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Galerie Bassenge: 19th - 21st Century Photography

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Auction Name 19th - 21st Century Photography Total Sales (EUR) 410,098.00
Auction Date December 02, 2020 - December 02, 2020 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR) 232,110.00
Sale Number #116 High Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR) 307,150.00
Total Lots 477
Sold Lots 280 Low Estimate of All Lots (EUR) 389,320.00
% of Lots Sold 58.70% High Estimate of All Lots (EUR) 514,300.00
Unsold Lots 197 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 79.74%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
4552 Baltz, Lewis

Corona del Mar, 1971 B, from "The Prototype Works".

1971 EUR 18,000.00 - 20,000.00 EUR 22,140.00
4061 Pavlov, Pjotr Petrovich

Group portrait of Anton Chekov reading his play "The Seagull" to actors of the Moscow Art Theatre Company.

1899 EUR 2,000.00 - 2,500.00 EUR 7,995.00
4039 Photographer/artist: Felice Beato (1832-1909) and Charles Wirgman (1832-1891).

Early album of types and scenes of Japanese life photographed by Felice Beato with reproductions of Charles Wirgman's watercolor scenes of Japanese life.

1863-65. EUR 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 EUR 7,380.00
4229 McBride, Will

Beim Morgen Duschen, Schule Schloß Salem.

1963/printed later. EUR 1,800.00 - 2,000.00 EUR 7,380.00
4536 Schmidt, Michael

Untitled (Stadtbild I).

1984 EUR 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 EUR 7,380.00
4078 Albin-Guillot, Laure

Micrographie décorative. Preface by M. Paul Léon. 20 multi-color photogravure plates circa 28,2 x 22 cm, printed on colored and metallic paper, in mats between guard sheets.

Paris, Draeger Frères, 1931 EUR 2,000.00 - 2,500.00 EUR 6,150.00
4079 Arbus, Diane

Woman carrying a child in Central Park, N.Y.C..

1956/printed 1986 by Neil Selkirk. EUR 5,000.00 - 6,000.00 EUR 6,150.00
4611 Fischli, Peter and David Weiss

Die mißbrauchte Zeit (Time abused).

1985 EUR 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 EUR 6,150.00
4029 Gloeden, Wilhelm von

Young male nude contemplating flower.

Circa 1900. EUR 1,200.00 - 1,500.00 EUR 5,658.00
4517 Koenig, Wilmar

Portraits 1981-1983.

EUR 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 EUR 5,658.00
4159 Goldin, Nan

Self-Portrait with Brian Having Sex, NYC.

1978/printed later. EUR 2,500.00 - 3,000.00 EUR 5,166.00
4570

Female standing nude with applied writing.

1991 EUR 500.00 - 750.00 EUR 4,674.00
4072 Siam, Java, Burma Photographers: Joaquim António (1857-1912), Kassian Céphas (1845-1912), Emil Eduard Groote (1870-1948), Joseph N. Johannes (c.1852-1919), Philippe Adolphe Klier (c.1843-1911), Ohannes Kurkdjan (1851-1903), Robert Lenz (1864-1939), and u

Views of landscapes, temples and natives of Siam.

1910 EUR 1,800.00 - 2,500.00 EUR 4,428.00
4190 Jones, Charles

Broad beans, Windsor.

Circa 1900. EUR 2,000.00 - 2,500.00 EUR 4,182.00
4583 Eggleston, William

Untitled, from "The Democratic Forest".

1980s. EUR 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 EUR 3,936.00
4206 Lartigue, Jacques-Henri

Bibi, Marseilles.

1928/printed 1980s. EUR 1,500.00 - 1,800.00 EUR 3,690.00
4218 Link, O. Winston

Hawksbill Creek Swimming Hole, Luray, Virginia, with No. @96 Northbound.

1956/printed 1991. EUR 2,200.00 - 2,500.00 EUR 3,690.00
4005 Beyer, Karol

Faubourg de Cracovie, Warsaw.

1860s. EUR 1,000.00 - 1,200.00 EUR 3,444.00
4073 Teynard, Félix [*] "Erment (Hermonthis)" from "Égypte.

Vue generales des ruins - Temple et Mammisi".

1852 EUR 2,800.00 - 3,500.00 EUR 3,444.00
4093 Becher, Bernd & Hilla

[*] "Wasserturm, Trier-Ehrang".

1982/printed 2009. EUR 2,400.00 - 2,500.00 EUR 3,444.00
4244 Parkinson, Norman

Adele Collins.

1959/printed late 1980s. EUR 1,800.00 - 2,500.00 EUR 3,198.00
4314

Documentation album of the British Royal Air Force 27 (B) Squadrons in India compiled shortly after the Third Anglo-Afghan War 1919.

EUR 300.00 - 500.00 EUR 3,198.00
4331 Wendlandt, Kurt

Turmfigur (Lichtgrafik/Original-Solarisation).

1959 (?). EUR 1,200.00 - 1,500.00 EUR 3,198.00
4502 Borchert, Christian

Selected images.

1977-1983. EUR 800.00 - 1,200.00 EUR 3,198.00
4233 Muthesius, Eckart Photographer: Eckart Muthesius.

Interiors of Manik Bagh Palace in India.

1933 EUR 2,500.00 - 3,000.00 EUR 3,075.00
  • 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.
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