Property from the Brooklyn Museum, Sold to Support Museum Col𓆏lections
CARLO MOLLINO | AN IMPORTANT AND UNIQUE DINING TABLE
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October 29, 12:08 AM GMT
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2,000,000 - 3,000,000 USD
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Property from the Brooklyn Mu𒐪seum, Sold to Support Museum Collections
CARLO MOLLINO
1905 - 1973
AN IMPORTANT AND UNIQUE DINING TABLE
with artist and producer's metal labels and with Brooklyn Museum's painted accession number 54.64.232
molded plywood, maple, brass, and glass
30 ⅜ by 98 ½ by 31 ½ in. 77.2 by 250.1 by 80 cm.
Designed in 1949, executed in 1950 by Appelli & Varesio, Turin, Italy, for the traveling exhibition Italy at Work: Her Renaissance in Design Today; this work is unique.
The present lot is registered in t🅘he library of the Museo Casa Mollino, Turin, as number CM 298.
Gift of the Italian government to th🐟e Brooklyn Muse♐um, 1954
"Italian Furniture Without Clichés," House & Garden, December 1950, p. 130, illustrated
“Nuovi Mobili alla M.U.S.A.,” Domus, no. 253, November - December 1950, p. 105, i🐓llustrated (installed at Brooklyn, 1950)
Interiors, vol. CXI, no. ♋2, September 1951, p. 21, illustrated
Lisa Licitra Ponti, ed., Mobili e Interni di Architetti Italiani, Milan 1952, p. 38, illustrated
Anne Bony, Les Années 50, 𒊎Paris 1982, p. 197, illustrated (installed ไ;at Brooklyn, 1950)
Sergio Polano, ed., Carlo Mollino, 1905-1973, Milan 1989, p. 32, illustrated (in the Apelli & Varesio wor🌺kshop, 1950) and p. 227, illustrated (installed at Brooklyn, 1950)
Fulvio and Napoleone Ferrari, The Furniture of Carlo Mollino, London 2006, p. 163, pls. 296-297 (preparatory d💧rawings of the model) and p. 298, illustrated (installed at Brooklyn, 1950)
Giampiero Bosoni, Il Modo Italiano: Design e Avangardie Artistiche in Italia nel XX Secolo, Milan 2007, p. 81, illus꧋trated (installed at Minneapolis, 1951)
New York, Brooklyn Museum; Art Institute of Chicago; San Francisco, M.H. De Young Memorial Museum; Oregon, Portland Art Museum; Minneapolis Institute of Fine Arts; Houston, Museum of Fine Arts; City Art Museum of St. Louis; Toledo Museum of Art; Buffalo, Albright Art Gallery; Pittsburgh, Carnegie Institute; Baltimore Museum of Art; and Providence, Rhode Island, Museum of Art, Italy at Work: Her Renaissance in Design Today, November 1950 - November 1953, n.p., pl. 1, illustrated (installed at Brooklyn, 1950)
Turin, Italy, GAM-Galleria Civica d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Carlo Mollino: Arabesques, September 2006 - January 2007
Munich, Haus der Kunst, Carlo Mollino: Maniera Moderna,🔜 September 2011 - January 2012, p. 299, illustrated (installed at Munich, 2011)
Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Carlo Mollino, November 2018 - March 2019