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WENDELL CASTLE (1932-2018)

Lot 157
12.06.2025 00:00UTC +01:00
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$ 120 000
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ID 1442710
Lot 157 | WENDELL CASTLE (1932-2018)
Estimate value
$ 120 000 – 180 000
WENDELL CASTLE (1932-2018)
'Dr. Caligari Desk and Chair', 1986
painted maple, maple-veneered plywood, fiddle back maple, rosewood, patinated steel
29 3/8 x 63 x 35 in. (74.5 x 160 x 89 cm) (desk)
31 x 24 x 20 in. (78.7 x 61 x 50.8 cm) (chair)
desk engraved Wendell Castle 1986 and signed Donald Sottile




Provenance

Alexander F. Milliken Gallery, New York
Sydney and Frances Lewis, Richmond, Virginia
Friedman Benda, New York
Acquired from the above by the present owner



Literature

A. Busch, "By Design. A desk to write on," Metropolis, New York, June 1988, p. 66 (present lot illustrated)
D. S. Taragin, E. S. Cooke, J. Giovannini, Furniture by Wendell Castle, Detroit, 1989, pp. 79, 82 (for a discussion of the design)
"Featured Exhibition: Furniture by Wendell Castle", Delaware Art Museum Quarterly, Winter 1990 (present lot illustrated)
Angel Chairs: New Work by Wendell Castle, Peter Joseph Gallery, New York, 1991, pp. 28-29 (for a discussion of the design)
S. M. Friedman, "Famed Artisan Exhibits Furniture: Castle's Treasury," Sunday Star Ledger, Newark, NJ, 17 February 1991
E. Evans Eerdmans, Wendell Castle: A Catalogue Raisonné, 1958-2012, New York, 2014, p. 185, no. III.173 (for the chair), 217, no. III.315 (for the desk, present lot illustrated)



Exhibited

New York, Alexander F. Milliken Gallery, More Recent Work, September - October 1986
Detroit, Michigan, Detroit Institute of Arts, Furniture by Wendell Castle, December 1989 - February 1990, pp. 83, 127, no. 33 (present lot illustrated)
This exhibit traveled to Wilmington, Delaware, Delaware Art Museum, Furniture by Wendell Castle, March - May 1990; Richmond, Virginia, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Furniture by Wendell Castle, June - August 1990; Rochester, New York, University of Rochester, Memorial Art Gallery, Furniture by Wendell Castle, November 1990 - January 1991; New York, American Craft Museum, Furniture by Wendell Castle, February - April 1991.
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