Christies: Maurice Sendak: Artist, Collector, Connoisseur Online, 23979, New York

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Auction Date
June 12, 2025 - June 12, 2025
Page Size: 74 items in 3 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
101 ALBRECHT DURER (1471-1528)

St. Christopher Facing Right

1521 USD 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 USD 11,340.00
102 GIOVANNI BATTISTA PIRANESI (1720-1778)

The Gothic Arch, from Carceri d'invenzione

circa 1749-1750 USD 1,000.00 - 2,000.00 USD 7,560.00
103 HENRY FUSELI (1741-1825)

A Woman Sitting by the Window (Evening Thou Bringest All), from Specimens of Polyautography

1802 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 3,528.00
104 GEORGE RICHMOND (1809-1896)

The Shepherd - Christ the Good Shepherd

1827 USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 11,340.00
105 GEORGE RICHMOND (1809-1896)

The Fatal Bellman

1827 USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 6,048.00
106 EDWARD CALVERT (1799-1883)

A Memoir of Edward Calvert: Four Plates

1829 USD 700.00 - 1,000.00 USD 5,292.00
107 SAMUEL PALMER (1805-1881)

The Skylark

1850 USD 1,200.00 - 1,800.00 USD 3,528.00
108 SAMUEL PALMER (1805-1881)

The Rising Moon or An English Pastoral

1857 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 1,386.00
109 SAMUEL PALMER (1805-1881)

The Early Ploughman or The Morning Spread upon the Mountains

circa 1861 USD 1,800.00 - 2,500.00 USD 1,386.00
110 WILLIAM BLAKE (1757-1827), illustrator -- EDWARD YOUNG (1683-1765), author

The Complaint, and The Consolation; or Night Thoughts.

London: 1797 USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 3,024.00
111 WILLIAM BLAKE (1757-1827)

Illustrations to Dante's Divine Comedy

1827 USD 3,500.00 - 4,500.00 USD 2,772.00
112 WILLIAM BLAKE (1757-1827)

Mr. Cumberland

1827 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 7,560.00
113 AFTER JOHN JAMES AUDUBON (1785-1851), BY ROBERT HAVELL (1793-1878)

Tropic Bird (Plate CCLXII) Phaeton aetherus

circa 1835 USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 5,292.00
114 AFTER JOHN JAMES AUDUBON (1785-1851), BY ROBERT HAVELL (1793-1878)

Fulmar Petrel (Plate CCLXIV) Procellaria glacialis

circa 1835 USD 1,200.00 - 1,800.00 USD 378.00
115 AFTER JOHN JAMES AUDUBON (1785-1851), BY ROBERT HAVELL (1793-1878)

Great Tern (Plate CCCIX) Sterna hirundo

circa 1836 USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 USD 1,638.00
116 AFTER JOHN JAMES AUDUBON (1785-1851), BY ROBERT HAVELL (1793-1878)

Dusky Albatros (Plate CCCCVII) Diomedea fusca

circa 1838 USD 1,200.00 - 1,800.00 USD 4,032.00
117 JOHANN HEINRICH FUSSLI, HENRY FUSELI, R.A. (1741-1825)

A Witch at Work

USD 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 USD 6,930.00
118 SAMUEL PALMER, R.W.S. (1805-1881)

Landscape sketch

[18]59. USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 USD 2,142.00
119 RANDOLPH CALDECOTT (1846-1886)

Sketch of a cavalry charge

USD 500.00 - 800.00 Not Sold
120 DAVID COX, SEN., O.W.S. (1783-1859)

A figure before the Upper Gate, Conway Castle, North Wales

USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 882.00
121 FELIX VALLOTTON (1865-1925)

Le Joyeux Quartier Latin

1895 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 2,142.00
122 FELIX VALLOTTON (1865-1925)

La Manifestation

1895 USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 4,032.00
123 FELIX VALLOTTON (1865-1925)

La Nuit

1895 USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 3,528.00
124 FELIX VALLOTTON (1865-1925)

Le Violoncelle, from Instruments de Musique

1896 USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 5,670.00
125 FELIX VALLOTTON (1865-1925)

Le Piano, from Instruments de Musique

1896 USD 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 USD 4,410.00
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