LOT DETAILS

Materials:

applied and iridized blown glass

Size Notes:

and 39.4 x 8.2 x 5 cm

Description:

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Markings:

one engraved T. STEARNS 62/VENINI/FACCIATA DI VENEZIA/VERSIONE #1 and with acid stamp mark v enini/murano/ITALIA, the other engraved VERSIONE #1/FACCIATA DI VENEZIA/T. STEARNS and with remnants of paper label

Exhibited:

. XXXIa Biennale , Venice, 1962 (model first shown). . The Venetians, Modern Glass 1919-1990 , Muriel Karasik Gallery, New York, October 27-December 2, 1989 (present lot exhibited) . . Gli Artisti di Venini, Per Una Storia del Vetro d'Arte Veneziano , Fondazione Giorgio Cini, Venice, April 24, 1996-June 7, 1996 (present lot exhibited) . . Viva Vetro! Glass Alive! Venice and America , Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, May 12, 2007-September 16, 2007 (present lot exhibited). Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, 2014-2016 (present lot exhibited).

Literature:

Thomas Stearns,. Works of Thomas Stearns 1960-1962 , Venini S.R.L., Venice, 1987, unpaginated (versione II of the model illustrated) . Muriel Karasik,. The Venetians, Modern Glass 1919-1990 , New York, 1989, p. 56 (present lot illustrated) . Marino Barovier, Rosa Barovier Mentasti and Attilia Dorigato, . Il Vetro di Murano alle Biennali 1895-1972 , Milan, 1995, p. 97 (model variant illustrated). Alessandro Bettagno,. Gli Artisti di Venini, Per Una Storia del Vetro d'Arte Veneziano , Milan, 1996, p. 152 (present lot illustrated). Anna Venini Diaz de Santillana, . Venini: Catalogue Raisonne 1921-1986 , Milan, 2000, p. 222 (present lot illustrated). Thomas Stearns,. Works of Thomas Stearns 1960-1962 , Venini S.R.L., Venice, 1987 (series illustrated)

Provenance:

Thomas Stearns, Venice/Philadelphia, 1962. Private Collection, United States. Sold by Thomas Stearns on behalf of the above to Muriel Karasik, New York, July 18, 1988 . Muriel Karasik Gallery, New York. Acquired from the above by the present owner, June 10, 1994.