Tableaux Modernes, Signed (4 results)

Condition: Good. Auction catalogue. Wraps. Unpaginated [120] pp. Ill. black & white & color. Dessins, Aquarelles, Gouaches. Degas, Lanskoy, Leger, Renoir. Autographes. Chopin, Dumas, Liszt. Dessins et Tableaux. VG.

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.

40 pp. Late 19th-cent. aubergine morocco-backed marbled boards, spine gilt. Paris: Paillet, Narjot, Moisnel, & Bénard, 1820. An interesting and rare catalogue for an auction that dispersed the collection and studio contents of the prodigious painter Pau de Saint Martin (1751-1820). He studied with J.B. Leprince and Vernet, then exhibited frequently at the Salon. He produced a great number of landscapes of France, especially Normandy, and Switzerland. His son, Pierre Alexandre, also a painter, signed his pieces similarly to his father, leading to some confusion. This catalogue lists a total of 286 lots, a number of which are large group lots. It begins with 173 lots of paintings, with works by Asselijn, Brauwer, Canaletto, Cuyp, Dou, Hoet, I. & F. Moucheron, Miel, van Poelenburgh, Ruysdael, Wouwerman, F. Boucher, Coypel, both Fragonards, Drolling, Landon, Leprince, Oudry, both Pau de Saint Martins, Watteau, etc. We also find an impressive number of drawings and prints, many of which were in portfolios. A fine copy. Unidentified 19th-century engraved bookplate above the engraved bookplate of Georges Pannier (1853-1944), the art dealer and collector of auction catalogues, on the front paste-down, and stamp of the Bibliothèque Heim on verso of title. ? Lugt 9884. Oxford Art online.

Couverture souple. Condition: Bon. Edition originale. Grand In-8° broché, 134 pages - envoi autographe de l'auteur COPY SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR - Page de garde. Dédicacé par l'auteur.