Sale of Neutra House Falls Through

NEW YORK—The sale of Richard Neutra's landmark Kaufmann House in Palm Springs, Calif., which went for $16.8 million at Christie's May 13 Postwar and Contemporary sale, will not go through, the New York Times reports. Marc Porter, the president of Christie's, told the Times, "The contract has been terminated by the seller by reason of a breach of its terms by the buyer." No further details were offered, and sellers Brent Harris and Beth Edwards Harris could not be reached for comment. The intended buyer remains unidentified. The Modernist house of glass, steel, and stone was commissioned by department store owner Edgar J. Kaufmann Sr., who also commissioned Frank Lloyd Wright's Falling Water, and built from 1946 to 1947.