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Wharton Esherick

Music stand

USA, 1960
walnut, cherry 44 h × 20 w × 20½ d in (112 × 51 × 52 cm)
estimate: $6,000–8,000
result: $15,240
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Carved signature and date to reverse ‘WE 1960’. Sold with some repaired breaks, please refer to condition report for this lot prior to bidding.
provenance: Important Private Collection
literature: Wharton Esherick Studio & Collection, Eisenhauer (ed.), pg. 91 Maker's Hand: American Studio Furniture 1940-1990, Cooke, pg. 24 Wharton Esherick: The Journey of a Creative Mind, Bascom, ppg. 199, 216 Objects USA 2020, Adamson, pg. 41

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Wharton had passed beyond just thinking or feeling or talking art; he was as much a part of what we call “art” as art was a part of him, like the trees that grow around this hilltop—naturally, un-self-consciously.

George Rochberg, friend of the artist

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