Key facts

Product:
Città Che Si Rispecchia four-panel screen
Manufacturer:
Sotheby´s
Architonic ID:
4109413
Launched:
1950
Country:
United Kingdom
Category:
Furnishings

Product description

Lithographic transfer-print on lacquered wood and brass
78 5/8 x 19 5/8  x 1 1/8  in. (199.7 x 49.8 x 2.8 cm) for each panel
The reverse decorated with "Fogliame" pattern (shown on left)

Provenance:
Collection of the artist
Thence by descent
Christie's Los Angeles, Important Design, The Life of Fornasetti, May 16, 1998, lot 39
Acquired from the above by the present owner

Literature:
Patrick Mauries, Fornasetti:  Designer of Dreams, exh. cat., Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 1991, p. 115
Barnaba Fornasetti, Fornasetti: The Complete Universe, New York, 2010, p. 430, fig. 32