Sale 9614
New York
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29 - 30 March 2001
Price realised
USD 15,275
Estimate
A SET OF TWELVE IBERIAN ROCOCO GREEN-PAINTED AND PARCEL-GILT DINING CHAIRS Probably 18th Century and redecorated Each with foliate carved yoke-shaped crestrail and two caned panels to the back above a caned seat with loose cushion, covered green striped silk on shell-carved cabriole legs joined by waved H- stretchers and ending in hoof feet (12)
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Pre-Lot Text
Property from the di Portanova Collection (lot 273)
In the 1960s Robert Indiana made LOVE, a work that seemed to embody 1960s idealism. But there was also a darker side to this painter of the American dream
From Cupid to Kahlo to Keats — the artworks and objects that encapsulate the power of love