Auction day for the items in this catalogue was March 4, 1976, from 10:15am to 2pm.  The walk-thru exhibition was from February 27 to March 3.  The catalogue measures approx 8.75 in x 9.25 in.

980 Madison Avenue (also known as the Parke-Bernet Galleries building) is a building located at Madison Avenue and East 76th Street on the Upper East Side of Manhattan in New York City. It served as the headquarters of Parke-Bernet Galleries from its opening on November 10, 1949 to its sale in 1987.

On June 9, 1987, Sotheby Parke-Bernet announced that it was closing the galleries, causing an uproar in the New York City art community. Klaus Perls, a German art dealer, said ''I am shattered by the news. I thought that Sotheby's was the greatest asset to the art market in New York that could be imagined.