Jean Claude Novaro

JEAN CLAUDE NOVARO (Antibes, France, 1943- Monaco, 2014).
"Venus", 2007.
Vitreous paste.
Signed and dated on the back.
Measurements: 57 x 24 x 9 cm.
For nearly 50 years, Jean Claude Novaro perfected the art of creating glass sculptures. Novaro has become world famous not only for his technical mastery and innovation, but also for his technique, a rarity even among the most accomplished glass masters. Each creative action is pre-planned and intentional, designed to achieve a specific result. Born in 1943 in Antibes (France), Novaro apprenticed at age 14 with Eloi Monod in Biot. He became a master glassmaker at the age of 20 and opened his own glass factory ten years later. Since then, Novaro has developed a style known not for its delicacy, but for its weight, depth and complex layering of colors with transparent glass, a particularly difficult effect to achieve. Novaro has not only mastered the incorporation of gold leaf into its glass, but is the first in 3,500 years of glassmaking history to add luminescent elements, a technique it has patented.
Novaro has been awarded the Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres (Knight of Arts and Letters) by the French government. His work is in glass museums around the world, in countries such as his native France, the United States, Germany, Denmark, Belgium, Australia and Japan. At a recent NATO event, Novaro glass was presented to representatives of all NATO countries in attendance. His work can be found in important collections.