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Auction Results, Design
Marion Maneker0April 01, 2013

Wright Spring Modern Design = $2m

Harry Bertoia, Untitled (Cloud) ($30-40k) $88.9kWright held its Modern Design auction last week and sold $2m worth of Charles and Ray Eames, George Nakashima, Paul Evans and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe works with 85% of the lots finding buyers. An untitled sculpture (Cloud) by Harry Bertoia doubled its high estimate by selling for $88,900. A Spacelander bicycle designed by Benjamin Bowden (Lot 259) achieved $35,000, five times its high estimate. Other well-sold designs include:

  • Lot 109 – Philip Johnson and Richard Kelly, floor lamp from the Pavilion House, Bristol. Estimate: $10,000-15,000. Result: $42,500
  • Lot 147 – Florence Knoll, Executive Office cabinet. Estimate: $3,000-5,000. Result: $17,500.
  • Lot 150 – Marianne Richter, Josegin carpet. Estimate: $5,000-7,000. Result: $20,000.
  • Lot 151 – Martin Olsen, lounge chair. Estimate: $5,000-7,000. Result: $32,500.
  • Lot 254 – Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Barcelona chair blueprint. Estimate: $2,000-3,000. Result: $10,000.
  • Lot 256 – Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Barcelona daybed. Estimate: $3,000-5,000. Result: $27,500.
  •  Lot 258: James Waring Carpenter, Bullet magazine rack. Estimate: $1,500-2,000. Result: $13,750.

More can be seen at www.wright20.com.

 

Design
Marion Maneker0April 06, 2011

Deco Doesn't Dance in Paris

The collection of 20th Century furniture assembled over a ten-year period by Laurent Negro was sold at a loss for the market-minded collector. One reason offered by observers is that Negro had become the top end of the market during that period leaving no one to sell on to in a large sale such as this:

The Christie’s International three-day sale in Paris of the contents of the Chateau de Gourdon museum accumulated by Laurent Negro raised 42.4 million euros ($60 million) with fees. Demand was selective. The total at hammer prices was lower than the estimated 40 million euros to 60 million euros [...]

Negro lost money on a number of pieces. He paid $386,500 for Jan and Joel Martel’s 1931 aluminum Art Deco sculpture of an express train, “Locomotive en marche,” at Sotheby’s (BID),New York, in 2008. It sold for a hammer price of 200,000 euros. A 1927 Gustave Miklos bronze sculpture, “Jeune Fille,” fetched 1.15 million euros without fees. This had been bought at a French auction in June 2005 for 1.6 million euros. The purchase price of the design collection had been higher than the low estimate, Jonathan Rendell, Christie’s New York- based deputy chairman, said in an interview before the event.

‘World’s Best’ Modern Design Sale Fetches $60 Million in Paris (Bloomberg)

 

 

Auction Results, Design
Marion Maneker0March 13, 2011

Christie's 20th C Design = $1.43m

Auction Results, Design
Marion Maneker0March 10, 2011

Sotheby's 20th C Design = $3.55m

Auction Results, Design
Marion Maneker0March 08, 2011

LA Modern Palevsky Sale = $2.25m

Los Angeles Modern Auctions pulled in its highest gross on Sunday, March 6 when auction sales totalled $2,256,323.

Peter Loughrey, Director, said “Once again, our results prove that you do not have to send Modern Art to New York or London to get the top price.”

Items consigned by Max Palevsky’s estate brought $333,813. An Ettore Sottsass a marble console (Lot 55 est. $10,000 – 15,000) $75,000; a sevres porcelain vase (Lot 70 est. $1,000 – 1,500) brought $31,250; and a pair of marble end tables (Lot 84 and 85 est. $2,400 – 3,000) together sold for $25,000.

A sculpture by Reg Butler (Lot 92 est. $20,000 – 30,000) sold for $125,000, setting a record for the artist.

The Collection of James Byrnes, the first curator of Modern Art at LACMA in the mid 1940s, had 50 lots bringing $171,313.  Highlights included a rare Harry Bertoia brooch (Lot 220 est. $5,000 – 7,000) that sold for $22,000; an original Calder work on paper (Lot 25 est. $15,000 – 20,000) which made $25,000; and an Ynez Johnston (Lot 332 est. $2,000 – 3,000) hammered down at $10,938. Nearly all of the works were acquired directly from the artists, which created desirable provenance.

Palevsky Estate Propels LAMA to Record Sales (LAMA)

Design
Marion Maneker0March 02, 2011

Sotheby's Asks What Is Modern?

Sotheby’s latest video series follows a 20th Century Design sale through the auction house process. This video spends some time looking at how the catalogue is conceived, planned and photographed. Catalogue? Isn’t that retro?

Auction Results, Design
Marion Maneker1December 15, 2010

Phillips de Pury Design = $7.1m

The Design auction at Phillips de Pury was the biggest result ever for the firm. With 214 lots offered and 73% selling, the sale brought in: $7,101,812.

Top Ten Lots:

  1. Lot 57 Flavio Poli Important and monumental chandelier, from the Hotel Bristol, Merano, Italy, $434,500
  2. Lot 14 Emile-Jacques Ruhlmann Rare “Elephant armchair, $290,500
  3. Lot 43 Charlotte Perriand Unique monumental “Bahut” sideboard, $266,500
  4. Lot 44 Harry Bertoia Important unique monumental “Bush” form, $266,500
  5. Lot 7 Serge Mouille Unique and important six-arm ceiling light, $230,500
  6. Lot 38 Robert Mallet-Stevens, Unique desk, for Roger Gompel, Director of the Paris-France Society, $218,500
  7. Lot 4 Poul Henningsen Exceptional large wall light, for the Scala cinema and concert hall, Árhus Theater, Árhus Denmark, $212,500
  8. Lot 34 Line Vautrin Rare “Solaire” mirror, $194,500
  9. Lot 25 Harry Bertoia Large “Bush” sculpture with integrated welded fountain form interior, $170,500
  10. Lot 3 Jean Royére Rare armchair, $178,500
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Auction Results, Design
Marion Maneker0November 28, 2010

Joop Decorative Arts, Paris = €2.66m

Design
Marion Maneker0November 23, 2010

Get Ready for Design in Paris

The market for design and decorative objects seems to have rebounded off the post-crash lows. This week presents a good test of the market with sales in Paris and Vienna. The Wall Street Journal‘s Margaret Struder previews the Joop sale and the various owner collections”

A star lot will be a unique lacquered sideboard decorated with wondrous animals that was created around 1930 by Printz, Switzerland’s lacquer master Jean Dunand and French artist Jean Lambert-Rucki (estimate: €300,000-€500,000). The animals on the cabinet were used in some accessories’ patterns for the autumn/winter 2009 collection for the Wunderkind fashion label, Mr. Joop’s womenswear collection. [Read more...]

Design
Marion Maneker0November 22, 2010

Eileen Gray Furniture to Sell in Paris

Scott Reyburn gets the announcement of Christie’s sale of Eileen Gray furniture to take place in Paris in the Spring. Since the spectacular sales of Gray’s work during the Yves Saint Laurent sale, all eyes have been on the market for the Irish designer’s work.

The Gourdon Collection of Art Nouveau, Art Deco and modernist design will be sold by Christie’s International at the Palais de Tokyo on March 29-31, 2011. The 500 works are owned by French collector Laurent Negro, who has been buying 20th-century design since the 1990s. [Read more...]

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