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Property from a Private Chicago Collection

FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT | WINDOW FROM THE WILLIAM E. MARTIN HOUSE, OAK PARK, ILLINOIS

Lot Closed

March 31, 05:25 PM GMT

Estimate

20,000 - 30,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property from a Private Chicago Collection

FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT

WINDOW FROM THE WILLIAM E. MARTIN HOUSE, OAK PARK, ILLINOIS


circa 1902-1903

likely produced by Giannini & Hilgart, Chicago

colored cathedral and clear glass, copper-plated zinc came, original painted wood frame

29¾ x 69 x 1½ in. (75.5 x 175.2 x 3.8 cm) including frame

William E. Martin House, Oak Park, Illinois

Michael FitzSimmons Decorative Arts, Chicago

Bldg. 51, Chicago, 2011

Acquired from the above by the present owner

Thomas A. Heinz, Frank Lloyd Wright Glass Art, London, 1994, p. 61 (for the window design at the Susan Lawrence Dana House, Springfield, Illinois)

Julie L. Sloan, Light Screens: The Complete Leaded-Glass Windows of Frank Lloyd Wright, New York, 2001, pp. 157 (for a drawing of the window design) and 240-241 (for the window design at the Susan Lawrence Dana House, Springfield, Illinois)

Sotheby’s would like to thank Julie S. Sloan for her assistance with the cataloguing of this lot.