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Wharton Esherick

Stool

Auction Closed

June 10, 03:47 PM GMT

Estimate

15,000 - 20,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Wharton Esherick

Stool


1932

hickory, original woven leather

signed WHARTON ESHERICK, inscribed TO MARJORIE CONTENT and dated MCMXXXII

22 x 14 ¾ x 14 ¾ in. (55.9 x 37.5 x 37.5 cm)

Marjorie Content, New York, commissioned directly from the artist
Thence by descent
Rago Auctions, Lambertville, New Jersey, June 7, 2015, lot 1006
Acquired from the above by the present owner
Wharton Esherick 1887-1970: American Woodworker, exh. cat., Moderne Gallery, Philadelphia, 1996, p. 8 (for a period photograph of the model exhibited at Armstrong Cork Company, 1962)