Guerrino Tramonti Faenza Mid Century Modern Italian Art Pottery Ceramic Bowl

Guerrino Tramonti Faenza Mid Century Modern Italian Art Pottery Ceramic Bowl. This is a nice decorative original vintage signed Guerrino Tramonti Faenza ceramic art pottery bowl. The item is made of pottery with a multicolored glaze with crystalline glazed elements (see photos). The bowl is made in the Modernist style. The bowl 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 4.75 inches high, and it is about 10.75 inches wide. The bowl 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 bowl to add to your collection.

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. 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. 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. Bojani, curator of the exhibition and author of the catalogue.

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. I sell vintage, decorative and antique items. I try to take many photographs of the items that I sell. All the items that we sell are in as is as found estate condition.

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