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LOUIS COMFORT TIFFANY Two Figures in an Arched Stairway, Venice
Watercolor on paper mounted on board, circa 1870-75. 320x245 mm; 12 1/2x9 5/8 inches. Signed in ink, lower right recto.
Estate of Pat Roberts, founder of The American Museum of Industry and Technology; private collection, Florida.
Tiffany (1848-1933) was an American artist and designer who worked in the decorative arts and is best known for his work in stained glass. He is the American artist most associated with the Art Nouveau and Aesthetic movements. He was affiliated with a prestigious collaborative of designers known as the Associated Artists, which included Lockwood de Forest, Candace Wheeler and Samuel Colman. Tiffany designed stained glass windows and lamps, glass mosaics, blown glass, ceramics, jewelry, enamels and metalwork. He was the first design director at his family company, Tiffany & Co., founded by his father Charles Lewis Tiffany. Tiffany started out as a painter, but became interested in glassmaking from about 1875 and worked at several glasshouses in Brooklyn between then and 1878.
