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There's more to art than meets the eye. Here is a selection of lots from past Saturday@Phillips sales. See what the experts say and then add your own pop-up knowledge or comments. Move your cursor over the image to reveal pop-up information. saturday@phillips.com
- Art expert:
"Mistakes are what I like best," said Bianconi.
- Art expert:
When he was 16 years old Bianconi spent a year working as an apprentice decorator in the Murano furnaces, an experience which proved crucial to his artistic career.
- Art expert:
Fulvio Bianconi was born in Padua, Italy in August 1915, and died in Milan in May 1996.
- Art expert:
Bianconi was the first person to depict the human form in glass, with his Venetian Carnivale and Commedia dell' Arte characters.
- Art expert:
"Mistakes are what I like best," said Bianconi.
- Art expert:
He came back to Murano in 1947 to design a series of perfume bottles, and so began his love of glass.
- Pair of 'Canne' hurricane lamps
- Fulvio Bianconi
- December 2 2006
- $3500 to $4500
- $3000
