Leopold Forstner

Lot 686: LEOPOLD FORSTNER (1878-1936)

Name: LEOPOLD FORSTNER (1878-1936)
Brand: Christie's
SKU: 56hd3t9fd7

Est: $200,000 USD - $300,000 USDSold:

Christie'sNew York, NY, USDecember 19, 2006

Item Overview

Description

A Pair of Gilt, Colored Glass and Enamel Mosaics, circa 1908
made by the Wiener Mosaikwerkstatte, Vienna
in original iron frame
each: 79 1/2 x 18 1/2 in. (202 x 47 cm.) (2)

Artist or Maker

Leopold Forstner

Exhibited

Edinburgh, National Museum of Antiquities of Scotland, Vienna 1900: Vienna, Scotland and the European Avant-Garde, 1983.

Literature

P. Vergo, exhibition catalogue, Vienna 1900: Vienna, Scotland and the European Avante-Garde, Edinburgh, National Museum of Antiquities of Scotland, 1983, pl. 18 for an illustration of one of these mosaics.

Provenance

Private collection, New York. Reinhold Hofstätter, Vienna.
Fischer Fine Art, London.
Forstner Family collection, Vienna.

Notes

Gustav Klimt's mosaics in the dining room of the Palais Stoclet, Brussels, executed by Leopold Forstner

Auction Details

21/21 Historical Design - 21 years for the 21st Century

Christie's

December 19, 2006, 12:00 AM EST

20 Rockefeller Plaza, New York, NY, 10020, US

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