Description
Butterfield & Butterfield, Published 1992. Wraps, 130 pp.; 28 cm; illustrated with black-and-white photographs throughout and eight numbered color plates; no prices realized sheet.
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Condition & notes
In very good condition. Pale green paper covers, front cover scored parallel to the spine to open flat, as issued. Mild shelf wear with light bumping to edges. Binding tight. Pages clean and unmarked. Nearly six hundred lots of prints, sold over two evenings in San Francisco and Los Angeles: sale 4894K on 10 June 1992, lots 1800 through 2135, and sale 4895L on 11 June, lots 2136 through 2394. Star lot is Toulouse-Lautrec's Jane Avril poster of 1893 (Wittrock P6A), the first of three states, signed and numbered No. 8, Japan-backed, estimated at $55,000 to $75,000. Lot 1927 is Seymour Haden's Etudes a l'eau-forte of 1866 with Philippe Burty's text, the complete volume of thirty-one original etchings in its original embossed leather covers, bound by Haden as a presentation gift and annotated by him to the Burlington Fine Arts Club; the catalogue records it as one of four complete copies then surviving, the other three at the Victoria and Albert Museum, the Library of Congress and the New York Public Library. Two Giacometti lithographs published by Maeght, signed and numbered, come from the estate of David Silver of Los Angeles. Consignors included the estate of Alvord Eiseman of San Francisco, the Charles Demuth scholar, who had died the previous year and whose catalogue raisonne research passed to the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco; the collection of Serge Lozingot of Los Angeles, master printer at Gemini G.E.L. from 1971 to 1990, who printed for Diebenkorn, Guston, Lichtenstein and Sam Francis, all represented in the sale; the estates of Helen Rawls Steiner and Nathaniel R. Dumont; the collection of Louise Combes Seeber of Bloomington, Indiana; and deaccessions from the Phoenix Art Museum and a Southwest museum, sold to benefit acquisition funds. Artists represented include Pablo Picasso, in thirty lots, Joan Miro, in seventeen, Marc Chagall, Rembrandt, Durer, Goya, Piranesi, Hogarth, Whistler, Renoir, Matisse, Braque, Dali, Max Ernst, Rockwell Kent, Man Ray, Alexander Calder, David Hockney, Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, Robert Rauschenberg, Edward Ruscha, Frank Stella, Helen Frankenthaler, Richard Diebenkorn, Wayne Thiebaud and Nathan Oliveira. Cover reproduces lot 2170, a print by Sam Francis.