ID 1230344
Lot 128 | DANKMAR ADLER (1844-1900) AND LOUIS SULLIVAN (1856-1924)
Estimate value
$ 3 000 – 5 000
Pair of Pilasters for the Chicago Stock Exchange, Chicago, Illinois, circa 1893
produced by Winslow Brothers, Illinois
copper-plated iron
84 x 3 ½ x 2 1/8 in. (213.4 x 8.9 x 5.4 cm)
Provenance
Chicago Stock Exchange, Chicago, Illinois, circa 1983
Acquired from the above by the present owner, circa 1972
Literature
J. Vinci, The Art Institute of Chicago: The Stock Exchange Trading Room, Chicago, 1977, p. 22
J. Vinci, The Trading Room: Louis Sullivan and The Chicago Stock Exchange, 1989, p. 23
P. A. Saliga and R. Bruegmann, Fragments of Chicago's Past: The Collection of Architectural Fragments at the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, 1990, p. 140
D. C. Peirce, Art & Enterprise: American Decorative Art, 1825-1917, The Virginia Carroll Crawford Collection, Atlanta, 1999, pp. 376 -377
D. Van Zanten, Sullivan's City: The Meaning of Ornament for Louis Sullivan, New York, 2000, p. 61 (for a discussion of the commission)
R. Nickel and A. Siskind, The Complete Architecture of Adler & Sullivan, p. 190
| Applied technique: | Metalwork |
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| Art style: | Modern art |
| Auction house category: | Furniture and Lamps |
| Applied technique: | Metalwork |
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| Art style: | Modern art |
| Auction house category: | Furniture and Lamps |
| Address of auction |
CHRISTIE'S 20 Rockefeller Plaza 10020 New York USA | ||||||||||||||
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