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Gold and quartz pendant - 1960s, signed FRANCO CANNILLA (1911- 1984)

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Estimations: 5 000 - 7 000 EUR
18k yellow gold and citrine quartz.
Signed "CANNILLA" and hallmarked "750" and "22 Roma".
The artist's jewellery production can be placed within the research strand of artist's jewellery developed in Italy especially after the Second World War, thanks to a number of jewellers including Mario Masenza (Rome, 1913-1985) and his brothers Danilo (Rome, 1934-1995) and Massimo Fumanti (Rome, 1936) in Rome and Giancarlo Montebello (Milan, 1941) in Milan.
In post-World War II Rome, Masenza opened the doors of his jewellery shop in Via del Corso to the artists of the time, who could translate their poetics into formal declinations of rare executive prestige. Mazenza conceived the idea, completely unprecedented for the Italian panorama, of bringing together the world of jewellery with that of art, thus involving contemporary artists; in particular, he used Dederico Gherardi's goldsmith's workshop to make the jewellery of sculptors such as Franco Cannilla.
An artist born in Caltagirone on 13 February 1911, he died in Rome at the end of 1984, he attended the local ceramics school; his language approached a progressive abstraction of the plastic form, concretised in the 1950s in a search for proportional harmony through the use of the module, for the creation of concrete art objects in relation also to new industrial materials.
Cannilla's goldsmith production began in the late 1940s and saw both abstract motifs and more concrete and symbolic themes represented, such as figurative jewellery with biblical repertoire and female figures. In the 1960s, he experimented with an abstract yet tense language, which in the jewellery is translated into developments and interweaving of filaments sprinkled with gems and diamonds.
In the pendant, the artist transfers the purity and geometric rigour of his artistic productions of the late 1960s, at that time an exponent of the Neo-Concretism trend, into gold.
The pendant is conceived through horizontal and vertical lines that intersect each other, some of which are highlighted at the ends with coloured stones, creating harmony and rhythm to the composition. At the centre, the fulcrum of the composition, is set a large rectangular quartz.
Item condition grading: ***** excellent.
Accompanied by Giorgio Tempesti's expertise.
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AUCTION 244 - JEWELLERY, SILVER, WATCHES, IVORIES AND CABINET DE CURIOSITÉS
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06 December 2022 CET/Rome
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2 400 EUR
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5 000 - 7 000 EUR
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AUCTION 244 - JEWELLERY, SILVER, WATCHES, IVORIES AND CABINET DE CURIOSITÉS
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