Esoteric Survey

Los Angeles Modern Auctions  has a sale this Sunday, September 30th California Hard-Edge-land More at LAMA The John McLaughlin painting on the top is from 1948. It's a great example from the period right before he went full hard edge minimal and focused just on rectangles.  The bottom piece is a paper and tape collage with graphite from the early 1970s. Nakashima  George Nakashima frame holding a Ben Shahn print Oskar Fischinger Eames! June Schwarcz enamel on a wood box by Espenet Claire Falkenstein Early wood disc feet Flag Halyard chair by Hans Wegner. And check out all the Warhols.  Did you think there wouldn't be any Walter Lamb? They tried to hide it behind that monster David Cressey pot. Check out the sale here .

While a lot of people were gearing up to watch America's race to the bottom (AKA the presidential debate), a ton of great art and design was up for sale at  LAMA .   Wall of Gordon Onslow Ford Helen Frankenthaler George Nakashima DeWain Valentine R.M. Schindler chairs designed these chairs for  Sardi's Restaurant in 1933. The chars were manufactured by the  Warren McArthur Corporation.  The restaurant was demolished by a fire in 1936. These are rare! George Rickey Oskar Fischinger is so underrated. Classic hard edge modern Model no. T-3-C Heifetz Manufacturing Co. by James Harcey Crate This one came out of The Bailey House (Case Study House 20A) by Richard Neutra. See more on The Bailey House  here .  Eames Colouring Toy. I wonder why some of them use the British spelling? Mine doesn't have the "u". Anyway, i t was a gift from Ray Eames to Dale Bailey, who I assume lived in Case Study House 20...

A monumental Sheila Hicks fiber sculpture at the preview for the May 22nd  LAMA   sale. It appears they also have some Walter Lamb furniture KEM Weber desk and side table designed for the Disney studios in 1938. KEM Weber music cabinet designed for the Disney studios in 1938. This was the KEM Weber set up at Disney, complete with an "Airline" chair on the right  Source: Walt Disney Archives Three paintings by Oskar Fischinger Coincidentally, Oskar worked as motion picture cartoon effects animator at Disney right around the same time KEM Weber designed the new offices. Theoretically, he could have been using a Weber desk when he was working on Fantasia. Fischinger at work at the Disney studio in 1939. He hated it. More on that, here . Source:  Elfriede Fischinger  via Michael Sporn Animation   Salvador Dali was around the Disney studio too. There is an "Airline" chair in the corner. Sour...

There's a great post about Oscar Fischinger on LACMA's blog. Check it out:  Oskar Fischinger and California Abstract Animation Studie nr 8 (excerpt) by Oskar Fischinger from CVM on Vimeo .