LOS
ANGELES, July 25, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- On
Tuesday, August 13, 2024, at
10:00am PDT, John Moran Auctioneers
will present their Summer Art +
Design sale. This auction will feature influential modern artists
and designers including Agnes Pelton, Alexander Calder, Victor Brecheret, Titus
Kaphar, Alice Baber, Julie Heffernan, Sam
Francis, and Frank Stella.
Highlighting the design selections George
Nakashima, Doyle Lane,
Hans Wegner, and an armchair
inspired by Salvador Dali.
Unseen in public for nearly one hundred
years, "Flowering" was re-discovered by Moran's.
The star of the show, a fresh-to-market painting by the American
Modernist, and one of the most influential female painters of the
last century, Agnes Pelton
(1881-1961). Only a handful of canvasses by Pelon's desirable
'transcendental desert' period have come to market in the last 50
years. Created in 1929 at the zenith of her career,
Flowering, estimated at $300,000-500,000, is a stunning example of her
visual vocabulary of fluid form, allegorical iconography, and
luminescence that were central elements in what would become known
as Transcendental Painting.
Moran's is pleased to offer a substantial collection of original
works, prints, and ephemera from the estate of John McKaughan Jr., who was the creative
director for Brandriff Airlines for nearly three decades. McKaughan
collaborated with notable figures such as Calder, Emilio Pucci, Alexander
Girard, and Roy Halston
Frowick. The collection includes flight attendant outfits,
fabric samples, design proofs, and more. A highlight of this
collection is "Untitled," estimated $20,000-30,000, an original work by Alexander Calder gifted to his colleague and
long-time friend, John
McKaughan.
Other fine art includes Alice Baber's Abstract,
estimated at $6,000-8,000,
Julie Heffernan's "Self Portrait
As Infanta [sic] With Atlas Stick," 1999, estimated
$15,000-20,000, and the marble
sculpture, "Tocadora De Guitarra", estimated $20,000-30,000, by important Brazilian modernist
sculptor Victor Brecheret.
Standout design offerings include an orange glazed ceramic "Weed
Pot," circa 1965-1976, by Doyle
Lane, estimated $4,000-6,000,
six George Nakashima "Conoid Lounge" chairs, estimated
$20,000-30,000, and an extremely rare
"Sillón Leda" brass armchair by BD Barcelona inspired by Salvador
Dali's 1935 painting "Femme à Tête de Roses," estimated
$15,000-20,000. There will also be a
Hans Wegner "Papa Bear" chair, estimated $5,000-7000, and an "Easy Chair" and ottoman by
Warren Platner, valued at
$3,000-5,000.
To learn more, or to register to bid, go
to www.johnmoran.com.
Contact:
Brenda Smith, John Moran
Auctioneers
brenda@johnmoran.com
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