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Butterfield & Butterfield, Published 1990. Wraps, 94 pp.; 28 cm; illustrated with a photographic reproduction of every lot, some in color; no prices realized sheet.
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Condition & notes
In very good condition. Mottled pink and cream paper covers show mild shelf wear with light bumping to edges and corners. A few small dark flecks to back cover. Binding tight. Pages clean and unmarked. Lots 3701 through 3867, sold at half past seven on the evening of 7 November 1990 and offered simultaneously in San Francisco and Los Angeles. Consignments came from the Estate of Edythe Dewey, the Hubbell Estate and the property of Mrs. Ursula Cole Castle. Two Childe Hassams anchor the sale, both bound for Stuart P. Feld and Kathleen M. Burnside's forthcoming catalogue raisonne: Pink Apple Blossoms in the Moonlight, reproduced on the front cover, estimated at $100,000 to $150,000, from Babcock Galleries and the Schoen Collection and shown at the Palm Springs Desert Museum in 1985; and The Old Violinist, Central Park West, New York, estimated at $200,000 to $300,000, with a provenance running from the Henry Huntington Collection in Pasadena through Mrs. Fred H. Bixby of Rancho Los Alamitos and Fred Hathaway Bixby to the Cole family collection in San Francisco. John George Brown's Farm Children of 1881, from the California State University Foundation at Long Beach, carried a $150,000 to $200,000 estimate, and Theresa Bernstein's Hawthorne Inn of 1915, exhibited in the Crane Collection's American Paintings of the 19th Century in Boston, $55,000 to $65,000. Reginald Marsh's Building a Skyscraper is reproduced from both sides, an additional sketch of the same subject appearing on the reverse. Rembrandt Peale's portrait of Dr. Hugh Lenox Hodge descended through the sitter's family from its showing at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in 1843. William Holbrook Beard's Minerva Reflecting comes with an Albright-Knox letter identifying it as one of a set of twenty cartoons the artist gave the gallery, and Louis Ribak's Chess Players with a certificate from Beatrice Mandelman Ribak, the artist's wife. A deep group of Joseph A. Imhof Pueblo subjects runs through the Southwestern section, and two Rockwell Kent watercolors of 1925 and 1926 close it, one inscribed by the artist as a gift. A house advertisement in the front matter announces Butterfield's new Automated Auction Results line, offering sale results by touchtone telephone twenty-four hours a day. Artists represented include Childe Hassam, John Singer Sargent, Albert Bierstadt, Rembrandt Peale, John George Brown, Theresa Bernstein, Reginald Marsh, Rockwell Kent, Lyonel Feininger, Maxfield Parrish, Joseph C. Leyendecker, Frederic Remington, Maynard Dixon, Edward Borein, Carl Oscar Borg, Edgar Payne, Eanger Irving Couse, Joseph Henry Sharp, E. Martin Hennings, Joseph A. Imhof, Emil Bisttram, Leon Gaspard, Everett Shinn, John La Farge, William Trost Richards, Walter Launt Palmer, Emil Carlsen, William Alexander Coulter, Julius Tavernier and George Gardner Symons.