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A not-often-seen vintage eight piece tea set from Piero Fornasetti with hand-painted lithographic transfer decoration. The theme here is the iconography and ritual of tea-drinking. O...

Pair of beer steins by Piero Fornasetti from the 1950s, never reissued and relatively rare. Crest/rope/nautical/seafaring motifs. Pictured in Fornasetti’s Complete Universe book...

Rare bowl, great condition for age and use. And if you haven’t seen the documentary about Ravilious, Drawn to War, released in 2022, you should! There’s so much to this artist who...

Portman Gallery (Brooklyn, NY) is joyously offering this vintage Fornasetti hollow concave ceramic dog bowl, green glaze with gilding, in very, very go...

Portman Gallery is pleased to offer three rare gilt transfer plates from the “Foglie” series, which have not been produced in decades. A great gift for anyone who loves: Fall, Bota...

Portman Gallery is pleased to present a tapestry woven in Bastad at the storied weavery Märta Måås-Fjetterström, designed by Ann Marie Forsberg in the mid-twentieth century. “Bande...

This tapestry-woven flat weave may be among the pinnacles of achievement for Barbo Nilsson at Märta Måås-Fjetterström.  The colors are just as harmonious in 2022 as they were in 1955...

Portman Gallery is pleased to offer two Facett swivel chairs by R & E Bouroullec for Ligne Roset. This the chair equivalent of Phoebe Philo’s turn of the century work for Chloe. D...

Portman Gallery is pleased to offer a 1930s Swedish short knotted pile carpet by Martha Gahn. An exemplary Swedish Grace, as art deco was called ther...

This acid etched and engraved Tiffany sterling silver flask with full marks for 1882 might be the most fully articulated narrative in Tif...

Barbro Nilsson, easily Sweden’s greatest colorist of the Twentieth Century, shows us here that she can do subtlety as well as statement. This example, with a small amount of contrast...

Crocus tapestry by Marta Maas Fjetterstrom. A nice, and somewhat rare, size, and fully backed with linen and tabs for inserting a dowel rod. This design was made in many colorways, w...

"Bla Heden" (Blue Heath) was designed by Märta Måås-Fjetterström in 1931.   Acquired by the Crown Prince of Sweden and his Consort in the same year, it is one of the firm's most belo...

Alex Katz, black and white lithograph, 1984 Alex Katz (American, b. 1927), Portrait of Paul Taylor, pencil signed and numbered 18/100 lower left, titled lower right, slat framed und...

This vivid oil, watercolor and pencil on board by Ilonka Karasz is one of her 186 commissioned cover illustrations for the New Yorker, and the only one currently on the market. L...

“In order to use colour effectively it is necessary to recognise that colour deceives continually.” Josef Albers “We never really perceive what colour really is, as it physically is. This fact makes colour the most relative medium in art.” Josef Albers “The structures are irrational statements which illustrate the artist’s claim that the eye seeks, in endless exploration, to fathom and master the contradictions of reversed symmetry. One begins to study the structure at some point where isometric order is suggested. One finds evidence for the reading of the work, but when one tries to take in the whole structure as a unit, new evidence requires a drastic reorganization of the work’s implications. That which was above shifts to below, that which was negative becomes positive, that which was full becomes vacant, that which was in front has moved to the rear. Having found a balance, the eye’s testing finds the entire constellation shifting into its reverse.” Gerald Nordland, in his essay for the “White Embossings on Gray” catalogue For sale, one print from Albers’ late in life exploration of color and perception, the “White Embossings on Gray” Series. For this series, renowned California print...

“In order to use colour effectively it is necessary to recognise that colour deceives continually.” Josef Albers “We never really perceive what colour really is, as it physically is. This fact makes colour the most relative medium in art.” Josef Albers “The structures are irrational statements which illustrate the artist’s claim that the eye seeks, in endless exploration, to fathom and master the contradictions of reversed symmetry. One begins to study the structure at some point where isometric order is suggested. One finds evidence for the reading of the work, but when one tries to take in the whole structure as a unit, new evidence requires a drastic reorganization of the work’s implications. That which was above shifts to below, that which was negative becomes positive, that which was full becomes vacant, that which was in front has moved to the rear. Having found a balance, the eye’s testing...

Portman Gallery offers: Mattia Bonetti Unique “Jelly” Bedroom Console Table circa 2009 metallic painted oak, plexiglas monogrammed MB 19 1/4 x 29 1/8 x 10 3/8 in. (48.9 x 74 x 26.3 cm) If possible, I would like to hand deliver this item (free). Please let me know in your inquiry where you are located. Condition: Overall in excellent condition. The painted wood base displays a vibrant green and silver surface with a few very minor abrasions to the edges, consistent with gentle use and not visually distracting. The plexiglas tabletop presents with very faint scattered surface scratches consistent with gentle use. Provenance: Francis Sultana, London Sotheby’s, New York, 2021 ‘‘Mattia Bonetti’s artistic creativity is limitless. He has the skill and the imagination to create a range of artistic worlds; from the most meticulous and exact, to the most bizarre and outlandish, his works are always so diverse and yet always retain an element of his own distinctive style.’’ Jacques Granges, Interior Designer. Mattia Bonetti (born 1952) is a Paris-based artist and designer. His work has been called whimsical, surreal and unique. Consistently merging the boundaries between art and design, Bonetti, who was born in Lugano, Switzerland, initially studied textile design at the Centro Scolastico per l’Industria Artistica. Moving to Paris in 1972, Bonetti initially worked within his chosen field of textile design, but then developed a career as a stylist and photographer. Working in black and white film, Bonetti would shoot miniature interiors that he had made by hand, which in turn led to his love of furniture. Bonetti’s work has always begun with a free-hand sketch, which is then fabricated in materials including patinated bronze, gilding, acrylic, wood, rock crystal, marble, glass and gemstones. In the 1970s Bonetti met the designer Elizabeth Garouste, and their partnership began with the interior décor of the famous Parisian nightclub Le Palace and restaurant Le Privilege. Employing a neo-Baroque language, blended with prehistoric and primitive touches, Bonetti’s terracotta...

“I have thus dressed ceramics, furniture, and things in signs, and in that way I have placed a message in every work — a small story that is sometimes ironic, obviously wordless, but...

Portman is pleased to offer this rare Line Vautrin “performing” brooch, extra-large for her oeuvre. In fact after looking at these for years, I have not seen such a large narrative ...

Portman Gallery is pleased to offer a Line Vautrin compact/poudrier in bronze. At first I thought that the lack of gilt must have been some kind ...

It seems that we are in a new age for the brooch, and Portman Gallery is pleased to offer this truly museum-quality example by Margaret de Patta from her most important period. I wou...

Portman Gallery (Brooklyn, NY) is proud to offer this bracelet by Claude Lalanne in gilt silver, a somewhat rare material in her jewelry oeuvre, number 11 from the edition of only 50...

Portman Gallery is proud to offer this unique, fully documented Louise Nevelson work, a small sculpture pendant necklace of latex-painted wood, highlig...