Whom You Know: What Modern Is: The Collection of Mark McDonald

Monday, January 24, 2011

What Modern Is: The Collection of Mark McDonald - Sotheby's New York, 10 March 2011

Sotheby’s is pleased to announce the dedicated auction of What Modern Is: The Collection of Mark McDonald, to be held on 10 March 2011 in New York. The sale offers works assembled over the full span of Mr. McDonald’s impressive career as an influential gallery owner, during which time he helped to create and build the market for midcentury furniture and design in America. His successful galleries, from Fifty/50 and Gansevoort Gallery in New York City to 330 and the current Mark McDonald, Ltd in Hudson, NY, became art-world landmarks where the new style of ‘Midcentury Modern’ moved to the forefront of the design and decorating worlds.

What Modern Is will offer iconic yet affordable masterworks of American, Scandinavian and Italian design, with many of the works carrying estimates in the range of $5,000-30,000. American midcentury furniture and design is led by Charles and Ray Eames’s Unique ESU Cabinet from the 1950s (est. $25/35,000) and Kem Weber’s “Airline” Chair circa 1934 (est. $18/26,000), as well as museum-quality works by Isamu Noguchi, Frank Lloyd Wright and Rudolph Schindler. The impressive selection of Scandinavian ceramics, glass and wood includes an extremely rare variant of a Leaf Platter by Tapio Wirkkala (est. $20/30,000), as well as Timo Sarpaneva’s iconic “Lancet” vase (est. $20/30,000). The sale also features studio jewelry by Art Smith, Claire Falkenstein and Harry Bertoia, and a selection of contemporary design, led by Ali Tayar’s “Plaza” Screen circa 1999 (est. $8/12,000) and works by Ettore Sottsass, Tejo Remy and Andrea Branzi.

What Modern Is will be on exhibition in Sotheby’s York Avenue galleries beginning 5 March, alongside the auction of20th Century Design. In addition, the New York School of Interior Design and Sotheby’s Institute of Art are co-sponsoring the panel discussion “What Modern Is: True Stories of Midcentury Design” on 4 March, which will feature Mr. McDonald, John Waddell and James Zemaitis, and will be moderated by Judith Gura.

http://www.sothebys.com/

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