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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;moreotherstuff, post: 4539135, member: 56&quot;]Give away open to Well-Known members (participating members of long standing). All three catalogs as a single group.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]401688[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Offer ends Sunday evening (sometime), when we shall see what we shall see.</p><p><br /></p><p>3 single subject auction catalogs, all consisting of paintings by Turner. Each of the catalogs has a foldout color image of the painting(s), and some additional discussion of it. Obviously the single subject catalog is used for items considered to be of exceptional interest.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>J.M.W. Turner R.A.:Juliet and her Nurse</p><p>Sotheby Parke Bernet Inc, New York, May 29, 1980, Sale: 4384 (Lot 44)</p><p>A controversial painting in its day, the catalog includes contemporary criticisms, and Ruskin’s defence of it.</p><p>In an Argentinian Collection since this auction:</p><p><a href="http://art-turner.com/turner_1830_69.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://art-turner.com/turner_1830_69.html" rel="nofollow">http://art-turner.com/turner_1830_69.html</a></p><p>[ATTACH=full]401689[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]401690[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Two Important Paintings by J.M.W. Turner R.A.</p><p>Christie’s, New York, May 19, 1982, Sale: Venice (Lot 62 &amp; 63)</p><p><br /></p><p>Going to the Ball: San Martino, Venice</p><p>Returning from the Ball: S Martha, Venice</p><p>Turner painted 2 pair of Venice paintings with the same titles. One pair is in the Tate. Not sure where this pair is currently, but apparently they were painted a year after the Tate pair. The catalog discusses confusion between these various versions, and mentions controversy that these also elicited. </p><p><a href="https://www.turnerintottenham.uk/going-to-the-ball.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.turnerintottenham.uk/going-to-the-ball.html" rel="nofollow">https://www.turnerintottenham.uk/going-to-the-ball.html</a></p><p>[ATTACH=full]401691[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]401692[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]401693[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Joseph Mallord William Turner, R.A.: Landscape with Walton Bridges (Slip Cased)</p><p>Sotheby Parke Bernet Inc, New York, Oct 28, 1982, Sale: 4946 (1 lot)</p><p><br /></p><p>There is a discussion of how this fits in with Turner’s later works, and of its provinence. (Re-sold by Sotheby’s in 2019)</p><p><a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/auctions/ecatalogue/2019/old-master-evening-l19033/lot.11.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/auctions/ecatalogue/2019/old-master-evening-l19033/lot.11.html" rel="nofollow">https://www.sothebys.com/en/auctions/ecatalogue/2019/old-master-evening-l19033/lot.11.html</a></p><p>[ATTACH=full]401694[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]401695[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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