Oh, well doesn't THAT suck with a curly straw.
So there haven't been any interesting Evans prints on eBay or my usual auction haunts in a while. No matter; I've had other stuff going on and haven't thought about it in a while. There have been a few that have gone up but that really weren't my thing.
What I HAVE been looking for are the folios of the State Flowers collection, and the Foundation folio. Both are looseleafed books, hand-printed, limited edition; State Flowers was 1500, I think, and the Foundation folio might have been 500, or maybe I have the order wrong. Anyway, the library at the Santa Barbara Botanical Garden has them both, so I have seen them. Breathtaking. I WANT. But most of those are in collectors' archives and I will probably never own one. So I keep looking for the State Flower series prints in singles, to add to my collection. I don't have a SINGLE ONE yet. Everyone knows how much more those command and that there's several of us who are looking so the prices go up quick.
And THEN PBA Galleries of San Francisco puts two lots up. One of ten, one of fifteen.
The set of ten is various flowers, some of which are from the Foundation folio. One of them is a set of green daffodils from 1969. Somewhere in my family, there's a set of yellow ones. WANT. There's also three different water lilies and a MADRONE, DAMMIT, and a chrysanthemum, always my favorites, ohgodpleasekillme.
The set of fifteen is all from the State Flowers collection. Loose, not folio-attached, but they're there. One of them has the Wyoming one that I love to death (Indian Paintbrush, so pretty, the red he used is amazing) and a MAGNOLIA!!!! I don't have a SINGLE ONE out of those collections. I could - BANG! - have fifteen of them, two of them favorites, if I were to win.
Each lot is starting at $500 and $750, respectively.
I expect that some collector is going to drive the price into the stratosphere and I won't get a shot.
I can't afford them right now anyway. I mean, I could, if...ugh.
Someday, I shall win the lottery.
