Modern Glass featuring Masterworks from Murano 
10 December 2009
Dino Martens, Frammentato vase - Image 1 of 1
Modern Glass featuring Masterworks from Murano 
Dino Martens, Frammentato vase - Image 1 of 1
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Dino Martens

Frammentato vase

Aureliano Toso
Italy, 1955
internally decorated glass with cane fragments 10¾ h × 6 w × 3 d in (27 × 15 × 8 cm)
estimate: $2,000–4,000
result: $4,375
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For the Frammentati series Martens utilized damaged and recycled glass elements to create unique and colorful objects.
literature: Dino Martens: Muranese Glass Designer, Heiremans, pg. 46 discusses technique

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Dino Martens 1894–1970

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Born in Venice in 1894, Dino Martens studied painting and design at the Accademia di Belle Art in Rome. A talented artist, his paintings were exhibited at the Venice Biennale between 1924 and 1930. In the mid-1920s, Martens was a partner and decorator for S.A.L.I.R. and later took a position as designer for Salviati & Co. In 1939, upon returning from the African War, Martens became artistic director for the famed glass firm, Aureliano Toso.

Martens' work for Aureliano Toso has become legendary for its inventiveness, experimentation and excess. His innovative use of oversized murrines, brightly colored metallic powders and fragments of glass rods, all expressed in wildly biomorphic forms, have become synonymous with Murano glass style of the 1950s.

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