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Modern Design, Fine Art & Jewelry - August Day 1

Sat, Aug 16, 2025 11:00AM EDT
  2025-08-16 11:00:00 2025-08-16 11:00:00 America/New_York Sarasota Estate Auction Sarasota Estate Auction : Modern Design, Fine Art & Jewelry - August Day 1 https://bid.sarasotaestateauction.com/auctions/sarasota-estate/modern-design-fine-art-jewelry---august-day-1-18216
Over 900 lots will be offered in day 1 of our 2 day auction weekend! There are multiple lots of fine art from mixed medias and abstracts to landscapes and lithographs. We have a Lifetime Collection of Fashion, Movie Ephemera, Art Glass Sculptures, Modern Furniture, Fantastic Estate Jewelry, and more.
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Lot 16

Christina Bothwell (born 196) American, Mixed Media Sculpture "While You Were Sleeping"

Estimate: $1,000 - $1,500
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Christina Bothwell (born 196) American, Mixed Media Sculpture "While You Were Sleeping". Ceramic and glass statue of a sleeping girl, with an image of her soul rising from her body in dreams. Unsigned. Attribution included.

Proceeds from this sale will benefit students at the Ringling College of Art & Design. 

Size: 23 x 12 x 11 1/2 in.

 

Christina Bothwell (born December 1, 1960, in New York City) is an American contemporary sculptor whose richly layered works combine cast glass, pit-fired ceramics, oil paint, and sometimes found objects to explore the cycles of birth, death, renewal, and metamorphosis. Trained initially in painting at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, she transitioned in the late 1990s to three-dimensional forms after discovering the expressive possibilities of glass alongside clay. Bothwell often creates translucent figures containing smaller figures or animal-human hybrids—visual metaphors for the soul, inner awareness, or latent potential—melding her own dream imagery with natural motifs. She has received prestigious grants such as the Pollock‑Krasner Foundation Award and the Virginia A. Groot Foundation’s first-place grant for excellence in sculpture, and her work is included in numerous public collections including the Corning Museum of Glass, Racine Art Museum, Shanghai Museum of Glass Art, Mobile Museum of Art, Palm Springs Museum, and the Tutsek‑Stiftung Foundation. In her recent work—often made in collaboration with her husband, Robert Bender—she incorporates wood, beeswax, and botanical paint details to evoke dreamlike, magical realism in sculptural form, with themes of change, courage, and letting go of the past.

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23 x 12 x 11 1/2 in.