of ring.

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