INSCRIBED AND DATED PAUL J. STANKARD A31 '91

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A PAUL STANKARD FLOWER AND INSECT WEIGHT*
INSCRIBED AND DATED PAUL J. STANKARD A31 '91
The clear glass set with a naturalistic branch of mountain laurel, with two open white bell-shaped blossoms each with red tipped stamen and orange pistol, flanking two shaded pink buds growing from a shaded brown branch issuing four leaves, including one nibbled by an insect, a pollen laiden honey bee rests at the branch join above a third bud
3 1/8 in. (7.9 cm.) diameter; 2 3/8 in. (6 cm.) high

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Lot Essay

See Ulysses Grant Dietz, Paul Stankard, Homage to Nature, New York, 1996, p. 146-147, for a Blackberry and Coronet Diptych with Golden Bowl and Honeybees, 1995, illustrating a later example from the Millo Collection which celebrates this industrious insect.

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