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A Pair of Polychrome Decorated Leather Four-Panel Screens
Each with nail head and decorated with village harbor scenes.
Condition: Excellent
Measures: height 30 in, width of each panel 22 in, totaling 88”w
Provenance: Mrs. Marjorie Merriweather PostChristie’s, Property from Mar-A-Lago, Sold by Donald J. Trump, March 30, 1995, sale 8140, lot 31
Heiress of the Post Cereal Company fortune, Mrs. Post was an art collector, noted philanthropist and socialite. The origin of Mrs. Post’s career as a collector goes back to the early part of the 20th-century and coincides with her move to New York. The move to Manhattan brought her into the same social sphere as the Fricks, Whitneys, and Vanderbilts for whom collecting was considered a worthwhile, if not mandatory, pursuit of the wealthy. Mrs. Post bought decorative works of art for her New York home and, through experience and education, gradually developed a discerning eye.
Mrs. Post once said, “So far as collectors are concerned, from my own experience, it (collecting) can be a most rewarding and exciting affair, but first of all a particular interest in an article or period must be established to instigate the desire to collect. Once the ‘desire’ is there and the seeds of the thrill of the search are sown the collector is on his way.” Throughout the 1920’s she acquired fine furniture and decorations for her sumptuous apartment in New York and her estate Mar-A-Lago in Palm Beach, Florida. Upon her death in 1972, Mrs. Post bequeathed Mar-A-Lago to the U.S. Government to be used by the Presidents and visiting dignitaries as a ‘southern White House’. However, the government returned Mar-A-Lago to the Post Foundation and after years of remaining shuttered the estate was sold to Donald Trump in 1985. Mr. Trump carried out extensive improvements to the property which is now the social Club Mar-A-Lago.
No. EE8
All pieces subject to prior sale
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