Paul Marioni
American, b. 1941
The Fool, 1986
Cast glass
Gift of Lisa Jan Rose and Kenneth L. Koenig, MD and Sara Jane Rose and Jay Shanker, 2021
Visual Description: This is a glass sculpture of a person’s head that stands almost a foot tall. The head sits on a rough silver base, decorated with a pattern of circles and small dots, dusted with bright yellow. The figure’s head is ovoid and opaque, ranging in color from a rich, saturated yellow at its base to a frosted pastel peach at the top. The head has swirls and grooves along its surface and the figure’s eyes are glass swirls that end in small, raised circles at their centers. Along the top of the fool’s head are a series of raised glass bumps.
