178: DINO MARTENS, Pulegoso vase, model 5228 from the Arlecchino series < Murano Glass, 18 February 2025 < Auctions

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18 February 2025

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Dino Martens
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Pulegoso vase, model 5228 from the Arlecchino series

Aureliano Toso
Italy, c. 1954
white pulegoso glass with polychrome inclusions 11¼ h × 5¼ dia in (29 × 13 cm)

estimate: $2,000–3,000

result: $2,032

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provenance: Collection of Dimitri Levas
literature: 20th Century Murano Glass, Heiremans, pg. 124, no. 156 illustrates similar example

This work will ship from Lambertville, New Jersey.

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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