Carlo Mollino
An Important And Unique Dining Table
Found at
Sothebys,
New York
Contemporary Art Evening Auction, Lot 16
29. Oct - 29. Oct 2020
Contemporary Art Evening Auction, Lot 16
29. Oct - 29. Oct 2020
Estimate: XX.XXX
Price realised: XX.XXX
Price realised: XX.XXX
Description
Property from the Brooklyn Museum, 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 the library of the Museo Casa Mollino, Turin, as number CM 298.
Gift of the Italian government to the Brooklyn Museum, 1954
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 the library of the Museo Casa Mollino, Turin, as number CM 298.
Gift of the Italian government to the Brooklyn Museum, 1954
A top price for Carlo Mollino
This artwork by Carlo Mollino achieved an unexpectedly high price at Sothebys in New York in October 2020. In the Contemporary Art Evening Auction auction, the work An Important And Unique Dining Table sold for USD 6,181,350.00 (€ 5,307,246.50) - well above the upper estimate of USD 3,000,000.00. This high result makes An Important And Unique Dining Table the most expensive artwork by Carlo Mollino that we have observed at auctions so far.
Ein Spitzenpreis für Carlo Mollino
Dieses Kunstwerk von Carlo Mollino erzielte im Oktober 2020 bei Sothebys in New York einen unerwartet hohen Preis. In der Auktion Contemporary Art Evening Auction wurde die Arbeit An Important And Unique Dining Table für USD 6.181.350,00 (€ 5.307.246,50) versteigert – und damit weit über dem oberen Schätzpreis von USD 3.000.000,00. Dieses hohe Ergebnis macht An Important And Unique Dining Table zu dem teuersten Kunstwerk von Carlo Mollino, das wir bisher bei Auktionen beobachtet haben.
Carlo Mollino - Auction history
