Description
Butterfield & Butterfield, Published 1994. Wraps, 112 pp.; 28 cm; illustrated with black-and-white photographs, some in color; laid-in prices realized sheets and corrigenda sheet.
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Condition & notes
In good condition. Glossy black pictorial paper covers, the cover painting running across both, show mild shelf wear with light bumping to edges and corners. Glued binding is brittle and cracked: the first eight to ten leaves have come away and are laid in loose, as have several further leaves. All leaves present. Pages clean and unmarked. American Paintings and Sculpture, lots 750 through 872, at one o'clock, followed by California Paintings and Sculpture, lots 873 through 1080, at half past seven, offered simultaneously in San Francisco and Los Angeles on 13 December 1994. Consignments came from the Estate of Barbara Donohoe Jostes of San Francisco, a Southwest institution, the Estate of Marion D. Sell of Scottsdale, Mrs. Jean Barry Garland and the Estate of Hamilton Garland of Palm Springs, the Estate of Blanche M. Rose of Shell Beach, and the Estate of Mr. and Mrs. James M. Roberts of Piedmont. Laid in are Butterfield's printed prices realized sheets and the corrigenda sheet, which reassigns lot 754 to John Trumbull, 924 to R. Blum and 940 to Albert Mundhenk, withdraws three lots, corrects the medium of the Waugh, retitles the Arthur Putnam bronze Pumas, Male and Female and supplies its foundry, casting date of 1912 and a provenance running through the Carmel Art Gallery, the Anthony White Collection and a loan to the Oakland Museum, and adds Peluso literature for the Bard portrait of the steamboat E. Corning, Jr. The cover lot carried the sale. William Joseph McCloskey's Oranges and Wrappers, eight by eighteen inches and reproduced across both covers, brought $464,500 against a $100,000 to $150,000 estimate. Maynard Dixon's Nevada of 1916, from the Roberts estate, identified in Dixon's own record book and accompanied by a letter from Donald J. Hagerty, brought $101,500. William Aiken Walker's Southern Homestead, bound for John Fowler's catalogue raisonne, brought $54,625, and Frederick Judd Waugh's Rum Row $41,400 over an $8,000 to $12,000 estimate. Helen Lundeberg's Poetic Justice, exhibited in 1942, brought $48,300; Charles Marion Russell's 1898 watercolor Indian Head #2, with a letter from Ginger K. Renner, $23,000; Edgar Payne's Sierra Lake Scene $29,900; Granville Redmond's Moonlit Lake $16,100. Sarah M. Peale's paired 1821 portraits of Susan and Isaac Avery opened the sale at $21,850. Artists represented include William Joseph McCloskey, Maynard Dixon, Charles Marion Russell, Edgar Payne, Granville Redmond, Jack Wilkinson Smith, Helen Lundeberg, Stanton Macdonald-Wright, William Hesthal, Joseph Henry Sharp, Fremont Ellis, William Aiken Walker, Frederick Judd Waugh, Emil Carlsen, Louis Moeller, Harry Wilson Watrous, Robert Spencer, Walter Launt Palmer, Robert Wood, Sarah M. Peale, John Trumbull and Arthur Putnam.