Wendell Castle
"Three-Legged Thumb" Desk and Armchair
Auction Closed
June 10, 03:47 PM GMT
Estimate
80,000 - 120,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Wendell Castle
"Three-Legged Thumb" Desk and Armchair
1980
maple, mahogany, sycamore
each signed W. Castle and dated 80; the desk also signed Made by S Proctor and W Castle
desk: 29⅛ x 67½ x 38 ¾ in. (74 x 171.4 x 98.4 cm)
chair: 27 ½ x 24½ x 28 in. (69.8 x 62.2 x 71.1 cm)
Richard Kagan Gallery, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Private Collection, Santa Fe, New Mexico
Rago Auctions, Lambertville, New Jersey, April 25, 2009, lot 549
Acquired from the above by the present owner
Private Collection, Santa Fe, New Mexico
Rago Auctions, Lambertville, New Jersey, April 25, 2009, lot 549
Acquired from the above by the present owner
Wharton to Wendell, Modernism Museum Mount Dora, Mount Dora, FL, October 6-2013-September 2014
Elizabeth Sporkin, "Modern Masters of Wood," The Washington Post, March 1, 1980
Michael A. Stone, Contemporary American Woodworkers, Salt Lake City, 1986, p. 24 (for a related desk)
Patricia Conway, Art for Everyday: The New Craft Movement, New York, 1990, pp. 79 and 85 (for the chair)
Emily Evans Eerdmans, Wendell Castle: A Catalogue Raisonné, 1958-2012, New York, 2014, pp. 179, fig. III.142 (for the chair) and 199, fig. III.240 (for the desk)
Michael A. Stone, Contemporary American Woodworkers, Salt Lake City, 1986, p. 24 (for a related desk)
Patricia Conway, Art for Everyday: The New Craft Movement, New York, 1990, pp. 79 and 85 (for the chair)
Emily Evans Eerdmans, Wendell Castle: A Catalogue Raisonné, 1958-2012, New York, 2014, pp. 179, fig. III.142 (for the chair) and 199, fig. III.240 (for the desk)
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