Bruno Gambone, Large Glazed Stoneware Bowl (1970s)

Description This is a beautiful and really functional piece to place in your entryway on a chest or on your coffee table.  The glaze has an iridescent quality to it that is really gorgeous. Details Glazed stoneware Signed on bottom 21" across (26" including handles), 4" tall Excellent condition About the Artist Bruno Gambone was born in Vietri sul Mare in 1936. In the early 1950s, when he was a teenager, he dedicated himself to ceramics, gaining experience in the Florence workshop of his father, Guido Gambone, one of the greatest Italian ceramists of the 20th century. Toward the end of the 1950s, he went on to work in Andrea d’Arienzo’s ceramic factory in Florence. Afterwards, he experimented with fabrics and painting on canvas, and presented his first solo painting exhibition at Galleria La Strozzina in Pallazo Strozzi in 1959. In the early 1960s Bruno, like many of his generation, could not resist the call of New York.  During his stint in the city he met artists such as Robert Ra