Collection Fénéon, Deuxième Vente: Tableaux Modernes, Dessins, Aquarelles, Gouaches. Pastels… dont la vente aux enchères...
Many black & white illus. 70, [1] p. 4to (270 x 213 mm.), brown printed semi-stiff wrappers. Paris: 1947.
The rare auction catalogue for the second 1947 Fénéon sale. This large-format catalogue is extensively illustrated unlike the first catalogue from April. Fénéon’s widow died in April 1946, precipitating a series of sales the following year. In accordance with the Fénéon’s wishes, the proceeds from the auctions were used to establish a prize for “a young writer, painter, or sculptor, 35 or under, in a modest situation.”
“For some fifty years, from the beginning of his career in the 1880s until... More