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Nicolas Africano (American, b.1948), Sleeping Girl, 1990. Cast glass with oil, water seal.

By Bergstrom-Mahler Museum of Glass | Published April 8, 2020 | Full size is 850 × 567 pixels

Nicolas Africano (American, b.1948), Sleeping Girl, 1990. Cast glass with oil, water seal.

Nicolas Africano creates scaled, life-size and larger-than-life figures in cast glass. The primary subject of his sculpture is his wife and muse, Rebecca, of whom Sleeping Girl is likely based.

Gift of Lynde B. Uihlein

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