Lot 51
Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) (Untitled) Rare and Important Toro Vase
1953-58
executed by Ermanno Nason at the glassworks of I.V.R. Mazzega for the Fucina degli Angeli, blown glass with applied decoration; together with a certificate of authenticity
height 6in (15cm); diameter 11 1/2in (29cm)
1953-58
executed by Ermanno Nason at the glassworks of I.V.R. Mazzega for the Fucina degli Angeli, blown glass with applied decoration; together with a certificate of authenticity
height 6in (15cm); diameter 11 1/2in (29cm)
14 December 2021, 14:00 EST
New YorkUS$30,000 - US$50,000
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Pablo Picasso (1881-1973)
(Untitled) Rare and Important Toro Vase
1953-58
executed by Ermanno Nason at the glassworks of I.V.R. Mazzega for the Fucina degli Angeli, blown glass with applied decoration; together with a certificate of authenticity
height 6in (15cm); diameter 11 1/2in (29cm)
1953-58
executed by Ermanno Nason at the glassworks of I.V.R. Mazzega for the Fucina degli Angeli, blown glass with applied decoration; together with a certificate of authenticity
height 6in (15cm); diameter 11 1/2in (29cm)
Footnotes
Entrepreneur Edigio Costantini set up the glass blowers collective named by Jean Cocteau as the Fucina degli Angeli in 1950 as a conduit between internationally renowned contemporary artists and the most skilled glass masters on the island of Murano. The aim of the initiative was to harness the potential of glass as a viable medium for fine artists to explore.
Ermanno Nason was one of the most talented young glass blowers of the period and following his attainment of the highest level of glass blowing in 1952, the level of Maestro Prima Piazza (Master of the Furnace), he began a brief six-year period of work for the Fucina degli Angeli where he collaborated with a number of high-profile artists, most notably Jean Cocteau and Pablo Picasso, to help them realize their sketches into glass. The first exhibition of works was held on Murano itself in 1953 and featured works by Alexander Calder, Henry Moore, and Le Corbusier. In the years that followed the works that were exhibited included designs by Max Ernst, Georges Braque, Jean Arp, Marc Chagall, Lucio Fontana, Fernand Leger, Sol LeWitt, and Picasso. These exhibitions also travelled as far afield as Basel, Paris, and New York, and culminated in Peggy Guggenheim organizing a major exhibition of highlights of the Fucina degli Angeli at New York's Museum of Modern Art in 1965.
During the period of Ermanno Nason's involvement with the collective between 1953 ad 1958 the artworks were produced singularly, however from 1970 Edigio Costantini decreed that each design should be produced in triplicate, with one example being sold, one example being retained by the furnace and the third going to the artist.
The present work is offered with a certificate of authenticity.
Provenance
Private Collection, New York
Private Collection, New Jersey (acquired from the above, circa 1980)
Thence by descent
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