Author: American Art Association - Kirby, Thomas E
Title: Catalogue Of Mr George I Seney's Collection Of Modern Paintings To Be Sold At Auction, Tuesday, Wednesday And Thursday, March 31st, April 1st And 2nd, at Half Past Seven O'Clock, P.M. At Chickering Hall, 5th Avenue, Corner Of 18th Street
Description: American Art Association, New York, 1885, 1st edition. Cloth, G+. 112pp, all edges gilt, prices realised for the entire sale in blue pencil, along with a note explaining that Breton's 'Evening in the Hamlet of Finistère' which sold for $18200 was the most expensive painting ever to be sold at auction in New York, upper cover creased & gutter repaired, slightly rubbed. Hardback , no dustjacket. ¶ Sale catalogue for the first of two auctions held to dispose of the art collection of the New York City banker George Ingraham Seney [ 1826 - 1893 ]. As president of the Metropolitan Bank, when the bank failed he was forced to sell his extensive collection of mainly pre-Impressionist 19th-century European and American paintings.

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