Sculptural Fantasy: The Important American Folk Art Collection of Stephen and Petra Levin
Sculptural Fantasy: The Important American Folk Art Collection of Stephen and Petra Levin
Auction Closed
October 10, 05:49 PM GMT
Estimate
15,000 - 25,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
MASTERPIECE TRAMP ART EIFFEL TOWER, GEORGE PAUL KEILBERG (1876-1932), FOND DU LAC, WISCONSIN, 1915
Height 111 in. by Width 43 in. by Depth 43 ½ in.
Bought at a garage sale in 1987 for 25 cents;
Christie's, New York, Important American Furniture, Silver, Folk Art and Decorative Arts, June 22. 1994, sale 7924, lot 74.
Clifford A. Wallach and Michael Cornish, Tramp Art One Notch at a Time: The Craft, the Techniques & the Makers, (New York: Wallach-Irons, 1998), pp. 4, 68-9, illus;
Architectural Digest, June 1999, p. 232, illus.