Auction / 15 February 2018
Florsheim / Goldberg
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The Artist Lillian’s artistic production took place late in her life; she began studying art in the late 1940s in her fifties and she continued to work until her eighties. She began with painting courses taught by Rudolph Weisenborn and George Buehle, both in Chicago. After viewing a work by Max Bill at the Art Institute of Chicago she became more interested in abstract work...


The Architect One of several Americans who studied at the Bauhaus, Bertrand Goldberg is unique for his extensive and productive architectural career that spanned from the 1930s into the 1990s. Born in Chicago, Goldberg first went to Harvard before going to study at the Bauhaus in Germany, working briefly in the small office of Mies van der Rohe in Berlin. After returning to Chicago, he started his own firm in 1937...

139 Bertrand Goldberg
wall-mounted desk from the offices of Bertrand Goldberg Associates
$3,000–5,000
result $4,688

141 Bertrand Goldberg
Lightbox featuring the Chicago Post Office and Custom House
$1,000–1,500
result $975

144 Bertrand Goldberg
custom coffee table from the Bertrand Goldberg Residence
$1,000–1,500
result $2,125

150 Bertrand Goldberg
Record rack for Bertrand Goldberg's personal office
$2,000–3,000
result $8,125

155 Bertrand Goldberg
collection of fifteen photographs of early architectural projects
$1,000–1,500
result $1,000

162 Aero Distributing Co., Inc.
Marina City - Chicago at Night postcards, set of four
$50–100
result $63

167 Giovanni Battista Piranesi
The Smoking Fire (Plate VI of the Second Edition, Second Issue, of the Carceri)
$1,500–2,000
result $6,875

174 Pablo Picasso
Peintre et Modèle Tricotant from Le Chef-d'OEuvre Inconnu
$3,000–5,000
result $2,500

184 Pablo Picasso
Peintre Ramassant Son Pinceau from Le Chef-d'OEuvre Inconnu
$3,000–5,000
result $3,250
1960-1982 The Goldberg family brought the famed Maxim’s de Paris to Chicago in the early 1960s, introducing haute-cuisine, in what had been to date a steak and martini town...

219 Alphonse Mucha
Österreich auf der Weltaustellung Paris 1900 poster from Maxim's, Chicago
$1,000–1,500
result $1,875

232 Chez Maxim's
Chez Maxim's: Secrets and Recipes from the World's Most Famous Restaurant
$25–50
result $94

270 Frank Lloyd Wright
collection of four architectural plans and elevations
$1,000–1,500
result $1,500