Schulim Krimper’s icon of 20th-Century Australian Design, the black bean “Desk” will be featured at Sotheby’s Australia auction, to be held in Sydney on March 20, 2019. This masterpiece was privately owned for 60 years and is considered a tour de force of Australian mid-century Modern Design. The Chairman of Sotheby’s Australia, Geoffrey Smith commented, “From the late 1940s to the 1960s, Schulim Krimper was the master craftsman of mid-century furniture design in Australia. His passion for Australian timber, sleek lines, and the belief that aesthetic beauty and functionality could harmoniously co-exist led to the creation of some of the most compelling and enduring objects created in Australia during the decades immediately following World War II. Krimper’s ‘Desk’ (1955) has long been considered as the exemplar of his creativity, and we are honored to offer this exceptional item for auction on behalf of the family of the original owners.” The pre-auction estimate of this desk is conjectured around $ 20,000 ‐ $ 30,000, and as suggested by the auction press release, “it is poised to generate significant interest and establish a world auction record when offered by Sotheby’s Australia on March 20 in Sydney. In the mid-1950s, Raoul and Ester Kaplan were searching for a desk that was suitable to present as a gift to their son, Dan, to use while completing his medical studies. In their minds, they were not just commissioning a piece of furniture, they were acquiring a work of art. The commissioned desk would become a permanent fixture in the Melbourne Surgery of Dr Dan Kaplan for the next 50 years.” This Krimper’s “Desk” is believed to have been included among 12 works by Krimpler at the 1956 exhibition, “Furniture individually Designed and Built by Krimper, Australia” held in New York at the Rockefeller Center. The desk was commissioned from the artist by Raoul and Ester Kaplan for their son. “When telling relatives and friends of its history, Ester Kaplan had often recounted the fact that she and her husband had had to wait on the delivery of their desk until after the Rockefeller Center exhibition had taken place,” states the auction house while mentioning the provenance of this piece. Schulim Krimper’s work is held in numerous Australian public collections, like the Museum of Applied Arts & Sciences, Sydney, the Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, and National Gallery of Australia, Canberra. https://www.blouinartinfo.com/              Founder: Louise Blouin Read more