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Item Details
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| Heading: |
(Gershwin, George) |
| Author: |
Marie Harriman Gallery |
| Title: |
George Gershwin: Painter. 1898-1937 |
| Place: |
New York |
| Publisher: |
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| Date: |
1937 |
| Item # : |
197850 |
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| Sale Number |
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410 |
| Lot Number |
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98 |
| Sale Name |
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| Art, Illustrated & Photography Books - Fine Printing - Fine Books in All Fields |
| Sale Date |
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08/20/2009 |
| Price realized |
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$ 120 |
| includes 20% buyer's premium |
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| Description: |
| 6 pp. on 3-leaf conjugate fold. 2-page introduction by Frank Crowninshield. Listing of 39 paintings, drawings & watercolors by Gershwin. Tipped-in photograph of Gershwin painting. 9¾x7¾. |
| Rare brochure for an exhibit of paintings by the noted composer, who died in 1939 at age 39. He had taken up painting 8 years earlier. The exhibit was from December 18, 1937, to January 4, 1938, at the Marie Harriman Gallery. Ms. Harriman owned and operated the gallery from 1930 to 1942. Her first husband was Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney, her second W. Averell Harriman. |
| Condition: |
| Soiling to the cover leaf, very good. |
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