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  Arrigo Varettoni de Molin, “Conflict”, Oil on canvas 1945

  ARRIGO VARETTONI DE MOLIN (1902-1985)

  Conflict 1945

  Oil on canvas

  Signed: de molin 1945 (lower left on front of canvas)

  For more information see: Who’s Who in America, Series II, no. 11 (November 1, 1941) p. 6.

  Canvas: H: 38” x W: 44”

  Framed: H: 45 ½” x W: 51”

  The work of Arrigo De Molin shows a genuine understanding of everyday people. His paintings have sympathy, humor and a touch of gentle irony. The artist himself, after immigrating to the United States from Borca di Cadore, Italy in 1921, had the opportunity to study art and design at Cooper Union and the Art Students’ League. His first enterprises as a theatrical designer and painter of community and church murals heavily influenced his later portrayals of New York City life. These, his most revered works, were exhibited at the Vendome Art Galleries in 1941. Later in life, de Molin, persevered as an independent artist, diversifying his talents to span design and invention.

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  Salvatore Meli Important large scale Italian Sculpture / Ewer 1952

  SALVATORE MELI (b. 1929)  Italy

  Important Sculpture / Ewer   1952

  Glazed terra cotta, brown and dark green with white scraffito decoration, original stepped and angular wood base.

  Signed: Meli 1952 Roma

  For more info on Meli see: Design 1935-1965, What Modern was, ed. Martin Eidelberg (New York: Harry Abrams, 1991) p. 237.

  Salvatore Meli belongs to that initial group of artists, including Guido Gambone and Lucio Fontana among others, who elevated Italian ceramics to a fine art during the post-war period.  Meli conceived this vessel, first on paper, then by laboriously constructing the body in clay, coil by coil, to achieve the richly textured and dynamic form; the incised and painted decoration is in concert with the organic shape.  The massive scale of this work defies function as a ewer but was created as a sculptural object.  The original wooden base recalls Italian futurist sculpture forms of the early twentieth century.

  H (with base):  23 1/2” x W:  13” x D:  9.5”
  H (without base):  19 1/8”

  Price: $27,500

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  Alberto Marconetti / Italian Post-War Design Armchairs c. 1960’s

  ALBERTO MARCONETTI  Milan, Italy (active Argentina)

  Armchairs (Two available) c. 1960’s

  Oak, painted iron, leather strapwork and seat

  Marks:  by Alberto Marconetti  (script signature)

  H: 40 1/2”  x  W:  27”  x D: 21”
  Seat height: 19″

  Price: $7,450 (each)

  This pair of armchairs nods to the influence of such Italian designers as Carlo Bugatti and Carlo Mollino yet are their own unique creation.  They have an unusual anthropomorphic quality in that the frame suggests a skeletal structure.  In addition, the leather strapwork, iron loops and hooks allude to the equipage of the ancient Roman equestrian order.

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  Fred Borcherdt Abstract sculpture c. 1970

  FRED BORCHERDT

  Abstract sculpture c. 1970

  Lacquered red wood on an orange plexiglass base