$37,800
Estimate: $30,000 - $50,000
Mira Nakashima Masterworks: The Estate of Geoffrey Halaburt
Auction: April 4, 2023 12:00 PM EDT
The table: American black walnut with single-board top retaining two bullet fragments, and single laurel butterfly
The chairs: American black walnut with single-board seats, hickory spindles
The chairs each signed, dated, and inscribed with client's name: "Nakashima 8.9.07", "Halaburt"
The table inscribed with client's name: "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 the original invoice and a digital copy of the original preparatory drawing for the dining table, signed and dated: "April 27, 2006 Mira Nakashima".
Literature
For the chairs:
Janet Koplos and Bruce Metcalf, Makers: A History of American Studio Craft, p. 248 (model illustrated)
Derek Ostergard, George Nakashima: Full Circle, p. 155 (model illustrated)
George Nakashima, studio catalogue, c. 1969, unpaginated (model illustrated)
George Nakashima, The Soul of a Tree, pp. 38, 108, 140, 143-149, 152-153, 167, 169, 183 (model illustrated)
Mira Nakashima, Nature, Form & Spirit, pp. 172-175, 226-227 (model illustrated)
For the table:
George Nakashima, The Soul of a Tree, p. 185 (model illustrated)
Mira Nakashima, Nature, Form & Spirit, pp. 147, 174, 223 (model illustrated)