Walter Furlan (Italian, 1931-2018) Omaggio to Picasso

Rare glass sculpture titled Omaggio to Picasso by Walter Furlan. It is triple signed with Walter Furlan & Omaggio to Picasso on the front, logo stamp on the side, and Murano on the bottom. Measures approx 14"T x 12"W x 12"D.

Walter Furlan was born in 1931 in Chioggia, a small town in the southern part of the lagoon of Venice. At an early age he goes to work in the V.A.M.S.A. glassworks, where he was apprenticed to Romano Tosi, a master-craftsman, better-known as "Mamaracio".
At the end of the Second World War, 1940-1945 Furlan goes to work in the glassworks of Gino Cenedese where he assists Alfredo Barbini and all the old craftsmen of the former V.A.M.S.A., amongst them "Mamaracio" and Gino Forte known as "Petà ".
At the Gino Cenedese glassworks, Furlan learns the technique of sculpting glass "a massello", which was later his favourite method.
After working on the production of Venetian candelabras, Furlan joins Albino Carrara (also from the V.A.M.S.A factory) at the Ferro & Lazzarini, where Maestro Ineo Fuga, specialist in making Antique Venetian candelabras, is working. Walter Furlan learns from him how to make almost all the models of the famous Venetian candelabras. Later Furlan succeeds Ineo Fuga in the candelabra department of the Ferro and Lazzarini glassworks.
Having become a master-craftsman while still young, Furlan has contacts with artists, and meets Fulvio Bianconi.
At the Ferro & Lazzarini factory, Furlan begins to collaborate with professor Ezio Rizzetto, and their mutual understanding produced artistic works which were exhibited at the early shows at Bevilacqua La Masa. Maestro Furlan has the opportunity to participate in other exhibitions with works of his own creation, obtaining recognition as a Designer.

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