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Pietro Chiesa

Floor lamps, pair

Fontana Arte
Italy, 1938
brass, enameled aluminum, glass 83½ h × 14 w × 13 d in (212 × 36 × 33 cm)
estimate: $10,000–15,000
result: $16,380
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Impressed manufacturer's mark to finial ‘Italy’.
provenance: Wright, Important Design, 13 December 2012, Lot 385 | Private Collection

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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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