Modern & Post-Modern Design online 3885T | December 13–22, 2021 | www.skinnerinc.com
Modern & Post-Modern Design online December 13–22, 2021 | www.skinnerinc.com Our December sale offers 400 lots for the discerning collector, dealer, or homeowner seeking furniture, artwork, and decorative objects spanning the 20th and early 21st centuries. Highlights include George Nelson designs for Herman Miller; Eero Saarinen designs for Knoll; early works from George Nakashima; art glass by Dale Chihuly, Toots Zynsky, the masters of Murano and Steuben; a collection of Gerry Williams studio pottery; Thomas Moser furniture; and objects from the collection of Barney and Mim Berliner.
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front cover: 1144 Dale Chihuly (b. 1941) Seven-piece “Persian” Art Glass Sculpture $8,000-12,000
1200 Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) “Woman-faced Wood-owl” Ceramic Vase $4,000-6,000 1158 George Nakashima (1905-1990) Turned Leg Dining Table $4,000-6,000 1156 George Nakashima (1905-1990) English Burlwood Coffee Table $20,000-30,000 1157 George Nakashima (1905-1990) Four Grass Seat Chairs $8,000-12,000
1143 Dale Chihuly (b. 1941) Five-piece Sea Form Persian Glass Wall Sculpture $10,000-15,000 1111 Hans J. Wegner (1914-2007) for AP Stolen “Mini Bear” AP20 Lounge Chair $1,000-1,500
1153 Steve Tobin (b. 1957) “Cocoon” Art Glass Sculpture $300-400 1148 Martin Rosol (b. 1956) Inverted V Art Glass Sculpture $1,000-3,000 1001 George Nelson (1908-1986) for Herman Miller Model 5245 Thin Edge Cabinet $3,000-4,000
1118 Hans J. Wegner (1914-2007) for Getama GE6 Daybed $400-600 1146 Mary Ann “Toots” Zynsky (b. 1951) Filet-deverre Art Glass Vase $8,000-12,000
1075 John Opper (American, 19081994) Abstract Painting $600-800 1074 John Opper (American, 19081994) Abstract Painting $600-800 1204 Eleven Pieces of Lucie Rie (Austrian/British, 1902-1995) Ceramics $2,000-2,500 1179 Thomas Moser “Washington Square” Chair and a “Crescent” Footstool $600-800
frank gehry One of the most celebrated architects of the second half of the 20th century, Frank Gehry has made a career of pushing boundaries and questioning what architecture can do. Gehry created his bentwood furniture collection, including the Cross Check Chair, for Knoll in 1992. Inspired by the surprising strength of the apple crates he played on as a child, Frank Gehry created his thoroughly original collection of bentwood furniture. The ribbon-like designs transcend the conventions of style by exploring, as the great Modernists did, the essential challenge of deriving form from function. - Knoll
1163 Four Frank Gehry (Canadian/ American, b. 1929) for Knoll International “Cross Check” Armhairs $2,000-4,000 1016 Forty-three Pieces of Gerald Gulotta (b. 1921) for Block Lagenthal “Circle in the Square Transition” Pattern Dinnerware $300-500 1203 Lucie Rie (1902-1995) Green Pitted Stoneware Bowl $2,500-3,500
gerry williams pottery Gerry Williams (1926-2014) was a nationally and internationally recognized master craftsman, teacher, lecturer, and author. He was the founder of The Studio Potter, a nonprofit membership organization, and editor of The Studio Potter Magazine, a journal about the aesthetics, technology, and history of pottery and about the personal lives of ceramic artists. On February 19, 1998, he was appointed as New Hampshire’s first Artist Laureate by Governor Jeanne Shaheen. Born in India in 1926, the son of American missionaries, Williams attended Cornell College in Iowa during the war. Influenced by Gandhi, Williams states, “There is a lot of the spirit of India in my work, though not necessarily in the form of pottery. The political effigies that I do certainly come from my India experience because I look after them not as sculpture, but as folk art. The ambiance, the dignity of crafts, the importance of manual labor, the spiritual necessity of the humanistic core of crafts all come from my background in India.” He began his career in ceramics at the League of New Hampshire Craftsmen in the early 1950s when studio pottery was gaining recognition in the United States. New Hampshire was home to a number of significant artists in the studio ceramics movement such as Vivika & Otto Heino, Mary & Edwin Scheier, Karl Drerup, the Baileys, Ed Keen, George and Maija Salo, Lily Hoffman, and Joseph Tripetti. Williams was inspired by these master potters when he built his own studio and home in rural Dunbarton, New Hampshire. Williams is known for his technical mastery in developing a photo resist process to lay images directly onto vessels (see Lot #####). He was also noted as a master of the “copper red glaze,” an elusive and challenging technique to attain. His works are a part of many public and private collections including the Smithsonian Institution, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, The Currier Museum of Art, the Museum of Contemporary Crafts, Fleming Museum, and the George Walters Smith Museum in Springfield, Massachusetts. – New Hampshire State Council on the Arts
browse & bid: www.skinnerinc.com 1083 Loredano Rosin (1936-1992) “Alien” Art Glass Sculpture $1,000-1,500 1084 Trio of Luciano Mazzuccato Art Glass Figural Sculptures of Mandarins $1,000-1,500
opposite: 1212-1248 Collection of Gerry Williams Studios Pottery 1219 Gerry Williams (1926-2014) Studio Pottery Table Lamp $500-700 1220 Two Gerry Williams (1926-2014) Studio Pottery Chargers $400-600
1015 Eero Saarinen (Finnish American, 1910-1961) Marble-top Tulip Table and Eight Tulip Chairs $3,000-5,000
1269 Salvador Dali (1904-1989) for Lampara Cajones Sculpted Table Lamp $1,000-1,500 1294 Marc Desplaines (b. 1960) for Antoine Proulx Dining Table $2,000-4,000 1284 Piero Fornasetti (1913-1988) “Casa con Colonne” Umbrella Stand $800-1,200 1009 Ray (1912-1988) and Charles Eames (1907-1978) for Herman Miller “Time Life” Stool $800-1,200 1273 De Pas, D’urbino, and Lomazzi for Poltronova “Joe” Chair $3,000-5,000
1348 Leonard Baskin (American, 1922-2000) Swift Dog Lithograph $300-500
Marilyn and Barnett Berliner
the berliner collection Movers and shakers in Boston’s art world in the 50s, 60s, 70s, and 80s, Barney and “Mim” Berliner were known for their daring art collection of abstract expressionist art, their passion for modern furniture and furnishings, their grand Victorian home (transformed by architect Barney’s dramatic contemporary interventions), and their founding, with friends, of the Brookline Arts Center, which began in the basement of their home. A portion of the proceeds of the sale of items from the Berliner Collection will benefit The Brookline Arts Center.
1346 Joan Miró (Spanish, 1893-1983) L’Etoile Bleu (Blue Star) Lithograph $800-1,200
1354 Dimitri Hadzi (1921-2006) Two Bronze Sculptures $400-600
1344 Victor Vasarely (Hungarian, 19081997) for Rosenthal “Erebus” Glass Sculpture $800-1,200
1339 African Carved Cheetah Chair $300-500
1363 Marlis Schratter (German/American, b. 1919) Abstract Ceramic Sculpture $150-250
1359 Albert Leon Wilson (1920-1999) Abstract Reclining Figures $200-400
1366 Herbert Bayer (1900-1985) for Rosenthal Landscape Sculpture $150-250
For buyers, consignors, and the passionately curious