Lot 154 , Gigi Chessa (Italian1898-1935) for Lenci, Vaso Temporale (Storm Vase), 1933, H. 26.2cm

Gigi Chessa (Italian1898-1935) for Lenci, 'Vaso Temporale' (Storm Vase), 1933, H. 26.2cm
Estimate £400-600

Luigi Maria Giorgio Chessa (1898–1935) was an Italian painter, architect, scenic designer, and ceramics painter born in Turin. By 1922, he began a long collaboration with the "Lenci" company of Turin producing ceramics.

In 1925, he helped design the sets for the presentation in Turin of L'Italiana in Algeri. In 1926, he traveled to New York to design sets for the Metropolitan Theater. The next year he was made professor of Scenography for the Scuola Superiore di Architettura of Turin. In 1927, he participated in the III Biennale di Monza, and at the Exposition d'Artistes Italiens Contemporaines in Geneva, and the Promotrice of Turin. In 1928, he exhibited at the Venice Biennale.
In 1929, he was one of the founders of the Gruppo dei Sei of Turin, a group of expressionist painters active mainly in Turin.

There are some occasional minor scratches to the glaze, there is a shallow splinter chip to the back edge of the rim with an associated unglazed patch and two smaller unglazed patches to the back of the rim which may well be in manufacture, the foot has a few small glaze flakes around the edge, otherwise in good condition with no restoration or cracks detected.


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Sold for £460