With just a few lines and shapes, Isamu Noguchi’s set design for Martha Graham’s ballet “Appalachian Spring” suggests a landscape and a way of life. The outline of a house, described with soaring beams, is clean and severe. The only furnishings are a narrow bench and a rocking chair.
On 16 December 2014 Isamu Noguchi’s unique Goodyear table of 1939, carrying an estimate of $2,000,000 – 3,000,000 will be auctioned at Phillips New York. This imposing sculptural icon – designed for then-president of the Museum of Modern Art – is widely considered one of the most important American design works from the twentieth century.
ESTIMATE $50,000-70,000
PROVENANCE Galerie du Passage, Paris
LITERATURE Rosanjin Kitaoji Isamu Noguchi, exh. cat., Sezon Museum of Art, Tokyo, 1996, p. 163, cat. no. S20; Alexander von Vegesack, et al., eds., Isamu Noguchi, Sculptural Design, exh. cat., Vitra Design Museum, Weil am Rhein, 2001, p. 297
Lot 147, Phillips de Pury & Company Design Auction, 14 November 2009, New York
Produced by Ozeki Company, Gifu, Japan. One of two examples ever produced. Top of structure with artist's ideograph.
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