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ALEXANDER LEYDENFROST (1888-1961)

THE HANFORD PLANT

    Price Realised USD 16,380
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    USD 2,000 - USD 3,000
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    ALEXANDER LEYDENFROST (1888-1961)

    THE HANFORD PLANT

    Price Realised USD 16,380
    Price Realised USD 16,380
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    ALEXANDER LEYDENFROST (1888-1961)
    THE HANFORD PLANT
    signed a. Leydenfrost (lower right)
    charcoal and tempera on paper
    173⁄4 x 343⁄8 in. (45 x 87.3 cm.) (sight)
    Executed circa 1950.
    Provenance
    Norman Brosterman (b. 1952), New York.
    Acquired by the late owner from the above, 2001.
    Literature
    "The Atomic Bomb," Life, 27 February 1950, pp. 96-97, illustrated.
    Norman Brosterman, Out of Time: Designs for the Twentieth-Century Future (New York, 2000), pp. 80-81, illustrated.
    Exhibited
    Tacoma, Washington, Washington State Historical Society, Out of Time: Designs for the 20th Century Future, 11 November 2000- 7 January 2001; also, Lansing, Michigan, Michigan Historical Museum, 27 January-25 March 2001; New York, New York Historical Society, 14 April-10 June 2001; Laramie, Wyoming, University of Wyoming Art Museum, 30 June-26 August 2001; Fargo, North Dakota, Plains Art Museum, 1 December 2001-27 January 2002; Springfield, Massachusetts, 5 October-1 December 2002.
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