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Important Italian Glass

13 June 2015

Important Italian Glass

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Dino Martens
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Nabucco vase, model 3121

Aureliano Toso
Italy, 1952
internally decorated opaque polichrome glass with copper inclusions, pinwheel and filigrana 9½ h × 8¾ w × 4 d in (24 × 22 × 10 cm)

estimate: $7,000–9,000

result: $6,985

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literature: Venetian Art Glass: An American Collection 1840-1970, Barovier, pg. 280 illustrates this example Dino Martens: Muranese Glass Designer, Heiremans, ppg. 79, 160 illustrate model

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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