Item Number: 133673 Title: Important Italian Glass Author: Blumberg, Sara ; Jim Oliviera (eds) Price: Not Available ISBN: 9780990495512 Description: New York: Wright, 2014. 3 vols. 27cm., pbk., 750pp., 735 color illus. Summary: There is an old Murano saying, “Good tools are nice, but good hands are better”, highlighting the deeply artistic nature of Italian glassmaking. This historic compilation of three outstanding private collections offered at auction covers a wide range of 20th-century Italian glass and features all the titans of the field: Napoleone Martinuzzi, the Baroviers, Fulvio Bianconi, Tomaso Buzzi, Paolo Venini, Carlo Scarpa, Dino Martens and Eugene Berman. Volume 1 (2012) documents the collection of Frank Toskan; Volume 2 (2013), the Parisian private collection, including a fine collection of mid-century glass by Barovier; Volume 3 (2014), contains glass from the Dimitri Levas collection and is currently the highest grossing Italian Glass sales in history. Levas began collecting in 1979 just as these works entered the secondary market, buying from the legendary Fifty/50 Gallery in New York. For the first time all three volumes are joined together in this one important document on the best of modernist Italian glass. We regret to inform you that this title is no longer available. P.O. Box 3904, Kingston, New York 12402 US Phone: 845-331-8519 Fax: 845-331-0852 Email: michael@artbooks.com |
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