Lot 409
  • 409

Piero Fornasetti

Estimate
12,000 - 18,000 USD
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Description

  • Piero Fornasetti
  • Four-Panel "Acrobats" Screen
  • lithographic transfer-print on lacquered wood and brass on casters
  • the reverse decorated with "Canna" pattern

Provenance

Collection of the artist
Thence by descent
Christie's Los Angeles, Important Design, The Life of Fornasetti, May 16, 1998, lot 145
Acquired from the above by the present owner

Exhibited

Piero Fornasetti, Landesgewerbeamt, Kaiserlautern, Germany, 1962
Piero Fornasetti:  Memorie E Illusioni, Nuova Galleria, Parma, April, 9-April 30, 1989
Fornasetti:  Designer of Dreams, Victoria & Albert Museum, London, October 2, 1991-January 19, 1992

Literature

Piero Fornasetti, exh. cat., Landesgewerbeamt, Kaiserlautern, Germany, 1962, n.p.
Piero Fornasetti:  Memorie E Illusioni, exh. cat., Parma, Italy, 1989, n.p. 
Patrick Mauries, Fornasetti:  Designer of Dreams, exh. cat., Victoria & Albert Museum, London, 1991, pp. 216-217
Barnaba Fornasetti, Fornasetti: The Complete Universe, New York, 2010, pp. 402 and 424-425