Description

Sotheby's Sale 6653 [Published Date: 1995]. Catalogue for auction held Jan 12, 1995. Hardcover. Good in Good dust jacket. Blue illustrated Paper over Boards have bumping and nicking to the bottom front corner and light overall bumping and scuffing. Binding tight. A few small number in ink on top corner of front free end paper. Otherwise pages are unmarked with occasional light corner creasing. dust jacket has a 1/2" chip to the paper over the top edge of the spine and several small nicks and tears and creasing along edges. Light overall scuffing to jacket as well Now in an archival-quality (removable) Brodart Cover. NOT Ex-Library. NO remainder marks. Detailed descriptions, estimates and color photos for 183 lots offered by Christies in a controversial sale by The New-York Historical Society of many of its most important Old Master Paintings. The highlight of the sale and a the source of controversy is a collection of 31 Old Master paintings bequeathed in 1867 by Thomas Jefferson Bryan, a pioneering American collector of then little-known Italian paintings.