LOT DETAILS

Materials:

saw-cut moulded plywood, with flat black painted finish

Measurements:

35.83 in. (91.00 cm.) (height) by 5.91 in. (15.00 cm.) (width) by 5.91 in. (15.00 cm.) (width)

Edition:

unique

Exhibited:

This splint sculpture exhibited: Work of Charles and Ray Eames: A Legacy of Invention, 25 June – 10 September 2000, Los Angeles County Museum, Los Angeles. California’s Designing Women: 1896 – 1986, 6 February 2012 – 27 January 2013, Museum of California Design, The Autry Museum, Los Angeles. Another splint sculpture exhibited: The World of Charles and Ray Eames, 21 October 2015 – 14 February 2016, Barbican Art Gallery, London, United Kingdom

Literature:

Other examples of moulded plywood sculptures, leg splints and experiments illustrated: J. Neuhart, M. Neuhart, R. Eames, Eames Design, the Work of the Office of Charles and Ray Eames, London, 1989, pp. 28-29, 31-34, 40-45. E. Demetrios, An Eames Primer, New York, 2001, pp. 34, 38. C. Ince, L. Johnson, The World of Charles and Ray Eames, London, 2015, pp. 25, 27, 30-37. D. Ostroff, An Eames Anthology, Yale, 2015, pp. 8, 14-15

Provenance:

Eames Office, Venice, Los Angeles. Parke Meek, Venice, Los Angeles. Eames Auction, Treadway Gallery in association with John Toomey and Richard Wright, Chicago, 23 May 1999, lot 2143. Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.