The transparency is developed and examined on an illuminated table that is color-balanced to match the studio lamps.
As the audience enters, we see the actor Stanley Townsend, called simply the Man, criss-crossing an artist's workshop, its white walls covered in sheets of multi-coloured potato prints, lit by studio lamps.
Stern has also left a legacy of work in direct succession to her late mentor, the German portraitist August Sander; her own theories of light, as exemplified in her Ramos house filled with natural sunlight and whitewashed walls, without studio lamps; a love of the arts and, as the catalogue for a 1950 show of hers (in Washington) described it: "A bitter realism..
As they worked, the cast could hear Ayers, in a music studio that Lamp had built for him, playing through the walls.
After moving to Los Angeles, in 1962, she began to paint moody, oddly Velázquez-like still-lifes of things in her studio — a lamp, a hot plate, a space heater — and a view of the freeway from a snapshot that she took in her car.
Other noteworthy sales included an Etruscan bronze by Royal-Athena Galleries; a 17th-century Mexican tortoise-shell and mother-of-pearl inlaid chest by Arita Gallery of Buenos Aires; Suzani and ikat textiles by Gallery Afrodit of Ankara, Turkey; and a Tiffany Studios peony lamp from 1900, sold by Macklowe.
There are four bronze and Favrile-glass stalactite chandeliers from Tiffany Studios, Daum lamps and Lalique vases, among many other examples.
It can be seen in his obsessively detailed drawings of ancient ships and sea monsters in "Maakies," and in the golden cherubs of his studio's table lamp or the accordion at his feet.
Artificial light setups in the studio, with tungsten lamps or electronic flash, offer the greatest flexibility.
Studio 212 table lamps from Paris with stainless-steel stems and shades of Plexiglas, wood or paper are $412 to $487.50.
