Thank you for the interest in this item. The mobile description does not show the full text or all of the photographs I have included in this listing. This item has a full description and up to 24 supersized enlargeable photographs showing detailed views of the item and it's condition. Please click on the Item Description tab below for complete information. Thank you for your interest in this item Guerrino Tramonti Faenza Mid Century Modern Italian Art Pottery Ceramic Pitcher Click images to enlarge Description We offer FREE Shipping on this item to a US Street address in the contiguous 48 US States (not including Alaska, Hawaii or APO, PO Boxes or USA Protectorates). ______________________ DESCRIPTION: This is a nice decorative original vintage signed Guerrino Tramonti Faenza ceramic art pottery handled pitcher. The item is made of pottery with a multicolored glaze with crystalline glazed elements (see photos). The pitcher is made in the Modernist style. The pitcher is signed on the underside of the base by the artist Guerrino Tramonti: Tramonti Faenza (see photos). The item is from Faenza, Italy, and it is Italian in origin. There is a museum in the town that features this artist's works. The bowl measures in total about 17 inches high, and it is about 9 inches wide. The pitcher has some crazing cracks to the glazed finish (see photos and / or written description for the condition of this item). A beautiful original vintage Guerrino Tramonti of Faenza Italian art pottery signed handled pitcher to add to your collection. Here is some information about this artist: Italian artist Guerrino Tramonti (1915?1992) Celebrated as one of the most important Italian artist of the 20th century, Guerrino Tramonti was a a ceramicists, a sculptor and a painter. This retrospective exhibition displays more than 60 ceramics made between 1930 and 1970, the highest peak of Tramonti?s artistic production. The terracotta sculptures, ceramics, and stoneware on display in Urbino show the strong personality of a man who always interpreted his time with a powerful, Mediterranean modernity. He won his first prize at sixteen and since then he never stopped exploring new trends and new techniques, with enthusiasm and talent. Born in Faenza in 1915, Guerrino Tramonti moved to Rome in the Forties. He had already won many prizes with his works, this allowing him to be immediately welcomed in the artistic environment of the capital. Italian Ceramics - Bronze head by artist Guerrino Tramonti (1944) - Photo credits: www.tramontiguerrino.itBetween the Thirties and the Forties he was influenced by Arturo Martini and the ?archeological? nostalgia, especially for Etruscan art. After World War II he observed the work of Riccardo Gatti and Pietro Melandri in Faenza, who were very much into lusterware. He soon gave his own interpretation of this sophisticated technique, while creating also some outstanding majolicas covered in thick glazes. His primitive designs and shapes and his simple color palette ? yellow, red, white and pale blue ? were certainly a tribute to Guido Gambone, whom he considered to be the best ceramicist of his century. In the Fifties he was appointed Director of the Art Institute in Castelli, Abruzzo. Italian Ceramics - Panel by artist Guerrino Tramonti (1952) - Photo credits: www.tramontiguerrino.itHere he started experimenting with his students and fellow artists and came up with ?The third ceiling of San Donato? a 100 square meter large ceiling made of 265 large ceramic tiles, a modern tribute to the ?ceramic Sistine Chapel? of the little chuch of San Donato in Castelli. His decorative disks also belong to this artistic phase. He complemented his taste for archaism, with the lessons of Picasso, Braque and Catalan medieval painting, as well described by Prof. G.C. Bojani, curator of the exhibition and author of the catalogue. Tramonti canceled the perspective from his circular shapes and chose to break the unity of the images thru the use of crackle finishes, technical initiatives that became his aesthetic signature. Italian Ceramics - Bowl by artist Guerrino Tramonti (1968) - Photo credits: www.tramontiguerrino.itHis last ceramics are dominated by Far Eastern influences. China, Japan and Korea offered their cultural hints, that Tramonti filtered with the formal purism that was very popular in the Sixties and Seventies. He worked very much with stoneware, that better fit his need to ?sculpt? his ideas. Tramonti stopped making pottery at the end of the Seventies because he thought that he ?couldn?t do better than that?. He painted instead, changing the medium, but certainly not his power of expression. A small collection of his paintings on display at the exhibition offers a positive comparison between the different and complementary mediums used by this great artist. LOCATION: HME ___________________________ This item ships for FREE in the USA to a street address in the contiguous 48 United States only (NO PO Boxes, No Alaska and No Hawaii for Free Shipping). I can ship to these locations, but you must contact me to determine the charge for shipping. This listing includes FREE USA economy shipping from my choice of shippers. International shipping is available to most countries on most of our items. ____________________________ Please contact me for the costs to upgrade the shipping speed or carrier used and/or the costs of adding premium packing materials or faster delivery options to your package before I ship the item. ____________________________ I sell vintage, decorative and antique items. All the items I sell will have some wear from age, use and / or handling over time. 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