LOS
ANGELES, June 20, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- BILLINGS is
pleased to present Summer Modern Art + Design on June 29th, 2024 at 10 AM PDT. This sale features 375 lot of modern
and contemporary American, Scandinavian, and Italian furniture,
decorative arts, paintings and sculpture. View the catalog,
register and pre-bid now at www.billingsauction.com.
Highlights of this sale include:
Fine Art
- Two Pablo Picasso lithographs,
from the Portraits Imaginaire series
- A fine lithograph by Joan Miro
entitled 'Le Lizard aux Plumes d'Or' from 1971
- Additional prints by Picasso, Miro, Georges Braque and Paul
Jacoulet.
Three-dimensional Fine Art
- Two fine mounted sculptures by Los
Angeles-based ceramicist Adam
Silverman, acquired directly from the artist.
- An ephemeral Otto Boll floor
sculpture, acquired in 2023 at Axel Vervoordt Gallery in
Hong Kong.
American Design
- A wonderful Arts + Crafts hall chair by Charles Rohlfs from 1901
- Four Doyle Lane weed pots in
varying sizes, shapes and glazes
- Three studio-made works by Sam
Maloof, including a rare set of eight dining armchairs
- A polychromed 'Chan' coffee table by Philip and Kelvin Laverne
- Several pieces by Paul Evans,
Evelyn Ackerman, Charles +
Ray Eames, George Nelson, and Isamu
Noguchi
- A collection of ceramics by Mineo
Mizuno
- Windbells by Paolo Soleri
- A unique fountain by Stan
Bitters
- Outdoor furniture by Robert
Lewis and Walter Lamb
Danish Design and Decorative Arts
- An early 'Papa Bear' lounge chair and ottoman by Hans J. Wegner
- Vintage and contemporary Poul
Henningsen lighting
- Ceramics by Gunnar Nylund
- Furniture by Finn Juhl,
Borge Mogensen, Kaare Klint, Ulla Parkdahl, and Frits Henningsen.
Italian Design by
- Ettore Sottsass Jr.
- Bruno Munari
- Afra and Tobia Scarpa
- Mario Bellini
- Gaetano Pesce
French works by
- Charlotte Perriand
- Pierre Jeanneret
- Jean Prouve
- Le Corbusier
- Michel Ducaroy
- Pierre Chapo
- Andre Sornay
Luxuries and Oddities
- Two Louis Vuitton suitcases
- An elephant-shaped bidet with hammered silver insert by
Gustave Keller from 1886
- A set of blackened bronze monkey candelabras
- An Belgian exercise dummy
- A Baby Grand Piano in aluminum
by Johan Rippen
- A spectacular enamel and metalwork vase by June Schwarcz
- Four embossed relief panels by Jasper
Johns.
All items are available for preview in person during the week
before the sale, or at the preview party the night before the
auction at the BILLINGS Art District warehouse in Downtown Los Angeles. Bidding is available
live online, in person, via phone, or absentee.
BILLINGS Summer Modern Art & Design
Auction
2124 Sacramento Street, Los Angeles,
CA 90021
Auction
June 29, 10am
Preview
June 22: 9am -
2pm
June 24-28: 10am - 4pm
Preview Party
June 28: 6pm -
9pm
About BILLINGS
Founded in 2015 to address an absence of curated channels in
Los Angeles' design market,
BILLINGS offers a platform for the sale of quality modern design,
furniture, art, and decorative objects.
BILLINGS' quarterly auctions feature 300-400+ lots spanning from
the pedigreed to anonymous, classic to unusual, and rare to
noteworthy. Heavily weighted in mid-century modern selections from
the 1960s to the early 2000s, BILLINGS' catalogs represent a wide
range of American and international art and design.
BILLINGS' in-house live auctions are accessible online, with
options to bid in-person, online, as an absentee or by phone.
Registration and pre-bidding begin three weeks before each
sale.
For more information and press inquiries, contact Rich Carmichael at 379431@email4pr.com or by
phone at 213-584-2240.
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