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Old Masters: Including European Works of Art / The Dealer's Eye: A Selection of Master Paintings 3 Volumes
2006182019New York: Sotheby's 2006. Softcover. G/ VG- slip cover has tear in top and shows shelf wear at corners and spine - three volumes may show minor shelf wear at corners otherwise all pages clear and intact. Gold illustrated cardboard stip cover with beige lettering containing three volumes: 1. Important Master Paintings and the Borromeo Madonna by Donatello Vol. I - gray and color illustrated wraps with white lettering and gray spine 228 pp. color illustrations throughout / 2. Old Master Paintings Including European Works of Art Vol. II - gray and color illustrated wraps with black cover lettering gray and purple spine with white lettering 320 pp. color illustrations throughout / 3. The Dealer's Eye: A Selection of Master Paintings - brown paper wraps with black embossed lettering on cover and spine 176 pp. color illustrations throughout. Auction catalogues corresponding to Sotheby's auctions from January 26th and 27th 2006. <br/>"The Dealer's Eye is a new and unique intiative of Sotheby's and the internationl Old Master dealers. It is a collaboration of art dealers and auctioneers friends and competitors. Private dealers have always used the auction houses as a source from which to procure artworks but they also considered it a means to sell their stock through. In the latter case it often concerned a less prestigious category of works and sensibly the immediate provenance of the works was not mentioned in the catalogue for sale. The art dealers have contributed well and take price in accompanying their consignments with their names. But there is more. Each of the paintings is impeccable clean and if necessary restored beautifully varnished and framed. Moreover Sotheby's has formed a team of independent connoisseurs including a restorer which has scrutinized the paintings similar to the practice at great international art fairs . The paintings in this auction cover a wide span of art history ranging from the fourteenth century to the nineteenth. Furthermore they represent various national schools. Statistically the emphasis is on Italian painting and above all on painting of the Dutch Golden Age." - from the introduction of The Dealer's Eye. Sotheby's unknown books
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