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Christie's East, New York, 1991. Wraps, [104] pp. (unpaginated); 27 cm; illustrated with black-and-white photographs, one color plate, color pictorial covers; index of artists.
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Condition & notes
In Good condition. Glossy illustrated paper covers with light bumping, increasing to edges and corners. Mild to moderate shelf wear, with scuffing and scratches (heaviest on dark green rear cover) and some color loss along edges and at and near spine. Binding tight (staple bound). Pages mildly toned along edges, otherwise unmarked; absentee bid form at rear uncut and unused. No prices-realized list. Auction catalogue for Christie's East's sale of American paintings, drawings, watercolors and sculpture held in New York on November 14, 1991 (sale code DAN-7253), 461 lots in morning and afternoon sessions, each with medium, dimensions, provenance or literature where known, and estimate. Consignors include the Chrysler Museum, Norfolk; the Cooper-Hewitt National Museum of Design (portraits attributed to Asher B. Durand, formerly in the Smithsonian's National Collection of Fine Arts); the Trustees of the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden (including Joseph Stella's 1938 Portrait of Eilshemius from Joseph H. Hirshhorn's collection); and the estates of Charles Edison, Victor D. Spark and others. Lots include a cast of Frederic Remington's bronze "The Cheyenne" (illustrated in color), Ralph Earl's 1788 portrait of Elizabeth Van Horne, drawings by George Caleb Bingham and Eastman Johnson, and a carved frame by Boris Lovet-Lorski made for a Salvador Dali painting now in the Prado. The index of artists also lists Mary Cassatt, Charles Demuth, Charles Burchfield, Marsden Hartley, Reginald Marsh and David Burliuk. Front cover reproduces lot 119, Arthur E. Becher's Baby's First Christmas.