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Lady Nectar with Hummers
Sculpture

2001
43 x 39 x 16 in. (109.22 x 99.06 x 40.64 cm)

Anthony 'Tony' Natsoulas (aka Tony Natsoulas) (Ann Arbor, Michigan, 1959 - )

Object Type: Sculpture
Medium and Support: Glazed ceramic
Credit Line: Gift of Ross and Paula Turk
Accession Number: 2005.09

Exhibition

Nuts and Who's: A Candy Store Sampler, August 11, 2023 – February 25, 2024, Gibson Family Gallery and Plaza Gallery, San José Museum of Art.

Character Studies: Clay from the Collection
, October 3, 2015 - February 7, 2016, New Wing, Second Floor, North Gallery, San José Museum of Art.

Human Form in Clay, November 11, 2006 - December 12, 2006, Museum of Ceramic Art, Hyogo, Japan.

Human Form in Clay, March 18, 2006 - June 25, 2006, Shigaraki Ceramic Cultural Park, Japan.

Tales from the Kiln: Contemporary Ceramics, September 1, 2005 – July 9, 2006, New Wing, Second Floor, North Gallery, San José Museum of Art.

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Character Studies: Clay from the Collection (2015-2016)

Tony Natsoulas created a series of ceramic busts in a style that he playfully refers to as “Barococo”—a combination of the Baroque and Rococo European styles of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. His zany cast of characters push extravagance to the edge of absurdity with profligate costumes, powdered wigs, and penciled beauty marks. Lady Nectar, who bears a striking resemblance to Madame Pompadour and/or Marie Antoinette, wears a turquoise corset with an ornate ruffled collar. Her heavy makeup features bright red lips and a fake beauty mark. Swirling around her head is an enormous wig teeming with hummingbirds that try desperately to suck the sweetness from her. Surprisingly, the woman appears unaware of the nest growing on her head—a detail that enhances the unabashed silliness of the work and reminds us to not take art or history too seriously.


Tales from the Kiln: Contemporary Ceramics (2005-2006)

Tony Natsoulas recently completed a series of ceramic busts done in a style that he playfully refers to as “Barococo”—a combination of the 17th- and 18th-century art historical styles of Baroque and Rococo.

His zany character Lady Nectar, who bears a striking resemblance to Madame Pompadour and/or Marie Antoinette, wears an ornately decorated costume and heavy make-up. She seems blissfully unaware that a family of hummingbirds is building a nest in her enormous powdered wig.

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