Estimate: $25,000 - $35,000
Mira Nakashima Masterworks: The Estate of Geoffrey Halaburt
Auction: April 4, 2023 12:00 PM EDT
"Fiddleback" Persian walnut, American black walnut, laurel, hickory
Single-board English walnut top with four laurel butterflies
The pedestal case with finished, book-matched back
Signed, dated, and inscribed with client's name: "Mira Nakashima April 6. 2010", "Halaburt"
Provenance
Commissioned directly from Mira Nakashima and George Nakashima Woodworker
Property from the Estate of Geoffrey Halaburt
Note
This lot is sold with digital copies of a series of preparatory drawings for the present lot; one signed and dated: "Mira Nakashima January 19. 2010", the others signed and dated: "Mira Nakashima February 8. 2010".
Literature
Derek Ostergard, George Nakashima: Full Circle, p. 123 (related model illustrated)
George Nakashima, studio catalogue, c. 1969, unpaginated
George Nakashima Woodworkers, studio catalogue, c. 2005, p. 14 (related model illustrated)
James A. Michener Art Museum, George Nakashima and the Modernist Moment, pp. 52-53 (related model illustrated)
Mira Nakashima, Nature, Form & Spirit, pp. 179-180 (related model illustrated)