Catalogue of the Highly Important Collection of French Impressionist Paintings formed by the late William A. Cargill [ Sotheby & Co., auction catalogue, sale date: 11 June 1963 ]

Sotheby & Co., London, unillustrated auction catalogue for the sale held on 11th June 1963. Yellow printed wrappers, small 4to,. 31 pp. 49 lots. From Herrmann: 'Sotheby's Portrait of an Auction House': "Also in June there occurred the sale of the 'immensely important' collection of Impressionists of the late William Cargill of Carruth, Bridge of Weir, Scotland. In his collecting he had progressed cautiously from an early interest in Fantin- Latour (there was a group of eight flower paintings) and Corot, to Monet and Renoir, who were both still regarded as rather an advanced obsession in the 1920s. A Degas pastel, Danseuse Basculante, for which Cargill had paid £4,200 in 1928, now fetched £105,000, and Pissarro's Charing Cross Bridge of 1890, which had cost £2,600 in 1937, sold for £47,000. There were also four fine Renoirs, a Brittany Gauguin, two Monets, two Seurats and a Van Gogh." From the introduction - "Of the collections formed in Scotland in the past fifty years, the one described here is certainly the least known. William A. Cargill's brother David W. T. Cargill had a comparable collection.. William A. Cargill began by collecting nineteenth century Dutch paintings, but in the 1920's he replaced these with his first French purchases, the series of works by Fantin-Latour and Corot. With the help of Alexander Reid and Étienne Bignou, his interest in French painting developed further and led to the acquisition of the impressive examples by Degas and Renoir. Small sticker on front wrapper, otherwise Good. Several clippings of newspaper reports of the sale laid in.