Important Italian Glass Including a Private Collection of Works by Fulvio Bianconi 
11 June 2021
Important Italian Glass Including a Private Collection of Works by Fulvio Bianconi 
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Dino Martens

Nabuco vase from the Oriente series

Aureliano Toso
Italy, c. 1950
internally decorated polychrome patchwork glass with copper inclusions, pinwheel and filigrana 9½ h × 8¾ w × 3¾ d in (24 × 22 × 10 cm)
estimate: $5,000–7,000
result: $9,375
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provenance: Acquired in 1950 by the original owners | Thence by descent in 1955, Private Collection, Knoxville
literature: Dino Martens: Muranese Glass Designer, Heiremans, ppg. 76-81 illustrate series

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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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