Collection Sedelmeyer, Signed (1 results)

Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Wraps. 2 vols. in folio, p. XVI-104, 138, many plates, allnprotected by tissues, . Ctalogue of a celebrated art auction. . Deluxe edition printed in only 300 copies on "japon" paper. Although unnumbered this appear to be one of 50 for presentation ("offert a") to one A C Guthrie and signed by/ for Boussod, Valadon in ink. The paper appears to be vellum. Original publisher's printed wraps. A few slight matks else sound VG with very clean text and plates. Pierre-Eugne Secrtan, (1836 Ð1899), was a French industrialist and art collector.He went bankrupt after an attempt to corner the market in copper. After the copper crash in March 1889, he sold his extended art collection in the Paris gallery of Charles Sedelmeyer after printing and publicizing a catalogue in French and English to attract American investors. He timed the sale to coincide with the peak of the Exposition Universelle (1889), exhibiting the Eiffel Tower, which attracted many wealthy Americans. A French-American bidding war during the auction on L'Anglus, a work by the popular French painter Jean-Franois Millet of the Barbizon school, forced the price up to a record-breaking amount of 553,000 francs by Antonin Proust, who was bidding for the Louvre.This books are very heavy, and delivery costs may be a consideration especially outside Britain. Very good. Signedes.