Ten Paintings from The Chester Beatty Collection, 28th June 1967

Artists: Johan Bartold Jongkind, Camille Corot, Claude Monet, Camille Pissarro, Alfred Sisley, Pablo Picasso, Stanislas Lepine. 
Author: Various 
Publisher: Sotheby's 
Date: 28th June 1967 
Condition: Barring a very light vertical crease, this catalogue is in very good condition, the cover is clean and shows only a tiny amount of fading to the spine and inside is unmarked.

Although this slim catalogue seems rather unassuming from the outside, there are riches within! A sale of just ten Impressionist paintings (well, nine and a very early Picasso), these very impressive works were being sold from the collection of Sir Alfred Chester Beatty (1875-1968), 'the King of Copper'. A New Yorker by birth, Beatty made a fortune during his lifetime and spent much of it on his collecting across innumerable fields. Manuscripts, papyri, books, furniture, paintings, drawings, Chinese works of art; all these and more attracted his attention.

Beatty had family roots in Ireland, and in 1950, at the age of 75, he relocated to Dublin, spending the rest of his life between there and the south of France. He established the Chester Beatty Library to house his collection (now in Dublin Castle) and was a major benefactor of several institutions and collections with many of his paintings now hanging in the National Gallery of Ireland.