A Glass Sculpture 'Vase - Omaggio a Miro'
Walter Furlan (Chioggia bei Venedig 1931)
Lot-No. 516
Proceeds : 2.300 €
Polychrome Glass. Laterally artist's mark, sign. 'Furlan Walter' and inscribed 'Omaggio a Miro' (etched). H. 41 cm. - Provenance: Private Collection Hamburg. - Venetian glass artist, he went to work at an early age in VAMSA glassworks where he was apprenticed to Romano Tosi, better-known as 'Mamaracio'. Then Furlan joined Gino Cenedese glassworks where he met the legendary glass artists Gino Forte and Flavio Poli and learned the 'massello'-technique that would later become his favorite method. In the 1970s he joined Seguso Vetri d'Arte. - Throughout his life Furlan was inspired by the work of Picasso and expressed it in glass sculptures.
Walter Furlan: A Glass Sculpture 'Vase - Omaggio a Miro'
Walter Furlan (Chioggia bei Venedig 1931)
A Glass Sculpture 'Vase - Omaggio a Miro'
Lot-No. 516
Proceeds : 2.300 €
Polychrome Glass. Laterally artist's mark, sign. 'Furlan Walter' and inscribed 'Omaggio a Miro' (etched). H. 41 cm. - Provenance: Private Collection Hamburg. - Venetian glass artist, he went to work at an early age in VAMSA glassworks where he was apprenticed to Romano Tosi, better-known as 'Mamaracio'. Then Furlan joined Gino Cenedese glassworks where he met the legendary glass artists Gino Forte and Flavio Poli and learned the 'massello'-technique that would later become his favorite method. In the 1970s he joined Seguso Vetri d'Arte. - Throughout his life Furlan was inspired by the work of Picasso and expressed it in glass sculptures.