AUCTION
Tuesday 6 November 2018
2.30 pm (CET)
Turin – Sala Bolaffi, via Cavour 17
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Turin – Sala Bolaffi, via Cavour 17
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GIO PONTI 1891-1979
Diavolo per Orfeo
Pencil and tempera drawing, signed and dated on the front. Study for the Devil's costume for Gluck's Orfeo at La Scala Theater in Milan.
10.63 x 7.09 in.
Starting price: € 600 | Estimate : € 800 - 1.200 | Sold for : € 2.600
GIO PONTI 1891-1979
Orfeo
Pencil and watercolor drawing on notepad paper, typewritten English inscriptions on paper sticker on upper right corner. Browning and staining.
10.24 x 8.27 in.
Starting price: € 600 | Estimate : € 800 - 1.200 | Sold for : € 1.800
GIO PONTI 1891-1979
Festa Romantica
Group of six pencil drawings on paper, some heightened in watercolor.
Starting price: € 1.000 | Estimate : € 1.000 - 1.500 | Sold for : € 2.600
Indian ink and black watercolor on paper applied on cardboard.
7.87 x 5.91 in.
Starting price: € 700 | Estimate : € 800 - 1.200 | Sold for : € 2.400
GIO PONTI 1891-1979
Disegni teatrali
Group of ten drawings of different sizes, half of them also higtened in watercolor, all referred to the production of theatrical works of the Forties and Fifties.
Starting price: € 1.500 | Estimate : € 1.500 - 2.000 | Sold for : € 2.800
Red and yellow ceramic produced by Domenico Minganti, inscription ‘Imola, Made in Italy’ on the bottom.
13.58 x 5.24 in.
Bibliografia/Literature
AA.VV., Gio Ponti alla Cooperativa Ceramica d’Imola, Imola, 1993, p. 45 e in copertina.
AA.VV., Gio Ponti alla Cooperativa
Starting price: € 2.000 | Estimate : € 2.000 - 3.000 | Sold for : € 2.000
Wooden, with two shelves, the top in tempered glass. Defects.
18.31 x 37.80 x 17.72 in.
Starting price: € 1.600 | Estimate : € 1.600 - 2.000 | Sold for : € 2.800
Papier-mache, signed ‘Del Monte- Faenza’ on the base, flaws and restorations. The sculpture is accompanied by an indian ink on paper drawing depicting a hand with flowers.
7.87 in.
Starting price: € 800 | Estimate : € 800 - 1.200 | Sold for : € 1.300
Silver plated metal.
12.99 in.
Starting price: € 400 | Estimate : € 500 - 700 | Sold for : € 800
Papier-mache, flaws and restorations.
8.27 in.
Starting price: € 800 | Estimate : € 800 - 1.200 | Sold for : € 1.400
STUDIO PONTI E LANCIA
L’Ange Volant
Group of about 80 sheets with executive drawings in pencil and ink on shiny paper and some heliocopies on blue and white paper produced by the studio for the villa called L'ange volant that Ponti built in Garches near Paris with the collaboration of Emilio Lancia and
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Starting price: € 2.500 | Estimate : € 3.000 - 5.000 | Sold for : € 2.500
GIO PONTI 1891-1979
Cinque disegni
Nice group of pencil drawings on paper of which one with different boxes numbered 7 to 11, and another oblong entitled "the Ministry" with annotation in pen that reads: "make a long picture".
Starting price: € 500 | Estimate : € 500 - 700 | Sold for : € 2.800
GIO PONTI 1891-1979
Disegni
Group of eight pencil drawings including some produced for Paolo De Poli, and two for Erwin Walter Burger. Different sizes.
The partnership between De Poli and Ponti began at the end of the 1930s and the Paduan artist created several works in enamel for the Milanese
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Starting price: € 600 | Estimate : € 600 - 800 | Sold for : € 3.000
GIO PONTI 1891-1979
Tribunale di Verona
Group of six pencil drawings on paper within passe-partout.
8.66 x 5.51 in.
Starting price: € 400 | Estimate : € 500 - 700 | Sold for : € 1.200
Pink glass in several layers of color, with lattimo glass finishes.
19.68 x 18.11 in.
Bibliografia/Literature
M. Barovier, C. Sonego, Paolo Venini e la sua fornace, Skira, Milano, 2016, p. 401.
Starting price: € 800 | Estimate : € 800 - 1.200 | Sold for : € 1.500
Ash wood, non-original fabric covering.
33.86 x 22.83 x 20.47 in.
Bibliografia/Literature
Domus, n. 270, maggio 1952, p. 24.
Starting price: € 2.000 | Estimate : € 2.000 - 3.000 | Sold for : € 3.200
Pencil and ink drawing on paper applied on cardboard, signed and dated on the front.
Starting price: € 200 | Estimate : € 200 - 300 | Sold for : € 600
GIO PONTI 1891-1979
Disegni degli ultimi anni
Nice group of ten pencil drawings by Ponti, mostly depicting female figures, from the Seventies.
Starting price: € 1.000 | Estimate : € 1.000 - 1.500 | Sold for : € 1.300
Pencil drawing on paper, along with two other drawings with similar female figures.
11.02 x 8.66 in.
Starting price: € 500 | Estimate : € 500 - 700 | Sold for : € 1.600
GIO PONTI 1891-1979
La spagnola
Partially glazed terracotta sculpture, from the house in via Dezza in Milan. Minor defects.
Height 11.81 in.
The beautiful sculpture appeared in a photographic service of 1957 on the famous self-illuminating furniture that Ponti had designed for his Milanese home.
Starting price: € 3.000 | Estimate : € 3.000 - 5.000
Pair of pencil drawings on paper depicting architectures, in double glass frame.
21.02 x 12.01 in.
Starting price: € 1.000 | Estimate : € 1.000 - 1.500 | Sold for : € 1.000
Ink and felt tip pen drawing on glossy paper mounted on cardboard, some tears and losses.
29.53 x 8.27 in.
Starting price: € 400 | Estimate : € 500 - 700 | Sold for : € 400
Pair of pencil drawings, a small one on paper and the other larger on glossy paper folded several times, with sketches for mirror decorations. Minor defects.
11.22 x 8.66 in.
Starting price: € 400 | Estimate : € 500 - 700 | Sold for : € 400
GIO PONTI 1891-1979
Quaderno di schizzi architettonici
Notepad of glossy paper containing twenty-one pencil and ink sketches by Ponti and his studio.
16.54 x 11.81 in.
Starting price: € 500 | Estimate : € 500 - 700 | Sold for : € 1.100
GIO PONTI 1891-1979
Villa sul mare
Group of four views in china on glossy paper of a project for a villa by the sea.
Starting price: € 300 | Estimate : € 300 - 500 | Sold for : € 2.000