'SOMNIUM', 1998

Details

TIMO SARPANEVA 1926-2006
'SOMNIUM', 1998
executed by Maestro Pino Signoretto, blown cased glass
11 ¾ in. (30 cm.) high
engraved Timo Sarpaneva 1998 Pino Signoretto Murano

Provenance

Timo Sarpaneva, thence by descent.

Special notice

Artist's Resale Right ("Droit de Suite"). Artist's Resale Right Regulations 2006 apply to this lot, the buyer agrees to pay us an amount equal to the resale royalty provided for in those Regulations, and we undertake to the buyer to pay such amount to the artist's collection agent.

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Lot Essay

This work is unique. The crepuscular depth of the colour of the body is heightened by a thin profile of pale orange glass, invoking poetic reference to the Northern Lights of Lapland. The technical superiority and stylistic perfection of this work represents an evolution of the techniques and forms inaugurated in the early 1950s by the Lancetti and Orchidea series of 1952-1954.

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