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Important Italian Glass

24 March 2022

Important Italian Glass

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Dino Martens
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Frammentati vase, model 6097

Aureliano Toso
Italy, 1954
internally decorated glass 9¾ h × 4¾ dia in (25 × 12 cm)

estimate: $4,000–6,000

result: $6,875

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provenance: Private Collection, New York
literature: Venetian Art Glass: An American Collection 1840-1970, Barovier, ppg. 282-283 illustrate this example Dino Martens: Glass and Drawings, Deboni, pg. 102 illustrates model Dino Martens: Muranese Glass Designer, Heiremans, pg. 110 illustrates 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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