CGI model render
Judith Leyster, from Tulip Book, c.1643
Rob and Nick Carter
Black Tulip, 2012
Black-patinated bronze
33 x 12.7 x 12.7 cm
13 x 5 x 5 in
13 x 5 x 5 in
Edition of 12 plus 5 artists' proofs
RN914
£ 16,000.00
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after Judith Leyster (1609-60) from Tulip Book, c.1643 watercolour and silverpoint on vellum 16 × 11 × 2 in | 41 × 28 × 5.1 cm Frans Hals Museum, Haarlem...
after
Judith Leyster (1609-60)
from Tulip Book, c.1643
watercolour and silverpoint on vellum
16 × 11 × 2 in | 41 × 28 × 5.1 cm
Frans Hals Museum, Haarlem
Black Tulip (2012) is based on a watercolour of an ‘Early Brabantsson’ tulip by Judith Leyster dating from 1643. A 3D digital model was created to produce a 3D-printed maquette from which the final work could be cast in bronze using the lost-wax process — the Carters’ sculptural rendition of this simple drawing conveys the original’s quietness and subtle beauty.
It stands for more than twenty-first-century digital triumph — rather it takes the viewer full circle to marvel at Dutch Golden Age realism and allows us to share in that culture’s delight of an exotic and sculptural flower.
Judith Leyster (1609-60)
from Tulip Book, c.1643
watercolour and silverpoint on vellum
16 × 11 × 2 in | 41 × 28 × 5.1 cm
Frans Hals Museum, Haarlem
Black Tulip (2012) is based on a watercolour of an ‘Early Brabantsson’ tulip by Judith Leyster dating from 1643. A 3D digital model was created to produce a 3D-printed maquette from which the final work could be cast in bronze using the lost-wax process — the Carters’ sculptural rendition of this simple drawing conveys the original’s quietness and subtle beauty.
It stands for more than twenty-first-century digital triumph — rather it takes the viewer full circle to marvel at Dutch Golden Age realism and allows us to share in that culture’s delight of an exotic and sculptural flower.
Expositions
202325 Years, RNat5A, London
2022
The Collection of Juan Manuel Grasset, Exceptional Still Lifes and Landscapes from the ‘Golden Age’ of Dutch and Flemish Art, Sotheby's, London
2017
Turkish Tulips, curated by Gavin Turk, Museum van Loon, Amsterdam
2015
Transforming, MOCA Virginia
2013
Transforming, Fine Art Society Contemporary, London
Catalogues
2013Transforming
Published by the Fine Art Society, Contemporary
Texts by Kate Bryan and Alastair Sooke