Gaetano Pesce
(1939 - present)

Throughout the years Los Angeles Modern Auctions (LAMA) has offered various works by Gaetano Pesce in many important modern auctions. It is therefore appropriate that LAMA’s Director, Peter Loughrey, co-curated and co-sponsored Gaetano Pesce’s first solo West Coast exhibition, “Gaetano Pesce: Pieces from a Larger Puzzle” at the Italian Cultural Institute (IIC). The exhibit showcased a variety of objects including prototypes, production models, video and audio, all of which span across Pesce’s career as a world-renowned artist, architect, and designer. This exhibit is the result of Peter’s enthusiasm for great Italian design, which has been the driving force in bringing together an excellent survey of Pesce’s works to the Los Angeles community.
The exhibit ran from July 8 – August 31, 2010 at the Italian Cultural Institute.

A full-color exhibition catalogue is available for purchase and includes essays by: Gillo Dorfles, noted Italian art critic, Cindi Strauss, Curator of Modern and Contemporary Decorative Arts and Design The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, and Vittorio Sgarbi, curator and Italian art critic.
Exhibition catalogues are available for purchase for $10 (plus shipping). Click here to order.
To browse e-catalogue click here.
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- Pompitu vase, 1996
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- Lot 92
- Gaetano Pesce
- Table lamp (From the Open Sky series)
- designed 1995
- Fish Design
- Polyurethane resin
- 26.75″ x 12″ x 10″
- Provenance: Property from an Important West Coast Collection
- December 16, 2012 Auction
- Estimate: $2,500 – 3,500
- Realized: $2,500
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- Lot 220
- Gaetano Pesce
- Beauborg Prototype Bookshelves (3)
- Studio
- executed 1981
- Polyurethane foam
- Pair of shelves 53.5″ x 82.5″ x 21″; Single shelf 74″ x 50.5″ x 21″
- May 6, 2012 Auction
- Estimate $10,000 – $15,000
- Realized $15,000
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- Lot 219
- Gaetano Pesce
- Food
- Custom designed for the TBWA/Chiat Day offices, New York
- 1991
- Resin with steel frame
- 83.5″ x 34″ x 8″
- Provenance: TBWA/Chiat Day
- May 6, 2012 Auction
- Estimate $3,000 – $5,000
- Realized $3,750
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- Lot 237
- Gaetano Pesce
- Sansome I table
- 1980
- Poured, melted and cast polyurethane
- Unique
- Custom
- Exhibited: “Gaetano Pesce: Pieces from a Larger Puzzle”, Italian Cultural Institute, July – August 2010
- December 11, 2011 Auction
- Estimate $30,000-50,000
- Realized $37,500
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- Lot 239
- Gaetano Pesce
- Cars
- 1991
- Resin with steel frame and Matchbox cars
- Custom designed for the TBWA/Chiat Day offices, New York
- 86″ x 34″ x 7″
- Provenance: TBWA/Chiat Day
- Exhibited: “Gaetano Pesce: Pieces from a Larger Puzzle”, Italian Cultural Institute, July – August 2010
- December 11, 2011 Auction
- Estimate $5,000-7,000
- Realized $2,500
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- Lot 53
- Gaetano Pesce
- Lemonade
- Custom door designed for the TBWA/Chiat Day offices, New York, 1991
- Resin and steel
- 86”h x 34” x 8”d
- October 17, 2010 Auction
- $3,000-5,000
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- CIRVA Bowl, 1992
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- “UP5” & “UP6”, “Donna” Chair
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- I Feltri Prototype Chair, 1985
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- Tutti Frutti Bowl, 1996