Lot 339 AMERICAN PIONEER: TWO IMPORTANT COMMISSIONS BY FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT FROM A PRIVATE COLLECTION

FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT (1867-1959)

Rare and Important High-Back Dining Chair for the Francis W. Little House, Peoria, Illinois, circa 1902

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FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT (1867-1959)
Rare and Important High-Back Dining Chair for the Francis W. Little House, Peoria, Illinois, circa 1902
quarter-sawn oak, leather upholstery
52 1/16 x 16 1/2 x 17 5/16 in. (132.2 x 41.9 x 44 cm)

Francis W. Little, Peoria, Illinois, 1902
Hirschl & Adler Gallery, Chicago
Barbra Streisand, Los Angeles
The Barbra Streisand Collection, Christie's, New York, 29 November 1999, lot 493
Acquired from the above by the present owner

D. Haight, P. Blume, Frank Lloyd Wright: The Library from the Francis W. Little House, Allentown, 1978, pp. 13-14 (for a discussion of the commission)
F. L. Wright, Drawings and Plans of Frank Lloyd Wright: The Early Period (1893-1909), New York, 1983, Plate XXVIII (for an illustration and floorplan of the house)
B. B. Pfeiffer, Y. Futagawa, Frank Lloyd Wright Monograph: 1902-1906, Tokyo, 1987, pp. 16-25 (for the plans, elevations, interior and exterior photographs, and a discussion of the commission)
The Domino’s Center for Architecture and Design, Working With an Architect: The Littles and Frank Lloyd Wright, New York, 1989, pp. 2-6 (for a discussion of the commission)
T. Heinz, Frank Lloyd Wright: Architectural Monographs No. 19, London 1992, p. 47 (for the interior of the primary bedroom)
T. Brohan, T. Berg, Avantgarde Design 1880-1930, Cologne, 1994, p. 67
T. Heinz, Frank Lloyd Wright Interiors and Furniture, London, 1994, pp. 60-61 (present lot illustrated)
C. and P. Fiell, 1000 Chairs, Cologne, 1997, p. 139
W. A. Storrer, The Architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright: A Complete Catalog, Chicago, 2007, pp. 66-67 (for a discussion of the commission)

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FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT (1867-1959)

Rare and Important High-Back Dining Chair for the Francis W. Little House, Peoria, Illinois, circa 1902

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Rare and Important High-Back Dining Chair for the Francis W. Little House, Peoria, Illinois, circa 1902

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