Description
Butterfield & Butterfield, Published 1988. Wraps, [160] pp (unpaginated); 28 cm; illustrated with black-and-white photographs and color plates.
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Condition & notes
In good condition. Illustrated paper covers show mild to moderate shelf wear with light bumping and creasing to edges and corners, and some color loss along the front cover, heavier along the edges and spine; plain pale yellow rear cover shows light soiling, scattered spotting and color loss along the edges. Binding tight. Old brown staining to the lower fore-corner of the first several leaves, heaviest at the Guide for Prospective Buyers, not touching text or plates. Hammer prices annotated in pencil beside the estimates throughout, including 110,000 beside the Guy Rose. No prices realized sheet. Pages otherwise unmarked. Auction catalogue for Butterfield & Butterfield sale 3983P, held in two sessions on October 6, 1988, conducted simultaneously in San Francisco and Los Angeles, lots 4001 to 4360. Lot 4153 is Guy Rose's THE END OF THE DAY (La Fin de la Journee), signed and dated Paris 1891 and nearly eight feet wide, with a full page of catalogue text: painted at Crecy, France in 1890, shown at the Paris Salon of 1891 and the World's Columbian Exposition of 1892, illustrated in THE ART OF THE WORLD (D. Appleton, 1894), and a contemporary Los Angeles Herald review quoted at length from the Rose Family Archives. Estimated 150,000/250,000, the highest in the sale. Also Grace Carpenter Hudson, William Keith LOOKING DOWN THE COLUMBIA RIVER, Eliza Barchus, a Percy Gray group, and a pair of Joseph Kleitsch Paris canvases from the Estate of Muriel Flint Treat.