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Chain of Glass Tears for Weeping Woman
Chain of Glass Tears for Weeping Woman
Chain of Glass Tears for Weeping Woman
Chain of Glass Tears for Weeping Woman

Chain of Glass Tears for Weeping Woman

Artist (Sunderland, England, 1939 - 2018)
Date1998
Object NameNecklace
Mediumblackened steel, glass
ClassificationsJewellery
DimensionsLength: 41 cm
Teardrops: 9cm
AcquisitionPurchased in 1999 with assistance from the National Fund for Acquisitions, the National Art Collections Fund and the Friends of Aberdeen Art Gallery & Museums.
Copyright© Wendy Ramshaw (2005)
LocationView by Appointment - Aberdeen Treasure Hub
Object numberABDAG011132
About MeWendy Ramshaw is a highly influential artist jeweller. Her distinctive and innovative approach is internationally respected and has had a wide reaching influence on the nature of contemporary jewellery. Her work attracts critical acclaim for its technical brilliance and an underlying creative vitality.

Chain of Glass Tears for Weeping Woman comes from Ramshaw's Picasso's Ladies series, her preoccupation since the mid 1980s. Throughout his lifetime Pablo Picasso painted his various femaile friends, mistresses and lovers, portraying them with tremendous emotion and sensitivity. Picasso's evocative canvases inspired Ramshaw to make a diverse range of three-dimensional jewels for these beautiful women. Her personal response to the images acted as inspiration and starting point for the choice of colours and materials employed to create each jewel.

This exquisite necklace was created for Weeping Woman (1937) depicting Picasso's mistress Dora Maar as the embodiment of Europe on the brink of war. The pain and pathos of this image is elegantly captured in the double stranded cascade of luminous glass droplets, symbolising Maar's own tears.
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Ramshaw, a highly influential artist jeweller, created this after Picasso's "Weeping Woman" (1837), a painting of his mistress as the embodiment of Europe on the brink of war.