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Swann Galleries: Vintage Posters

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Auction Name Vintage Posters Total Sales (USD) 624,485.00
Auction Date August 01, 2018 - August 01, 2018 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 477,300.00
Sale Number #2484 High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 698,150.00
Total Lots 608
Sold Lots 375 Low Estimate of All Lots (USD) 728,500.00
% of Lots Sold 61.68% High Estimate of All Lots (USD) 1,062,700.00
Unsold Lots 233 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 58.76%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
214 ALPHONSE MUCHA (1860-1939)

[TIMES OF THE DAY.] Group of four decorative panels.

1899 USD 40,000.00 - 60,000.00 USD 40,000.00
511 DESIGNER UNKNOWN

[SUTRO BATHS.]

1896 USD 12,000.00 - 18,000.00 USD 23,400.00
365 LEONETTO CAPPIELLO (1875-1942)

CARNAVAL / VINHO DO PORTO.

1911 USD 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 USD 18,750.00
207 ALPHONSE MUCHA (1860-1939)

BIÈRES DE LA MEUSE.

1897 USD 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 USD 17,500.00
108 DESIGNER UNKNOWN

KEEP CALM AND CARRY ON.

1939 USD 12,000.00 - 18,000.00 USD 12,500.00
294 MANUEL ORAZI (1860-1934)

LIGUE VINICOLE DE FRANCE.

Circa 1901. USD 6,000.00 - 9,000.00 USD 10,625.00
39 JAMES MONTGOMERY FLAGG (1870-1960)

I WANT YOU FOR U.S. ARMY.

1917 USD 7,000.00 - 10,000.00 USD 10,000.00
204 ALPHONSE MUCHA (1860-1939)

SALON DES CENT.

1896 USD 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 USD 10,000.00
97 GUSTAV KLUTSIS (1895-1938)

[LONG LIVE THE MULTIMILLION - MEMBER LENINIST KOMSOMOL.]

1932 USD 7,000.00 - 10,000.00 USD 9,375.00
215 ALPHONSE MUCHA (1860-1939)

OESTERREICH AUF DER WELTAUSSTELLUNG / PARIS 1900.

1899 USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 8,750.00
98 NIKOLAI ANDREEVICH DOLGORUKOV (1902-1980)

[WORKERS OF THE WORLD, UNITE! FOR THE WORLD IN OCTOBER!]

1932 USD 5,000.00 - 7,500.00 USD 6,750.00
219 ALPHONSE MUCHA (1860-1939)

MUCHA EXHIBITION / BROOKLYN MUSEUM.

1920 USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 USD 6,750.00
38 JAMES MONTGOMERY FLAGG (1870-1960)

WAKE UP, AMERICA! / CIVILIZATION CALLS.

1917 USD 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 USD 6,500.00
153 MARCELLO DUDOVICH (1878-1962)

MELE & CI. NAPOLI.

1908 USD 5,000.00 - 7,500.00 USD 6,500.00
216 ALPHONSE MUCHA (1860-1939)

KRAJINSK?? VYSTAVA V IVANCIC??CH.

1912 USD 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 USD 6,000.00
401 DESIGNER UNKNOWN

NORTH GERMAN LLOYD / NEW YORK - CHERBOURG - SOUTHAMPTON - BREMERHAVEN.

USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 5,750.00
164 PRIVAT ANTOINE THEODORE LIVEMONT (1861-1936)

[WOMAN READING LETTER.] Drawing in graphite and red conté crayon.

1902 USD 600.00 - 900.00 USD 5,250.00
156 PETER BEHRENS (1868-1940)

[DER KUSS.]

1898 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 5,000.00
326 CUNO AMIET (1868-1961)

BAHNHOF BÜFFET BASEL.

1921 USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 5,000.00
142 ARTHUR SZYK (1894-1951)

FOOL THE AXIS - USE PROPHYLAXIS.

1942 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 4,750.00
306 LUDWIG HOHLWEIN (1874-1949)

KATHREINER WEINE.

1913 USD 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 USD 4,750.00
574 PAUL COLIN (1892-1986)

ANDRÉ RENAUD.

1929 USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 4,500.00
390 LUCIANO ACHILLE MAUZAN (1883-1952)

CASA AMERICA.

1930 USD 2,500.00 - 3,500.00 USD 4,250.00
379 LUCIANO ACHILLE MAUZAN (1883-1952)

SODA BILZ.

1929 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 4,160.00
143 ARTHUR SZYK (1894-1951)

VD / AMERICAN SOLDIER COULD CATCH IT WITH EASE / BUT - PROPHYLAXIS PREVENTS DISEASE.

1943 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 4,000.00
  • Jeschke Jadi
    Auction 151
    Saturday, April 27, 2024
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 546. Christoph Jacob Trew. Plantae selectae, 1750-1773.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 70. Thomas Murner. Die Narren beschwerung. 1558.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 621. Michael Bernhard Valentini. Museum Museorum, 1714.
    Jeschke Jadi
    Auction 151
    Saturday, April 27, 2024
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 545. Sander Reichenbachia. Orchids illustrated and described, 1888-1894.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 1018. Marinetti, Boccioni, Pratella Futurism - Comprehensive collection of 35 Futurist manifestos, some of them exceptionally rare. 1909-1933.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 634. August Johann Rösel von Rosenhof. 3 Original Drawings, around 1740.
    Jeschke Jadi
    Auction 151
    Saturday, April 27, 2024
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 671. Jacob / Picasso. Chronique des Temps, 1956.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 1260. Mary Webb. Sarn. 1948. Lucie Weill Art Deco Binding.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 508. Felix Bonfils. 108 large-format photographs of Syria and Palestine.
    Jeschke Jadi
    Auction 151
    Saturday, April 27, 2024
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 967. Dante Aligheri and Salvador Dali. Divina Commedia, 1963.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 1316. Tolouse-Lautrec. Dessinateur. Duhayon binding, 1948.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 1303. Regards sur Paris. Braque, Picasso, Masson, 1962.
  • Sotheby’s
    Modern First Editions
    Available for Immediate Purchase
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: Winston Churchill. The Second World War. Set of First-Edition Volumes. 6,000 USD
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: A.A. Milne, Ernest H. Shepard. A Collection of The Pooh Books. Set of First-Editions. 18,600 USD
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: Salvador Dalí, Lewis Carroll. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. Finely Bound and Signed Limited Edition. 15,000 USD
    Sotheby’s
    Modern First Editions
    Available for Immediate Purchase
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: Ian Fleming. Live and Let Die. First Edition. 9,500 USD
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: J.K. Rowling. Harry Potter Series. Finely Bound First Printing Set of Complete Series. 5,650 USD
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell to Arms. First Edition, First Printing. 4,200 USD
  • Doyle, May 1: Thomas Jefferson expresses fears of "a war of extermination" in Saint-Dominigue. $40,000 to $60,000.
    Doyle, May 1: An exceptional presentation copy of Fitzgerald's last book, in the first issue dust jacket. $25,000 to $35,000.
    Doyle, May 1: The rare first signed edition of Dorian Gray. $15,000 to $25,000.
    Doyle, May 1: The Prayer Book of Jehan Bernachier. $10,000 to $15,000.
    Doyle, May 1: Van Dyck's Icones Principum Virorum Doctorum. $10,000 to $15,000.
    Doyle, May 1: The magnificent Cranach Hamlet in the deluxe binding by Dõrfner. $7,000 to $10,000.
    Doyle, May 1: A remarkable unpublished manuscript of a voyage to South America in 1759-1764. $3,000 to $5,000.
    Doyle, May 1: Bouchette's monumental and rare wall map of Lower Canada. $12,000 to $18,000.
    Doyle, May 1: An rare original 1837 abolitionist woodblock. $8,000 to $12,000.
    Doyle, May 1: An important manuscript breviary in Middle Dutch. $15,000 to $25,000.
    Doyle, May 1: An extraordinary Old Testament manuscript, circa 1250. $20,000 to $30,000.
  • Leland Little, Apr. 26: First Edition of Piccolomini's De La Sfera del Mondo (The Sphere of the World), 1540.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: First Edition of Vellutello's Commentary on Petrarch, With Map, 1525.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: Finely Bound Definitive, Illustrated Edition of I Promessi Sposi, 1840.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: Rare First Edition of John Milton's Latin Correspondence, 1674.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: Giolito's Edition of Boccaccio's The Decamerone, with Bedford Binding, 1542.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: First Edition of the First Biography of Marie of the Incarnation, with Rare Portrait, 1677.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: First Aldine Edition of Volume One of Cicero's Orationes, 1540.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: First Edition of Bonanni's Illustrated Costume Catalogue, with Complete Plates, 1711.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: An Important Incunable, the First Italian Edition of Josephus's De Bello Judaico, 1480.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: First Edition of Jacques Philippe d'Orville's Illustrated Book of the Ruins of Sicily, 1764.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: An Incunable from 1487, The Contemplative Life, with Early Manuscript.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: Ignatius of Loyola's Exercitia Spiritualia, 1563.
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