Property of a Private English Collector
Wendell Castle
A Unique Floor Lamp
Auction Closed
December 10, 08:02 PM GMT
Estimate
120,000 - 180,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Property of a Private English Collector
Wendell Castle
A Unique Floor Lamp
1967
stack-laminated walnut, glass
monogrammed W.C. and later dated 70
91 ¾ in. (233 cm) high
36 in. (91.4 cm) maximum diameter
Collection of Wendell Castle and Nancy Jurs
George Lindemann, Miami Beach, Florida
Johnson Trading Gallery, New York
R & Company, New York
Acquired from the above by the present owner
Handcrafted Furniture by Wendell Castle - New York Debut, Lee Nordness Gallery, New York, April 9-27, 1968
Talis Bergmanis, "Scottsville Craftsman Creates Useable Sculpture," Rochester Democrat & Chronicle, October 27, 1968, front cover (for the present lot illustrated)
Anne Ogden, "Designing Their Own Lifestyle," House Beautiful, June 1973, n.p. (for the present lot illustrated)
Alastair Gordon, Wendell Castle: Wandering Forms - Works from 1959-1979, exh. cat., The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, Connecticut, 2012, p. 86 (for a period photograph of Wendell Castle with the present lot illustrated)
Emily Evans Eerdmans, Wendell Castle: A Catalogue Raisonné, 1958-2012, New York, 2014, pp. 22 (for a period photograph of the present lot illustrated in the Lee Nordness Gallery, 1968) and 82, fig. II.75 (for the present lot illustrated)
