Live Auction 3474BARRY FRIEDMAN: THE ECLECTIC EYE Italian Glass
NAPOLEONE MARTINUZZI (1892-1977) FOR VENINI
Lot 320

NAPOLEONE MARTINUZZI (1892-1977) FOR VENINI

A RARE SUCCULENT IN PULEGOSO, MODEL 2475, CIRCA 1929

Closed27 March 2014

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NAPOLEONE MARTINUZZI (1892-1977) FOR VENINI
A RARE SUCCULENT IN PULEGOSO, MODEL 2475, CIRCA 1929
blown and modeled bubble glass
13 in. (33 cm.) high
unmarked

Specialist note

cf. L'Art Vivant, december 1930, p. 960.
M. Barovier, Napoleone Martinuzzi Venini 1925-1931, exhibition catalogue, Milan, 2013, p. 286 for the design and a period photograph of another example.

Recorded in a hitherto unknown catalogue in the archive of the late Anna Venini-Diaz de Santillana, Milan.

CAPTION: Another cactus of this model, L'Art Vivant, december 1930, p. 960.