WYNN LAS VEGAS PROPERTY ARTWORK
ATTEMPTING TO CALM A TITAN
& MERCURY ASCENDING AZO
Exciting, active, and masterfully painted with superb
coloring and presence, Attempting to Calm a Titan and the
companion piece, Mercury Ascending Azo, relate to the
important developments of abstract expressionism that
allowed America to capture the center of the international
art world previously dominated by Paris. These pieces
were created by a young, emerging artist, David Guidera
and are located in the Wynn Convention Center corridor.
BRONZE STATUES
Created by the late artist Stephan Weiss, the two bronze
sculptures located at the Wynn Main Valet and South Valet
welcome guests as they arrive at the resort. Weiss was the
husband and business manager of fashion designer
Donna Karan, but not many people knew he also was a
distinguished artist and sculptor as well as creator of the
iconic bottles for her scents. The horse and shoe
sculptures evoke high fashion and sport, so it’s no
coincidence that they are also conveniently located near
the Wynn Esplanade, the resort’s luxury shopping venue
and the resort’s race and sports lounge.
DIVA
Miriam Schapiro's Diva pays homage to woman as the
central focus in the proscenium frame of life's drama. She
is accompanied by a musician and dancer, both males in
supporting roles. Schapiro includes a collage of fabrics
appropriate to the festival on the stage it celebrates. Diva
and her companion canvases Master of Ceremonies and
Dancing as Fast as I can, which portray African mask
totems are located in the Wynn Convention Center
corridor. Miriam Schapiro’s other canvases from this
important series are in the private collection of Mrs. Elaine
Wynn and currently grace the Smith Center for the
Performing Arts.
EIFFEL CHANDELIER
This extraordinary chandelier was designed by famed Eiffel
Tower designer and architect, Gustav Eiffel. Originally
designed for an apartment building in 1918, Mr. Wynn
bought the chandelier at an auction at Christie’s Paris and
restored it before installing it at Wynn’s Terrace Point Café
entrance. Crafted of wood, the chandelier is extremely
fragile and includes the original Favrile Glass shades.
FULL FATHOM FIVE
Full Fathom Five was created by Tim Bavington, the
renowned British painter who lives and works in Las
Vegas. Bavington primarily paints in a series of graphic
stripes, with each stripe representing one musical note in a
selected musical composition. Full Fathom Five is based
on the song “Elephant Stone” by Stone Roses and is
inspired by the Sylvia Plath poem of the same title. The
piece is located adjacent to Terrace Pointe Café.
HEROIC SCALED GAUCHED
PAINTING
This untitled heroic scaled gauche painting was purchased
from the Paris flea market at Clignancort and was likely
created in the early 1950s as a cartoon for the by famed
Aubousson weavers of France. While the artist is
unknown, it’s a triumph of composition and color. This
dynamic and colorful composition portrays a festival in the
country and illustrates traditional provincial costumers and
country activities in modernist style and color. The painting
is located in the Wynn Convention Center corridor.
METROPOLITAN TAPESTRY
The Metropolitan Tapestry, located near the Lobby Bar &
Café at Encore was created by Japanese artist, Kazumi
Yoshida. The tapestry integrates the elegance and
economy of Yoshida’s native aesthetic with the joie de
vivre of the Parisian artistic tradition of the 20th century.
Innovative, distinctive and exquisitely colored, his
tapestries ricochet this royal eighteenth century treasure of
craftsmanship into the twenty-first century.
RAOUL DUFY SILK TAPESTRY
The untitled Raoul Dufy tapestry created in the 1940s and
is located near The Country Club, is the largest Dufy
painting in existence. Measuring 107 inches by 164 inches
and is painted in translucent colors on untreated silk. Dufy
was a renowned French post-impressionist known for his
superb fluidity and masterful colorings. The piece reflects
the post-war return to abundance and the good life. It is
believed it was created for a palatial dining room.
SUNFLOWER FABRIC PANELS
Located in the elevator alcove for the Wynn Resort Tower,
the Sunflower Panels weren’t originally intended as
artwork. They are remnants of fabric discovered in Venice,
Italy by Roger Thomas our EVP of Wynn Interior Design. It
was woven to demonstrate the height of accomplishment
and complexity of the weaver’s art by famed textile house
Rubelli. Its complexity made it far too costly for production
so it stands as a superb example of the highest attainable
in textile arts.
THREADERS-TOPAZ & LAPIZ
Threaders, located near La Cave, was created by New
York Artist Frank Owen. A personal favorite of Mr. Wynn,
Owen works in the technically challenging and difficult
medium of encaustic, i.e., oil pigments suspended in highly
filtered beeswax. Encaustic gives a depth and luminosity to
color which Frank Owens uses to full advantage, layering
veils of brilliance in very active painterly strokes and
gestures into a riotous active and energetic composition
which visually defies the two dimensional canvas surface.
TULIPS
Rendered in mirror-polished stainless steel and
transparent color coating, the sculpture Tulips illuminates
the Wynn Theater rotunda. Tulips was acquired at auction
in November 2012. The legendary piece is the sculptural
culmination of artist Jeff Koons’s Celebration series.
Created in five unique versions, Tulips is one of the largest
and most complex sculptures in the series. The sculpture
represents a bouquet of twisted balloon flowers, which
have been cast in stainless steel and brought to a high
mirror polish and plated in a vivid spectrum of color.
VIOLA FREY SCULPTURE
A favorite of Steve Wynn, American artist Viola Frey’s
sculptures are reminiscent of works by Matisse, another
favorite artist of Wynn. Frey’s detailed ceramic sculpture,
located in Terrace Pointe Café, is lighthearted and colorful
in theme and features intricate details based on mementos
accumulated during one’s lifetime that make it a focal point
and conversational centerpiece in the restaurant foyer.