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Napoleone Martinuzzi and Gino Cenedese: Combining the Useful with the Agreeable

Published on , by Claire Papon
Auction on 09 March 2021 - 13:30 (CET) - Salle 5-6 - Hôtel Drouot - 75009

To each their vision of the creation of the world. In the version by Napoleone Martinuzzi and Gino Cenedese, we see Adam and Eve surrounded by fish, shellfish and birds.

Napoleone Martinuzzi (1892-1977) and Gino Cenedese (1907-1973), The Creation of the...  Napoleone Martinuzzi and Gino Cenedese: Combining the Useful with the Agreeable

Napoleone Martinuzzi (1892-1977) and Gino Cenedese (1907-1973), The Creation of the World, two illuminated columns decorated with fourteen multicolored glass blocks depicting Adam and Eve among birds, fish and shellfish in a wooden frame, c. 1953-1958, h. 215 cm (84.6 in).
Estimate: €30,000/50,000

In the 1960s, one Mr. N., a wealthy Spanish industrialist, acquired this pair of lamps by Napoleone Martinuzzi from the Cenedese Gallery in Lugano (Switzerland). As much decorative as utilitarian, they illustrated…
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Tuesday 09 March 2021 - 13:30 (CET) - Live
Salle 5-6 - Hôtel Drouot - 75009 Paris
Crait + Müller