Modern Art & Design Auction

<span style="font-size:100%;"><a href="http://www.lamodern.com/"><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Los Angeles Modern Auctions</span></a></span><br /><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(153, 153, 153);">Preview April 25 – May 5, <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Auction May 6, 2012 12 p.m.<br /><br /><br /></span></span><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(153, 153, 153);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><br /></span></span><a href="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7047/6991023830_81050ca740_b.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7047/6991023830_81050ca740_b.jpg" style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 702px; height: 870px;" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7200/7136976589_c0d19917f1_b.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7200/7136976589_c0d19917f1_b.jpg" style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 703px; height: 609px;" /></a></div><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);">above:</span><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(153, 153, 153);"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Edward Wormley</span> Pair of Cane-Back chairs </span><br /><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(153, 153, 153);">(photography by David John)</span><br /><br /><br style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(153, 153, 153);"></div><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">This Sunday May 6, 2012 at 12 p.m.</span><span style="color: rgb(51, 0, 0); font-style: italic;font-size:130%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;"> LAMA's Modern Art & Design Auction </span></span><span style="font-style: italic;">will be held at their Van Nuys Warehouse. This afternoon, I previewed the lots including works from Andy Warhol, David Hockney, Tom Wesselmann, Robert Rauschenberg, R.M. Schindler, Ed Ruscha, Greta Grossman, Karel Appel, Louise Nevelson, Charles Eames, Claes Oldenburg, and Richard Neutra to name a few. </span><br style="font-style: italic;"><br style="font-style: italic;"><span style="font-style: italic;">The design auction market continues to gain momentum. "Last year our sales reached $8.5 million, nearly doubling our previous record of $4.5 million set in 2008,” stated Peter Loughrey. Further, LAMA recently named Dan Tolson as the new Director of 20th Century Decorative Art & Design. </span><br style="font-style: italic;"><br style="font-style: italic;"><span style="font-style: italic;">As an interior designer, I look to LAMA for knowledge & expertise, and <span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);font-size:130%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;">their selection of international design + art. </span></span>I've included a selection of photographs of works that caught my attention on today's preview. <span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">LAMA's </span></span><a href="http://lamodern.auctionserver.net/view-auctions/catalog/id/8/"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size:130%;">catalog is online here</span>,</span></a> and the preview is ongoing, till their May 6th Auction.<br /><br />See you there! <span style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);">- David John</span></span><br /><br /><br style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><a href="http://youhavebeenheresometime.blogspot.com/2010/10/yhbhs-interview-peter-loughrey-pioneer.html" style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-style: italic;">Read Peter Loughrey's interview with YHBHS here, from 2010:</span></a></span><br />"Peter Loughrey was raised in rural Maryland by antique-collecting parents. He has early memories of visiting antique shops and decorative arts museums; both were slow and deliberative compared to the fast pace of auctions."<br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7268/7136976317_1e285dac09_b.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7268/7136976317_1e285dac09_b.jpg" style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 702px; height: 925px;" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7058/7137038463_25122c1573_b.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7058/7137038463_25122c1573_b.jpg" style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 700px; height: 981px;" /></a></div><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center; font-style: italic;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Greta Magnusson Grossman Desk</span> <span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);">with rare top storage unit </span><br style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"> Glenn of California designed 1952 Model no.6200 and 6200A, Est: $10,000 - $15,000<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /></span></div><br /><a href="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7048/6990891808_fb8eb52d02_b.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7048/6990891808_fb8eb52d02_b.jpg" style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 700px; height: 905px;" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: center; font-style: italic; color: rgb(153, 153, 153);"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><br />Charlotte Perriand </span><br />Pair of Perriand stools plus one of a simlilar style,<br />Galerie Sentou designed 1970 Mahogany<br /><br /><br /></div><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7124/6990891530_6fc2e7ee01_b.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7124/6990891530_6fc2e7ee01_b.jpg" style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 700px; height: 984px;" /></a><br style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(153, 153, 153);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;"><br /><br />Le Corbusier!!!! Bogota Aubusson</span><br />1950 Handwoven wool From the edition of 6 </span><br style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(153, 153, 153);"><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(153, 153, 153);">Estimate: $40,000 - $60,000 (in background)</span><br /><br /><br /><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><a href="http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8022/7136976155_ffd9414894_b.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8022/7136976155_ffd9414894_b.jpg" style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 701px; height: 1004px;" /></a><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(153, 153, 153);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;">John Follis & Rex Goode</span><br />"Sombrero" Architectural Pottery designed 1949 </span><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /></div><a href="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7209/7136976055_0754e4af90_b.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7209/7136976055_0754e4af90_b.jpg" style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 702px; height: 972px;" /></a><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Serge Mouille </span><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-style: italic;">Lampadaire Simple floor lamp </span><br /><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-style: italic;">Studio designed 1953; early production , Estimate: $15,000 - $20,000 </span><br /></div><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7229/6990890632_a354dbbd4d_b.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7229/6990890632_a354dbbd4d_b.jpg" style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 699px; height: 943px;" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(153, 153, 153);"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><br /><br /><br />Carson Thomson</span> </span>Prototype articulated table </span><br style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(153, 153, 153);"><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(153, 153, 153);">Studio designed c. 1965 Mahogany and enameled steel </span><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7268/7137283063_b51dbbef46_b.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7268/7137283063_b51dbbef46_b.jpg" style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 782px; height: 1024px;" /></a><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;"><br /><br /><br /><br />Edward Durell </span><br style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(153, 153, 153);"><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(153, 153, 153);">Stone Stool Fulbright Furniture designed 1945 Oak </span><br /><br /><br style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(153, 153, 153);"></div><br /><br /><a href="http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8026/7136976455_10fab2cc02_b.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8026/7136976455_10fab2cc02_b.jpg" style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 701px; height: 937px;" /></a><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(153, 153, 153);"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><br />Stan Bitters</span> Group of four bird feeders Hans Sumpf designed c. 1960 </span><br style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(153, 153, 153);"><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(153, 153, 153);">Estimate: $1,000 - $1,500 </span><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;">"Founded in 1992 by Peter Loughrey, <span style="font-style: italic;font-size:130%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;">Los Angeles Modern Auctions (LAMA)</span></span> is the first auction house to specialize in selling 20th century Modern Art & Design. LAMA holds four auctions a year, plus occasional exhibits that are open to the public. From the casual buyer to the most dedicated collector, LAMA auctions offer quality, vetted modern material in every price range, including paintings, prints, furniture, and decorative objects. With 25 years experience in the modern art and design field, LAMA has carved a niche into the international market through milestone auctions featuring artists and designers such as Charles and Ray Eames, Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, Paul Laszlo, Pablo Picasso, Alexander Calder, and R.M. Schindler. LAMA has also conducted auctions for prominent California estates, including those of James Prestini, James Byrnes, and Max Palevsky. From a single work of art to an entire estate,<span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; color: rgb(51, 0, 0);"> LAMA is quickly becoming the choice auction house on the West Coast to buy and sell Modern Art & Design.</span></span>"<br /><br style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br /><br /><br style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">----------------</span><br /></div></div>

Modern Art & Design Auction

Los Angeles Modern Auctions Preview April 25 – May 5, Auction May 6, 2012 12 p.m. above: Edward Wormley Pair of Cane-Back chairs (photogra...

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<span style="font-size:100%;">Within the</span><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(102, 102, 102);font-size:100%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;"> ‘labyrinth’ </span></span><span style="font-size:100%;"><br />a paradox is allowed:<br /></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: italic;font-size:100%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;">we lose ourselves to find ourselves.</span></span><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7255/6989898838_65dce2e7cc_b.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7255/6989898838_65dce2e7cc_b.jpg" style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 701px; height: 741px;" /></a><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;font-size:130%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /><br />Robert Morris</span></span> <span style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);">LABYRINTH </span><br /><br />"A full scale labyrinth installation by Robert Morris is on view at <a href="http://www.sonnabendgallery.com/index.php"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Sonnabend Gallery</span></span></a> in the courtyard. Robert Morris has said of his labyrinth works: “The labyrinth is a form that recedes back beyond memory. And it seems to have been a kind of metaphysical architecture, one that was never actually built in ancient times but rather inscribed in petroglyphs, or stamped in coins, and later manifested in mosaics or depicted in paintings. Beyond its origins being shrouded in the unrecoverable past, its function in ancient times remains a subject of endless speculation. <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Metaphors rise and fall here; labyrinthine meanings are reflected in the form itself.</span>” “I think of Wittgenstein’s remark about how language is a labyrinth of paths; approached from one side one loses one’s way. So too forming with the non-linguistic can become labyrinthine, coherent from one side, not from another. Within the ‘labyrinth’ a paradox is allowed: we lose ourselves to find ourselves."<br /><br /><br /><br style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">-----------------</span>

Within the ‘labyrinth’ a paradox is allowed: we lose ourselves to find ourselves. Robert Morris LABYRINTH "A full scale labyrinth ...

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<span style="font-style: italic;">"You lie in the heat of<span style="font-weight: bold;"> a summer haze </span></span><br style="font-style: italic;"><span style="font-style: italic;">And turn it into a winters tale </span><br style="font-style: italic;"><span style="font-style: italic;">You pull down the blinds </span><br style="font-style: italic;"><span style="font-style: italic;">and shut out the sky </span>" -<span style="font-style: italic;"> Lloyd Cole</span>,<span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(153, 153, 153);"> loveless</span><br style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(153, 153, 153);"><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8160/7132170453_cdbb0a1edb_b.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8160/7132170453_cdbb0a1edb_b.jpg" style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 701px; height: 589px;" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-style: italic;font-size:130%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br />Harold Gilman </span></span>(1876‑1919) Study for 'Leeds Market' Date c.1913<br />@ <a href="http://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-britain/display/drawings-camden-town-group">Tate Britain, until May 7. </a><br /><br /></div> <span style="font-style: italic;"><br />"Gilman's subject here is <span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">the isolation and loneliness of life in a big city</span></span>,<br />but, unlike the older artist, he suppresses all suggestion of a narrative."<a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/culturereviews/3671131/The-Camden-Town-Group-painters-who-lit-up-the-streets.html"> (text from here)</a></span><br /><br /><br />"And do what you can to turn the whole thing grey ,<br />You're crying and pleading and you're hell just to be with<br />And you're everything that Ill ever need<br />So why do you say you love me when you dont?<br />You fall back into the English way<br />Of feeling only guilt cause you feel no pain<br /><span style="font-style: italic;font-size:130%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;">You sit and you stare at the empty page"</span></span><br /><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(153, 153, 153);">(Lloyd Cole, loveless)</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;font-size:130%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /></span></span>"<a href="http://www.tate.org.uk/search?f[]=im_vid_50:2190"><span style="font-style: italic;font-size:180%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;">The Camden Town Group</span></span> </a>was a London-based society of sixteen artists who exhibited together three times in 1911 and 1912. The group encompassed a diverse array of styles and objectives, and ultimately disbanded due to artistic differences. Despite the brief nature of their alliance, their association heralded the absorption of European Post-Impressionism into contemporary British art, and witnessed a new desire for art to feature subjects taken from modern life. To mark the centenary of the group’s formation, this display focuses on one of their shared concerns, the important role in artistic practice of drawing. "<br /><br /><br /><br style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">------------------</span>

"You lie in the heat of a summer haze And turn it into a winters tale You pull down the blinds and shut out the sky " - Lloyd Co...

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