201: DINO MARTENS, rare and monumental a cane vase, model 6801 < Important Italian Glass, 9 June 2012 < Auctions

Important Italian Glass

9 June 2012

Important Italian Glass

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Dino Martens
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rare and monumental a cane vase, model 6801

Aureliano Toso
Italy, 1958
internally decorated glass 22 h × 5 dia in (56 × 13 cm)

estimate: $15,000–20,000

result: $12,500

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Like many of the great Murano glass designers of the 20th century, Dino Martens was an accomplished painter. Working with the Aureliano Toso glass factory he produced a remarkable series of vases between 1946 and 1960 which combined traditional Venetian techniques with bold colors and asymmetrical forms.
Signed with partial foil manufacturer's label to underside: [Aureliano Toso Murano].
provenance: Collection of Odetto Lastra, Union City, NJ
literature: Dino Martens: Muranese Glass Designer, Heiremans, pg. 134 illustrates this example

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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