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10 June 2022
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Pietro Chiesa

Floor lamp

Fontana Arte
Italy, c. 1945
brass, sand-blasted, cut and polished glass 78¾ h × 30½ dia in (200 × 77 cm)
estimate: $5,000–7,000
result: $5,625
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literature: Fontana Arte: Gio Ponti, Pietro Chiesa, Max Ingrand, Deboni, nos. 101-102 illustrate similar examples

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[A]rt is creation, art is progress, art is to overturn the canon deemed certain, it is to achieve a new combination, unseen, and to reveal an unknown sensibility, and to substitute, for a belief in today, a belief in tomorrow.

Pietro Chiesa, Realtà, 1931

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