Eileen Gray painted wood brick screen made $842,000 at Christie's in New York.
Estimated at $2/$3 million, this Eileen Gray armchair failed to sell in New York.
An Eileen Gray painted wood brick screen from 1923 made $842,500 at Christie’s in New York on December 14. This was within the $700,000 – $1,000,000 estimate. Christie’s described the piece, composed of 45 large and ten small white painted wood panels on steel rods, as: “defining the key point of transition between her early engagement with the luxury of lacquer and symbolist motifs and her subsequent commitment to Modernist ideals”.
The screen was one of a pair presented by Miss Gray at the Salon des Artistes Déorateurs in 1923. The other one is now at the National Museum of Ireland in Dublin.
The ‘Sirène’ armchair, a lacquered painted and beech armchair by Eileen Gray which was estimated at $2/$3 million, failed to sell. Bidding reached $1.7 million, at which point it was withdrawn.
See post for December 3 on antiquesandartireland.com