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BRUNO MARTINAZZI: A LIMITED EDITION GOLD 'APPLE SLICE' RING, 1971 image 1

BRUNO MARTINAZZI: A LIMITED EDITION GOLD 'APPLE SLICE' RING, 1971 image 2

BRUNO MARTINAZZI: A LIMITED EDITION GOLD 'APPLE SLICE' RING, 1971 image 3

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BRUNO MARTINAZZI: A LIMITED EDITION GOLD 'APPLE SLICE' RING, 1971

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2 December 2021, 11:00 GMT

London, New Bond Street

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BRUNO MARTINAZZI: A LIMITED EDITION GOLD 'APPLE SLICE' RING, 1971

The apple slices in brushed 18 carat bicoloured gold, signed Martinazzi, numbered 3/6, maker's mark R&Co, London hallmark, ring size O

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This ring design was illustrated in a fashion feature for the 8th June 1972 edition of Country Life, as supplied by River, 17/18 Old Bond Street, London. Another 'Apple Slice' ring from this limited edition, numbered 2/6, sold at Bonhams, Knightsbridge on 14th May 2014, lot 9. For similar pieces, see Bernabei, Robert, 'Contemporary Jewellers', Berg, Oxford & New York, 2011, chapter 13.

The Italian artist, Bruno Martinazzi (1923-2018) studied music and chemistry in his native Turin. In 1951, he left the chemical industry to work as a goldsmith's apprentice to the Mussa brothers, while also attending night school at the Scuola Orafi Girardi. His art and sculpture studies then took him to Florence and Rome, where he held his first one man show of enamelled copper and silver reliefs in 1954. In 1960, Martinazzi participated in an exhibition of Italian jewellery at the Neiman-Marcus store in Dallas, Texas, of which Arnaldo and Gio Pomodoro were two of the organisers. The following year he received an award for his submissions to the International Exhibition of Modern Jewellery at the Goldsmiths Hall in London. In 1967, he completed his Marce della Pace in the form of a series of bracelets and brooches composed of abstract figures walking in step or standing in a crowd as a protest against the Vietnam War.

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