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Pietro Chiesa

Rare sconces, pair

Fontana Arte
Italy, 1936
glass, mirrored glass, lacquered aluminum, plastic, nickel-plated brass 28⅜ h × 10⅞ w × 4 d in (72 × 28 × 10 cm)
estimate: $20,000–30,000
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provenance: Private Collection, Italy | Thence by descent
literature: Domus, No. 130, October 1938, ppg. 28, 50 Fontana Arte: Una Storia Trasparente, Falconi, ppg. 70, 73

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[A]rt is creation, art is progress, art is to overturn the canon deemed certain, it is to achieve a new combination, unseen, and to reveal an unknown sensibility, and to substitute, for a belief in today, a belief in tomorrow.

Pietro Chiesa, Realtà, 1931

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