Modern Art & Design Auction

February 10, 2008

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L.A.’s premier auction house of Modern Art & Design, will hold its first auction of the New Year Sunday, February 10, 2008 at the Pacific Design Center.  Featuring over 450 lots of paintings, prints, sculpture, furniture and other decorative objects from 1920 to the present, the auction promises to showcase an extraordinary collection of work from the world’s most renowned Modern artists and architects.
The auction’s top examples include:

  • Fine Art by Andy Warhol, Marc Chagall, Ed Ruscha, Helen Lundeberg, Kenneth Noland, and Picasso.  Ranging from $1,500 to $40,000
  • Walter Dorwin Teague exceptionally rare “Nocturne” radio. This cover lot is estimated at $80,000-100,000
  • An exceptional selection of George Nakashima designs (dining table, coffee table, bench, and suite of chairs). Ranging from $1,000 to $100,000.
  • Large selection of Architectural Pottery and other Studio Ceramics from Ettore Sottsass, Gio Ponti and Marc Newson. Ranging from $800 to $3,000.
  • Large selection of Danish Modern furniture including Hans Wegner, Poul Kjaerholm and Arne Jacobsen. Ranging from $3,000 to $40,000
    • Lot 70
    • Walter Dorwin Teague
    • “Nocturne” Radio
    • Sparton Corporation, designed 1935
    • Mirrored glass with chrome and radio components
    • Retains tags
    • 46″ x 43″ x 12″
    • Standing at just under four feet tall, this floor model casts an imposing figure and may be the most avant-garde design for a radio from the 20th Century
    • According to the Design Quarterly review of the Norwest Collection (Minneapolis), only 10 models are known to exist of this exceptional design
    • Estimate $80,000 – $100,000
    • Realized $96,000
    • Lot 45
    • Andy Warhol
    • Mao (#11.95)
    • 1972
    • Screenprint in colors printed on Beckett High White paper
    • #89 of 250
    • Signed in ball-point pen and numbered with rubber stamp verso
    • Printed by Styria Studio, Inc., NY
    • 36″ x 36″
    • Literature: “Andy Warhol Prints”, Feldman/Schellmann, 2003, pg. 82
    • Estimate $40,000 – $60,000
    • Realized $75,600
    • Lot 203
    • George Nakashima
    • Coffee Table
    • Studio, executed 1974
    • American Black Walnut with Rosewood “Butterfly” joints
    • Marked with the clients name in ink
    • 13.5″h x 53″diameter
    • Estimate $20,000 – $30,000
    • Realized $60,000
    • Lot 188
    • Sam Maloof
    • Rocking Chair
    • Custom designed and executed 1995
    • Walnut and Ebony
    • Signed “Sam Maloof” and engrave “No. 30 1995″
    • 45″h x 26.5″w x 44″d
    • Estimate $30,000 – $40,000
    • Realized $49,200
    • Lot 23
    • Esteban Vicente
    • Collage
    • 1978
    • Paper on canvas
    • Signed lower right; verso “Esteban Vincente Collage 1978 Paper on Canvas”
    • 22″ x 25″
    • Estimate $20,000 – $30,000
    • Realized $33,000
    • Lot 29
    • Hans J. Wegner
    • “Papa” Chair and Ottoman
    • Model no. AP 19
    • AP Stolen, designed 1951
    • 38.5″h x 35″w x 36″d;  ottoman 15″h x 28″w x 16″d
    • Estimate $6,000 – $9,000
    • Realized $10,800