$20,160
Estimate: $20,000 - $30,000
Mira Nakashima Masterworks: The Estate of Geoffrey Halaburt
Auction: April 4, 2023 12:00 PM EDT
English walnut, American black walnut, laurel
The single-board top with three laurel butterflies to top and one laurel butterfly to underside
Signed, dated, and inscribed with client's name: "Mira Nakashima October 20. 2008", "Halaburt"
Provenance
Commissioned directly from Mira Nakashima and George Nakashima Woodworker
Property from the Estate of Geoffrey Halaburt
Note
This lot is sold with a digital copy of an original preparatory drawing for the present lot, signed and dated: "Mira Nakashima May 1. 2006" and a digital copy of the original invoice from George Nakashima Woodworker.
Literature
George Nakashima, studio catalogue, c. 1969, unpaginated (model illustrated)
George Nakashima Woodworkers, studio catalogue, c. 2005, p. 3 (model illustrated)
George Nakashima, The Soul of a Tree, pp. 173, 181, 182 (model illustrated)
Mira Nakashima, Nature, Form & Spirit, pp. 200, 202, 226 (model illustrated)
Derek Ostergard, George Nakashima: Full Circle, pp. 132-133 (model illustrated)