BILLINGS Presents Studio Craft Auction, Featuring Works from the Estate of Robert Maxwell
LOS ANGELES, Sept. 30, 2024 / — BILLINGS presents “Studio Craft” on Saturday, October 12th 2024 at 10AM PDT.
This auction focuses on hand-crafted unique items from an eclectic mix of ceramicists, weavers, woodworkers and craftspeople. View the catalog, register and pre-bid now at www.billingsauction.com.
The inspiration for this auction sprang from the opportunity to present a curated collection from the estate of California ceramicist Robert Maxwell. As independent craft specialist and curator Meaghan Roddy writes in her essay:
The present collection being offered at BILLINGS are all works spanning the decades of Maxwell’s creative output from his own private collection with his wife and business partner Gaye Lyn Maxwell. Many have made the move throughout the Maxwells’ lives from their original studio in Venice in the 1960s, to Fallbrook, and back again to Los Angeles at BILLINGS today, offering collectors a most unique opportunity to acquire some of the rarest and most important Robert Maxwell works to ever enter the market.
View the entire essay on the BILLINGS website at www.billingsauction.com/robert-maxwell
Additional highlights include:
– A spectacular George Nakashima ‘Conoid’ coffee table
– A Tom Tramel wall-mounted shelving system
– A Stephen White light sculpture
– An ‘Elipses’ mosaic panel by Evelyn Ackerman
Also featured are pieces by familiar names like:
– Vivika + Otto Heino
– Laura Andreson
– John Nyquist
– Paul Evans
There are also works by less familiar, but equally talented artists.
All items are available for preview in person during the week before the sale at the BILLINGS Arts District warehouse in Downtown Los Angeles.
