a portrait of the Milanese collector, curator, critic, and art historian, Laura Mattioli Rossi, as she appeared in 2000 (except with somewhat-attenuated head and neck details, and no hair), at 65% scale, with miniscule vertical / radial fluting throughout (except for the smooth mirror-polish on the one open eye and the stylized neck viscera), in an aggregate of lapis lazuli and other indeterminate stone types (commonly-called ‘Sodalite’) which the artist procured in Carrara, Italy, in June, 2003

2000 - 2005

lapis lazuli aggregrate

9-3/4 x 4-7/16 x 5-3/4 in (24.8 x 11.3 x 14.6 cm)