FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT, (American, 1869-1959), Presentation

FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT
(American, 1869-1959)
Presentation Drawing for The Arch Oboler House, Malibu, California
ca. 1954, gouache, colored pencil, and ink
signed FLW, l.l.
sheet: 19 3/4 x 26 in., frame: 28 x 34 in.

Provenance: Christie's New York, Important 20th Century Decorative Arts, June 8, 1991, Lot 240; The Collection of a New England Gentleman.

Other Notes: This work is a presentation drawing for a complex in Malibu, California that Wright designed for the American entertainer Arch Oboler (1909-1987) and his wife Eleanor in the 1940s-50s. Unfortunately, the complex was destroyed in the 2018 Woolsey Fire.