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Piero Fornasetti 1913–1988

Grattacieli rinascimentali folding screen

Fornasetti Milano
1952 / 1998
lithographic-transfer printed lacquered wood, brass 81 h × 79 w × 1¼ d in (206 × 201 × 3 cm)
estimate: $5,000–7,000
result: $3,556
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Printed manufacturer's mark to lower right corner ‘Fornasetti Milano Made in Italy No 1 di 1/98’. This work has been reviewed by Barnaba Fornasetti.
literature: Fornasetti: The Complete Universe, Fornasetti et. al, ppg. 426, 430 Piero Fornasetti: One Hundred Years of Practical Madness, Fornasetti et. al, pg. 180 illustrates similar example

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With imperturbable patience, Fornasetti fills [functional objects] with drawn inventions, fictions, allusions, symbols...evocations as well as slyness and sweetness; he fills them with illusions.

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