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Rago Arts and Auctions: American and European Fine Art - Prints

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Auction Name American and European Fine Art - Prints Total Sales (USD) 69,552.00
Auction Date June 26, 2020 - June 26, 2020 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 46,800.00
Sale Number #62620 High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 67,900.00
Total Lots 28
Sold Lots 22 Low Estimate of All Lots (USD) 56,800.00
% of Lots Sold 78.57% High Estimate of All Lots (USD) 82,000.00
Unsold Lots 6 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 84.82%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
370 After Marc Chagall

Les Coquelicots

1949 USD 7,000.00 - 9,000.00 USD 15,600.00
367 Henri Matisse 1869 - 1954

Danseuse endormie au divan (from Dix danseuses)

1927 USD 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 USD 10,400.00
371 Pablo Picasso 1881 - 1973

Sculpteur et Deux Têtes Sculptées from the Vollard Suite

1933 / 1939 USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 5,625.00
373 Pablo Picasso 1881 - 1973

La Danse des Faunes

1957 USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 4,800.00
210 Paul Cadmus 1904 - 1999

Two Boys on Beach No. 2

1939 USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 4,375.00
366 Pablo Picasso 1881 - 1973

L'Inspiration Travaille et le Peintre se Tourne les Pouces

1967 USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 4,063.00
372 Pablo Picasso 1881 - 1973

Portrait de Jacqueline

1956 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 4,063.00
213 Paul Cadmus 1904 - 1999

Two PaJaMa images with letter

c. 1950 USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 USD 3,328.00
266 Dox Thrash 1893 - 1965

Coal Breaker or Breaker

c. 1943 / 1970/71 USD 1,800.00 - 2,400.00 USD 2,000.00
267 Dox Thrash 1893 - 1965

Twenty Fourth Street and Ridge Avenue

c. 1937-1939 USD 1,800.00 - 2,400.00 USD 2,000.00
271 Louis Lozowick 1892 - 1973

Still Life # 2 (Still Life with Apples)

1928 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 1,820.00
257 Thomas Hart Benton 1889 - 1975

Jesse and Jake

1942 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 1,664.00
129 Franz Kline 1910 - 1962

Sketchbook (from London)

USD 2,500.00 - 3,500.00 USD 1,375.00
384 Hartwell Yeargans 1915 - 2005

Royal Couple

1966 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 1,188.00
164 Edward Borein 1872 - 1945

Mission Santa Barbara No. 3

c. 1920 USD 700.00 - 900.00 USD 1,125.00
270 Gerald Geerlings 1897 - 1998

Grand Canal, America

1933 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 1,125.00
273 Paul Landacre 1893 - 1963

August Seventh

1936 USD 1,200.00 - 1,800.00 USD 1,063.00
394 James Lechay 1907 - 2001

Resting Nude

1987 USD 500.00 - 800.00 USD 938.00
255 Benton Spruance 1904 - 1967

From the Sea - Pieta

1943 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 875.00
256 Peter Hurd 1904 - 1984

Sermon from Revelations

1937 USD 600.00 - 800.00 USD 845.00
315 Bror Julius Olsson Nordfeldt 1878 - 1955

Santa Fe portfolio

USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 780.00
274 Michael Mazur 1935 - 2009

The Artist and Model portfolio

1968 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 500.00
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Fonsie Mealy’s
    Rare Book & Collectors Sale
    24th April 2024
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: McCarthy (Cormac). Cities of the Plain, N.Y., 1998, First Edn., signed on hf. title; together with Uncorrected Proof and Uncorrected Advance Reading Copies, both signed by the Author. €800 to €1,000.
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: Stanihurst (Richard). De Rebus in Hibernia Gestis, Libri Quattuor, sm. 4to Antwerp (Christi. Plantium) 1584. First Edn. €525 to €750.
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: Fleischer (Nat.) Jack Dempsey The Idol of Fistiana, An Intimate Narrative, N.Y., 1929, First Edn. Signed on f.e.p. by Rocky Marciano. €400 to €600.
    Fonsie Mealy’s
    Rare Book & Collectors Sale
    24th April 2024
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: Smith - Classical Atlas, Lond., 1820. Bound with, Smiths New General Atlas .. Principal Empires, Kingdoms, & States throughout the World, Lond. 1822. €350 to €500.
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: Rare Auction Catalogues – 1856: Bindon Blood, of Ennis, Co. Clare: Sotheby & Wilkinson. €320 to €450.
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: [Mavor (Wm.)] A General Collection of Voyages and Travels from the Discovery of America to the Commencement of the Nineteenth Century, 28 vols. (complete) Lond., 1810. €300 to €400.
    Fonsie Mealy’s
    Rare Book & Collectors Sale
    24th April 2024
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: Mc Carthy (Cormac). Outer Dark, N.Y. (Random House)1968, Signed by Mc Carthy. €250 to €300.
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: Three signed works by Ted Huges - Wodwo, 1967; Crow from the Life and Songs of the Crow, 1970; and Tales from Ovid, 1997. €200 to €300.
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: The Garden. An Illustrated Weekly Journal of Horticulture in all its Branches, 7 vols. lg. 4to Lond. 1877-1880. With 127 colored plates. €200 to €300.
    Fonsie Mealy’s
    Rare Book & Collectors Sale
    24th April 2024
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: Procter (Richard A.) Saturn and its System: Containing Discussions of The Motion (Real and Apparent)…, Lond. 1865. First Edn. €160 to €220.
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: [Ashe] St. George, Lord Bishop of Clogher, A Sermon Preached to the Protestants of Ireland, now in London,... Oct. 23, 1712, London 1712. Second Edn. €130 to €180.
  • Sotheby’s
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    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
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    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
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