Description
Butterfield & Butterfield, Published 1999. Wraps, 176 pp.; 28 cm; illustrated throughout with color plates; laid-in prices realized sheets and corrigenda sheet.
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Condition & notes
In very good condition. Glossy blue pictorial paper covers show mild shelf wear with light bumping to edges and corners. Binding tight. Realized prices recorded in black ink beside the estimates on many lots, with unsold lots marked by a crossed circle. Otherwise unmarked. Lots 5000 through 5479, sold in three sessions on 9 December 1999 and offered simultaneously in Los Angeles, San Francisco and Chicago, in association with Butterfield & Dunning. Consignments came from the Estate of William and Zelma Bowser of Sonoma, the Estate of Dr. Norman Jenssen of San Francisco, an East Coast collector and a Laguna Beach collector. Laid in are Butterfield's printed prices realized sheets, giving the result for every sold lot including buyer's premium, and the corrigenda sheet, which withdraws three lots, reassigns lot 5035 to William Joseph and Alberta Binford McCloskey and lot 5088 to Edward Moran, corrects two titles and a set of dimensions, and records that the images for lots 5417 and 5418 were printed switched. Top price of the sale was Guy Rose's Mission Point of about 1919 at $629,500 against a $400,000 to $600,000 estimate, catalogued with an essay contributed by Dr. Will South, author of Guy Rose: American Impressionist, which traces the painting through the 1st Annual Painters and Sculptors of Southern California Exhibition of 1920 and Antony Anderson's Los Angeles Times notice of the Battey Gallery showing in April 1921. Edward Potthast's Summer Days, reproduced on the front cover as lot 5101, brought $233,500. Maynard Dixon's Navajo Girl of 1904, from the Bowser collection and exhibited at the Oakland Museum in 1970, brought $189,500 over a $60,000 to $80,000 estimate. Three Society of Six pictures follow: Selden Connor Gile's Fall's Beginning of 1928 at $112,500, August F. Gay's Carmel Valley Farm at $39,100 and William Henry Clapp's Village in Sunlight at $33,350. Because Butterfield's printed list omits unsold lots entirely, the ink annotations carry information the sheets do not: the crossed circles beside lots that failed to sell record the buy-ins as well as the successes. Artists represented include Edward Potthast, Guy Rose, Maynard Dixon, Selden Connor Gile, August F. Gay, William Henry Clapp, Armin Hansen, Joseph Raphael, Donna Schuster, Joseph Kleitsch, Lawton Parker, Ernest Lawson, Walter Gay, Mary Curtis Richardson, Robert Wood, Louis Jambor, Frank Charles Peyraud, Mabel May Woodward, Edward Moran and William Joseph and Alberta Binford McCloskey.