Brother Joseph McNally Collection Online Auction

Interior Self Portrait; Executed 1976 - 1996; Bronze with Glass; 100 x 40 x 20 cm (overall); 91 x 40 x 20 cm (without base)

This bronze sculpture has a green glass center and is one-of-a-kind. In the middle, a perfectly formed spherical glass orb is surrounded by crystalised green glass. The sphere is surrounded by a reflecting glass that has various shades of green strewn about it, giving it an iridescent appearance. Self-portraiture may have started out as just that: a self-portrait with classic aspects of vanitas and memento mori - following in the footsteps of self-conception in a mirror pregnant with meaning.