Dealer Records :

Castano Galleries, Boston

Title
Castano Galleries, Boston

Record
Castano Galleries records
30 microfilm reels: reels 4827-4856

Description
The gallery opened in 1931 and specialised in restoration and the sale of European and American art. The records consist of gallery documents and some personal papers of Giovanni Castano (1907-83). Castano was an agent for Wildenstein and Co.

Location of Record
Archives of American Art,
Smithsonian Institution
Washington DC Research Center Suite 2200
750 9th St. NW
Washington DC
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Archives of American Art
Smithsonian Institution
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Victor Building, Room 2200, MRC 937
Washington, DC 20013-7012

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Source
Smithsonian Institution Research Information System

<http://www.siris.si.edu/>, accessed 3 January 2003.

N.H. Yeide, K. Akinsha, A.L. Walsh (eds.), AAM Guide to Provenance Research, Washington 2001, p. 219.