Lot 418
418
ANOTHER PROPERTY
A FINE 'SPRITE' HEAD

FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT FOR MIDWAY GARDENS, CHICAGO, CIRCA 1914

Details
A FINE 'SPRITE' HEAD
Frank Lloyd Wright for Midway Gardens, Chicago, circa 1914
Depicting a slightly bowed female head with stylized cubist hair and facial features
10in. (25.4cm.) high without base, 7½in. (19cm.) wide, 8in. (20.3cm.) deep, 15¼in. (38.7cm.) high with base

Lot Essay

cf. Anthony Alofsin, Frank Lloyd Wright, Lessons of Europe 1910-1922, UMI, 1989 where the full question of authorship of the sprite designs is reviewed in detail noting the sketches by Wright and the influence of Mezner on these works; and David A. Hanks, Frank Lloyd Wright, Preserving an Architectural Heritage: Decorative Designs from the Domino's Pizza Collection, 1989, p. 88 for an example of a sprite head which, apparently was one of the maquettes for the sprite sculptures used in Midway Gardens.