Description
Butterfield & Butterfield, Published 1992. Wraps, 120 pp.; 28 cm; illustrated throughout with both black-and-white and color photographs.
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Condition & notes
In Very Good condition. Pictorial wraps (front cover reproduces a detail of Horace Vernet's "The Boar Hunt," Lot 3211; back cover reproduces an Edouard Vuillard still life, Lot 3241) with mild shelf wear and light bumping to edges. Binding tight. Pages clean and unmarked.Butterfield & Butterfield Sale 5188P. Auction catalogue for a sale held Wednesday, November 11, 1992, offered simultaneously in San Francisco and Los Angeles. Lots 3000-3277 of fine European paintings, drawings, watercolors, and sculpture. Includes a significant group from the Warren Anderson Collection (Sydney, Australia), among them John Wootton's large "View of Warren Hill, New Market" (est. $300,000-400,000), James Ward's pair "Sir Charles Blunt Hunting a Boar" (est. $300,000-400,000), John Ferneley Sr.'s "Henry Wormald with the Raby Hunt" (est. $280,000-380,000), and a pair of Sir Edwin Henry Landseer hunting scenes. Further lots by Horace Vernet, Edouard Vuillard, Antoine Blanchard, Henri Emilien Rousseau, Leon Lord Weeks, Charles-Alexandre Leloir, Thomas Bush Hardy, and many others, with Old Master works after Raphael, Correggio, and Bronzino. Each entry gives medium, dimensions (inches and cm), signature/inscription, provenance, exhibition and literature references where applicable, and a pre-sale estimate. Catalogue photography by Terry Allen. Concludes with a full artist index (Aachen to Zuccarelli) and a glossary of cataloguing terminology.