Gaetano Pesce
Moloch Floor Lamp

Moloch Floor Lamp

© 1971 Gaetano Pesce

Moloch Floor Lamp
Moloch Floor Lamp
DesignerItalian, 1939–2024
ManufacturerItalian, active 1971–1975
CultureItalian
Titles
  • Moloch Floor Lamp
Date1971
MediumAnodized aluminum, painted aluminum, steel, and bulb
DimensionsOverall: 90 1/2 × 122 3/4 × 33 3/4 in. (229.9 × 311.8 × 85.7 cm)
Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by the Caroline Wiess Law Accessions Endowment Fund
Object number2020.38
Not on view

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Department
Decorative Arts, Craft, and Design
Object Type
ProvenanceCasa Carenza, Padua, Italy, 1971; [Capitolium Art Auctions, Brescia, Italy, November 18, 2018, Lot 174]; [Friedman Benda, New York]; purchased by MFAH, 2020.
Exhibition History"Gaetano Pesce: Age of Contaminations," Friedman Benda Gallery, New York, October 24–December 14, 2019.

"Electrifying Design: A Century of Lighting," Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, February 27–May 16, 2021; High Museum of Art, Atlanta, July 2–September 21, 2021.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
Engraved above base: MOLOCH / RIDISEGNO DI GAETANO PESCE / PRODUZIONE-BRACCIODIFERRO- / PRIMO CENTINAIO / ESEMPLARE N.006
Catalogue raisonnéN/A

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