Important Design Including Post War + Contemporary Art 
5 June 2019
Important Design Including Post War + Contemporary Art 
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Samuel Marx

desk from the Block residence, Chicago

Quigley
USA, 1948
crackle-lacquered wood 29½ h × 48 w × 24½ d in (75 × 122 × 62 cm)
estimate: $25,000–35,000
result: $56,250
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Stamped manufacturer's mark to the underside 'Quigley'
provenance: The Estate of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph L. Block | Mary Lu Roffe, Winnetka, Illinois | Wright, Modernist 20th Century, 6 June 2004, Lot 148 | Liz O'Brien, New York | Collection of Reed and Dephine Krakoff
literature: Ultramodern Samuel Marx: Architect, Designer, Art Collector, O'Brien, ppg 186-209 discuss Block commissions Houses That We Dreamt Of: The Interiors of Delphine & Reed Krakoff, Krakoff, ppg. 60-61

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