Extremely RARE Painting by GIÒ PONTI 'Donna Ammantata' ca.1944
View Similar Items
Extremely RARE Painting by GIÒ PONTI 'Donna Ammantata' ca.1944
About the Item
- Creator:Gio Ponti (Artist)
- Dimensions:Height: 12.41 in (31.5 cm)Width: 12.41 in (31.5 cm)
- Style:Art Deco (Of the Period)
- Materials and Techniques:
- Place of Origin:
- Period:
- Date of Manufacture:ca.1944
- Condition:Excellent. In excellent condition. The original frame has recently been restored to it's original condition. See images.
- Seller Location:Miami, FL
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU9471864187
Gio Ponti
An architect, furniture and industrial designer and editor, Gio Ponti was arguably the most influential figure in 20th-century Italian modernism.
Ponti (1891–1979) designed thousands of furnishings and products — from cabinets, lamps and chairs to ceramics and coffeemakers — and his buildings, including the brawny Pirelli Tower (1956) in his native Milan, and the castle-like Denver Art Museum (1971), were erected in 14 countries. Through Domus, the magazine he founded in 1928, Ponti brought attention to virtually every significant movement and creator in the spheres of modern art and design.
The questing intelligence Ponti brought to Domus is reflected in his work: as protean as he was prolific, Ponti’s style can’t be pegged to a specific genre. In the 1920s, as artistic director for the Tuscan porcelain maker Richard Ginori, he fused old and new; his ceramic forms were modern, but decorated with motifs from Roman antiquity. In pre-war Italy, modernist design was encouraged, and after the conflict, Ponti — along with designers such as Carlo Mollino, Franco Albini, Marco Zanuso — found a receptive audience for their novel, idiosyncratic work. Ponti’s typical furniture forms from the period, such as the wedge-shaped Distex chair, are simple, gently angular, and colorful; equally elegant and functional. In the 1960s and ’70s, Ponti’s style evolved again as he explored biomorphic shapes, and embraced the expressive, experimental designs of Ettore Sottsass Jr., Joe Colombo and others.
His signature furniture piece — the one by which he is represented in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art in New York, Germany’s Vitra Design Museum and elsewhere — is the sleek Superleggera chair, produced by Cassina starting in 1957. (The name translates as “superlightweight” — advertisements featured a model lifting it with one finger.) Ponti had a playful side, best shown in a collaboration he began in the late 1940s with the graphic artist Piero Fornasetti. Ponti furnishings were decorated with bright finishes and Fornasetti's whimsical lithographic transfer prints of things such as butterflies, birds or flowers; the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts possesses a 1950 secretary from their Architetturra series, which feature case pieces covered in images of building interiors and facades. The grandest project Ponti and Fornasetti undertook, however, lies on the floor of the Atlantic Ocean: the interiors of the luxury liner Andrea Doria, which sank in 1956.
Widely praised retrospectives at the Queens Museum of Art in 2001 and at the Design Museum London in 2002 sparked a renewed interest in Ponti among modern design aficionados. (Marco Romanelli’s monograph written for the London show, offers a fine overview of Ponti’s work.) Today, a wide array of Ponti’s designs are snapped up by savvy collectors who want to give their homes a touch of Italian panache and effortless chic.
Find a range of Gio Ponti furniture on 1stDibs.
- Gio Ponti Painting "Donna Con Cappellino"By Gio PontiLocated in New York, NYGio Ponti painting "Donna Con Cappellino" 1972, Italy. A colorful portrayal by Gio Ponti. Acrylic on Prespex (Plexiglas) singed by Gio Ponti on the front, while the paint work is rev...Category
Vintage 1970s Italian Paintings
MaterialsAcrylic, Plexiglass
- Gio Ponti Painting "I Gemelli"By Gio PontiLocated in New York, NYGio Ponti painting "I Gemelli", 1970, Italy. A colorful portrayal by Gio Ponti. Acrylic on Prespex (Plexiglas) singed by Gio Ponti on the front, while the paint work is reversed pain...Category
Vintage 1970s Italian Paintings
MaterialsAcrylic, Plexiglass
- Monumental 60" Oil Painting! Mid Century Modern Abstract! Orange Blue Gio PontiBy Gio PontiLocated in Peoria, AZMagnificent! MID CENTURY ABSTRACT ORIGINAL OIL PAINTING STUNNING ORANGE & BLUE PALETTE! After Gio Ponti Offered is an absolutely superb original oil painting of huge proportion...Category
Mid-20th Century Unknown Mid-Century Modern Paintings
MaterialsCanvas, Paint
- Large Original Drawing by Gio Ponti for Touring Carrozzeria Milan, 1952By Gio PontiLocated in Dronten, NLImportant drawing by Gio Ponti of the Diamante line for Touring Carrozzeria Milan, documented in "Gio Ponti" "L'Arte si innamora dell'industria" by Ugo La Pietra, page 254-255. Ponti...Category
Vintage 1950s Italian Modern Drawings
MaterialsPaper
- Large Gio Ponti Study for Window at Shui-Hing Department Store, Singapore, 1978By Gio PontiLocated in Kansas City, MOReverse hand-painted Plexiglass in a light-box frame five inches deep. 102.5 inches tall and 48 inches wide. Sold with a certificate of expertise from the Gio Ponti Archives. Provenance: Collection of the artist Collection of Rossella Colombari...Category
Vintage 1970s Italian Mid-Century Modern Paintings
MaterialsPlexiglass, Wood
- "Walking the Cows" Important Social Realist Painting by Sternberg, 1944By Charlotte Joan SternbergLocated in Philadelphia, PAA cross between Grant Wood and Paul Cadmus, this remarkable American regional scene painting depicts a young man in a white t-shirt walking a group of cows down a country lane with p...Category
Vintage 1940s American Art Deco Paintings
MaterialsPaint
Recently Viewed
View AllRead More
Barnaba Fornasetti’s Hallucinatory House Has His Father’s Spirit
Behind a nondescript facade in northeastern Milan is the magical residence of Barnaba Fornasetti. It's a shrine to the style developed by his design-legend father, which still defies categorization.
Billy Cotton Layers His Interiors with Lived-In Comfort
The Brooklyn-based designer is adept at styles ranging from austere to over-the-top, espousing an architectural, detail-oriented approach also evident in his line of furniture and lighting.