Mearini Fine Art

Mearini Fine Art - A surprising Fausto Melotti

For this new edition of BRAFA, Mearini Fine Art (booth 81) is pleased to present an exquisite selection of medieval Italian marble and wooden sculptures dating from the 13th to the 16th century.

Alongside these historic works, an exceptional glazed ceramic frame by Fausto Melotti, one of the foremost Italian sculptors of the 20th century will be showcased. This unique work was specially commissioned from Melotti by the family of its last owner, a distinguished Lombard collector. Created around the mid-20th century, the frame stands as a masterpiece of Italian modern art and a superb expression of Melotti’s refined mastery of ceramics - a medium to which he devoted himself with remarkable success from the postwar years through the 1960s.

The large frame (80 x 123 cm) is polychrome, painted in brilliant shades of red, blue, and white, and defined by an elegant handkerchief-like decorative motif and an unusual, highly sophisticated form. One of a kind, it exemplifies the excellence of Italian craftsmanship in the 20th century.

Fausto Melotti is universally regarded as a central figure in the renewal of Italian art. Sculptor, painter, designer, poet, and an exceptionally refined ceramist, he was able to synthesize classical tradition with the language of the European avant-gardes, working in close dialogue with figures such as Lucio Fontana and Gio Ponti. From 1943 until the early 1960s, he devoted himself almost exclusively to ceramics, achieving extraordinary delicacy and intellectual rigor.

This work is officially archived at the Fausto Melotti Foundation in Milan.
 

BRAFA 2026 - Mearini Fine Art - Highlight Fausto Melotti