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24 January 2019

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Dino Martens
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Rare and Monumental Mario Opalino vase

Aureliano Toso
Italy, c. 1962
opaline glass with turquoise applications 16 h × 4¼ w × 4¼ d in (41 × 11 × 11 cm)

estimate: $15,000–20,000

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Signed with paper studio label to underside: [Mario 89 mod.whit 48.00 Dept.1]. Signed with applied foil distributor's label to shoulder: [Vetri Murano Export-Glass Maria Sanrogno Venezia San Marco 338].
provenance: Private Collection, Milan
literature: Vetreria Aureliano Toso, Murano 1938-1968: Designs by Dino Martens, Enrico Potz and Gino Poli, Heiremans, pg. 120 illustrates similar 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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