LOT DETAILS

Materials:

anodised aluminium, painted steel, plastic, glass

Size Notes:

approximately

Edition:

14 of 20

Description:

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Markings:

base with applied plaque 'MOLOCH, RIDISEGNO DI GAETANO PESCE, PRODUZIONE-BRACCIODIFERRO, PRIMO CENTINAIO, ESAMPLERE N.014'

Exhibited:

Other examples of this design shown Gaetano Pesce, the Future is Perhaps Past, 8 January - 9 March 1975, Musee des Arts Decoratifs, Paris; and Pop Art Design, 22 October 2012 - 9 February 2013, London, Barbican Art Gallery.

Literature:

This work illustrated: C. Fiell, P. Fiell (eds.), 1000 Lights, 1960-Present, vol. 2, Cologne 2005, p. 225. Other examples of this model illustrated: Domus, no. 525, September 1972, p. 38. E. Ambasz (ed.), Italy: The New Domestic Landscape: Achievements and Problems of Italian Design, exh. cat., New York, The Museum of Modern Art, 1972, p. 97. G. Gramigna, Repertorio 1950-1980: immagini e contributi per una storia dell'arredo italiano, Milan 1985, p. 357. F. Vanlaethem, Gaetano Pesce: Architecture, Design, Art, New York 1989, p. 28.

Provenance:

Galerie Mourmans, Maastricht. Anon. sale, Christie's New York, 16 May 2000, lot 19. Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.