Seagull's Wing

sculpture

artist
- Milena Lah
year1973
signature/inscriptionAUTOR: 1973 / M. LAH/ IZVELI: / HOČEVAR D./ BIŠKUP S. / STUPAR Ž. [all capitals]
dimensions(cm)
- width : 294.5 height : 879.4 depth : 100.8
materials
- Steel
- Paint
owner/custodian
- Municipality of Sisak

Location

ARTWORK INFORMATION

An installation view of Seagull's Wing by Milena Lah in the Sisak Steelworks Sculpture Park (2018)
type: born-digital photograph
date: 2018-10-25
artworks:
- Seagull's Wing
created by:
- Boris Cvjetanović
copyright holder(s):
- University of Split, The Arts Academy
- Boris Cvjetanović
Seagull's Wing by Milena Lah (1973), total. (Photo by Boris Cvjetanović, 25 October 2018 © University of Split, The Arts Academy)

ART-HISTORICAL CONTEXT

Archival color photograph showing the sculpture Seagull’s Wing by Milena Lah
type: scanned image
artworks:
- Seagull's Wing
created by:
- Unknown
copyright holder(s):
- Unknown
Artist Milena Lah with her 1973 sculpture Seagull’s Wing in Sisak (date and photographer unknown) [scan]. Personal archive of the artist. Courtesy of Igor Lah.

Catalogue of the final exhibition of the 1973 Sisak Steelworks Fine Artists Colony
type: scanned-paper-document
artworks:
created by:
- Metallurgical Combine of the Sisak Iron and Steel Works
copyright holder(s):
- Unknown
Sešo, Branka, ed. 1973. 1973 : Kolonija likovnih umjetnika III. Sisak: Kolonija likovnih umjetnika Željezare Sisak. Courtesy of Vlatko Čakširan (Sisak Municipal Museum).

Comment: Black-and-white photographs of Vera Fischer's Symmetry (unpainted), and Milena Lah's Seagull's Wing (unpainted). Short biographies of the two artists.

EXAMINATION / ANALYSIS

Sisak Steelworks Sculpture Park (selected artworks): XRF, Raman and FT-IR spectroscopy of paint samples collected in 2016
type: electronic-document
date: 2018-05-16
artworks:
- Seagull's Wing
- Sculpture V
- Puzzle Column
- Rhythms II
- Door
- Zgurić and Family
- Butterfly
- Man-Machine
- Flower
- Bird
created by:
- Vladan Desnica
copyright holder(s):
- University of Split, The Arts Academy
- University of Zagreb, Academy of Fine Arts
Desnica, Vladan. 2018. "Laboratorijski izvještaj istraživanja provedenih na skulpturama u Parku skulptura, Sisak." Unpublished report. University of Zagreb, Academy of Fine Arts, Department for Conservation and Restoration of Works of Art, Scientific Laboratory.

Optical microscopy, micro FT-IR spectroscopy, and SEM/EDS analysis of metal, corrosion products, and coating samples collected in 2019 from the sculpture Seagull's Wing (1973) by Milena Lah
type: electronic-document
date: 2019-10-31
artworks:
- Seagull's Wing
created by:
- Tea Zubin Ferri
copyright holder(s):
- Research Center for Metal Industry in Istria County METRIS
Zubin Ferri, Tea. 2019. "Optical microscopy, micro FT-IR spectroscopy, and SEM/EDS analysis of metal, corrosion products, and coating samples from the sculpture Seagull's Wing (1973) by Milena Lah." Internal CAPuS report: unpublished. Research Center for Metal Industry in Istria County METRIS.

Comment: Stratigraphic analysis was performed on one sample. Coating characterization was performed by combined micro FT-IR, OM, and SEM/EDS techniques. Corrosion products were analyzed by using SEM/EDS.

Cross-sections of paint samples collected in 2019 from the sculpture Seagull's Wing by Milena Lah
type: born-digital photograph
date: 2019-07-17
artworks:
- Seagull's Wing
created by:
- Tea Zubin Ferri
copyright holder(s):
- Research Center for Metal Industry in Istria County METRIS
Photos (left to right):

[1] Seagull's Wing by Milena Lah (1973), cross-section of the paint sample 2-1, magnification x200. (Photo by Tea Zubin Ferri, 17 July 2019 © Research Center for Metal Industry in Istria County METRIS)

[2] Seagull's Wing by Milena Lah (1973), cross-section of the paint sample 2-1, magnification x500. (Photo by Tea Zubin Ferri, 17 July 2019 © Research Center for Metal Industry in Istria County METRIS)

[3] Seagull's Wing by Milena Lah (1973), cross-section of the paint sample 2-1, magnification x1000. (Photo by Tea Zubin Ferri, 17 July 2019 © Research Center for Metal Industry in Istria County METRIS)

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