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Sothebys: Important Prints and Multiples Day Sale

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Auction Name Important Prints and Multiples Day Sale Total Sales (USD) 2,389,464.00
Auction Date October 23, 2020 - October 23, 2020 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 1,431,800.00
Sale Number #N10448 High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 2,082,700.00
Total Lots 175
Sold Lots 139 Low Estimate of All Lots (USD) 1,838,800.00
% of Lots Sold 79.43% High Estimate of All Lots (USD) 2,670,700.00
Unsold Lots 36 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 89.47%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
296 ANDY WARHOL

MICK JAGGER (F. & S. II.139)

1975 USD 30,000.00 - 50,000.00 USD 119,700.00
297 ANDY WARHOL

MICK JAGGER (F. & S. II.147)

1975 USD 30,000.00 - 50,000.00 USD 113,400.00
302 ANDY WARHOL

ALBERT EINSTEIN (F. & S. II.229)

1980 USD 35,000.00 - 45,000.00 USD 100,800.00
290 PAT STEIR

TRIPTYCH SNAKE

2008 USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 USD 60,480.00
251 ROY LICHTENSTEIN

CRYING GIRL (CORLETT II.1)

1963 USD 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 USD 56,700.00
186 PABLO PICASSO

L'HOMME À LA GUITARE (B. 30)

1915 USD 25,000.00 - 35,000.00 USD 50,400.00
194 PABLO PICASSO

TÊTE DE FEMME NO 4. PORTRAIT DE DORA MAAR (B. 2021; BA. 652)

1939 USD 40,000.00 - 60,000.00 USD 44,100.00
203 PABLO PICASSO

DANAÉ (B. 1084; BA. 1286)

1962 USD 30,000.00 - 50,000.00 USD 44,100.00
205 PABLO PICASSO

FEMME TORERO. DERNIER BAISER? (B. 1329; BA. 425C)

1934 USD 40,000.00 - 50,000.00 USD 37,800.00
259 GLENN LIGON

RUNAWAYS

1993 USD 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 USD 37,800.00
306 ANDY WARHOL

SIGMUND FREUD (F. & S. II.235)

1980 USD 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 USD 35,280.00
245 ELLSWORTH KELLY

COLOR SQUARES I

2011 USD 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 USD 32,760.00
264 JOAN MITCHELL

SIDES OF A RIVER II

1981 USD 7,000.00 - 10,000.00 USD 27,720.00
305 ANDY WARHOL

GOLDA MEIR (F. & S. II.233)

1980 USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 USD 27,720.00
153 MARC CHAGALL

THE NYMPH'S CAVE (M. 321; SEE C. BKS. 46)

1961 USD 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 USD 25,200.00
182 JOAN MIRÓ

LE CRACHEUR DE FLAMMES (D. 650)

1974 USD 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 USD 25,200.00
187 PABLO PICASSO

LES TROIS FEMMES (B. 51; BA. 68)

1924-25 USD 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 USD 25,200.00
202 PABLO PICASSO

PICADOR ET TORERO (B. 906; BA. 1231)

1959 USD 25,000.00 - 35,000.00 USD 25,200.00
216 JOSEF ALBERS

SOFT EDGE - HARD EDGE (DANILOWITZ 165)

1965 USD 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 USD 25,200.00
230 DAMIEN HIRST

COVENANT

2013 USD 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 USD 25,200.00
263 JOAN MITCHELL

FLOWER III

1981 USD 7,000.00 - 10,000.00 USD 25,200.00
255 ROY LICHTENSTEIN

UNTITLED (STILL LIFE WITH LEMON AND GLASS) (C. 134)

1974 USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 USD 23,940.00
278 ROBERT RAUSCHENBERG

SLING-SHOTS LIT #5

1985 USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 USD 23,940.00
311 CHRISTOPHER WOOL

BLACK BOOK

1989 USD 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 USD 23,940.00
180 JOAN MIRÓ

LES PERSEIDES (MOURLOT 656-660)

1970 USD 15,000.00 - 25,000.00 USD 22,680.00
  • Potter & Potter Auctions
    How History Unfolds on Paper:
    Choice Selections from the Eric C. Caren Collection
    Part IX
    April 18, 2024
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: [RUTH, George Herman “Babe” (1895-1948)]. Signed photograph. Circa 1930s. 191 x 248 mm. $1,500 to $2,500.
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: HARRISON, Benjamin. Document signed (“Benj Harrison”) as governor of Virginia, certifying the service of Daniel Cumbo, a Black Revolutionary soldier. $6,000 to $9,000.
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: ONE OF THE FIRST PRINTED ANNOUNCEMENTS OF THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE. $4,000 to $6,000.
    Potter & Potter Auctions
    How History Unfolds on Paper:
    Choice Selections from the Eric C. Caren Collection
    Part IX
    April 18, 2024
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: FIRST PRINTING OF LINCOLN’S IMMORTAL GETTYSBURG ADDRESS. $4,000 to $6,000.
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: HIGHLY IMPORTANT MORMON ARCHIVE. ALLEY, George. Archive of 23 Autograph Letters Signed by Mormon Convert George Alley to His Brother Joseph Alley. $10,000 to $20,000.
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: [AVIATION]. [ARMSTRONG, Neil A.] Aviation Hall of Fame Gold Medal MS64 NGC, Awarded to Neil Armstrong in 1979. $2,000 to $3,000.
    Potter & Potter Auctions
    How History Unfolds on Paper:
    Choice Selections from the Eric C. Caren Collection
    Part IX
    April 18, 2024
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: NEWLY DISCOVERED FIRST PRINTING OF "WITH MALICE TOWARDS NONE... " FROM THE ONLY NEWSPAPER ACTUALLY ALLOWED TO PARTICIPATE IN LINCOLN’S SECOND INAUGURAL PROCESSION. $4,000 to $8,000.
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: THE MOST IMPORTANT GEORGE WASHINGTON DOCUMENT IN PRIVATE HANDS; GEORGE WASHINGTON’S COMMISSION AS COMMANDER IN CHIEF, 1775, ONE OF ONLY TWO ORIGINALS. $150,000 to $250,000.
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: A VERY RARE ACCOUNT OF BLACKBEARD’S DEATH AND ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT PIRATE ITEMS EXTANT. $3,000 to $5,000.
    Potter & Potter Auctions
    How History Unfolds on Paper:
    Choice Selections from the Eric C. Caren Collection
    Part IX
    April 18, 2024
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: EDISON, Thomas. Patent for Edison’s Improvements on the Electric-Light, No. 219,628. [Washington, D.C.: U.S. Patent Office], 16 September 1879. $2,000 to $3,000.
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: [VIETNAM WAR]. The original pen used by Secretary of State William P. Rogers to sign the Vietnam Peace Agreement, Paris, 27 January 1973. $10,000 to $15,000.
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: SONS OF LIBERTY FOUNDER COLONEL BARRÉ ANNOTATED TITLE-PAGE, “WHICH OUGHT TO ROUSE UP BRITISH ATTENTION”. $4,000 to $6,000.
  • Forum Auctions
    Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    28th March 2024
    Forum Mar. 28: [Langland (William)]. The vision of Pierce Plowman, nowe the seconde time imprinted..., Roberte Crowley, 1550. £8,000 to £10,000.
    Forum Mar. 28: [Shakespeare (William)]. [Comedies, Histories, and Tragedies], second folio edition, [by Tho.Cotes, for Robert Allot], [1632]. £30,000 to £40,000.
    Forum Mar. 28: Bible, Czech Biblia Bohemica, first complete Bible printed in the Czech vernacular, Prague, August 1488. £30,000 to £40,000.
    Forum Auctions
    Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    28th March 2024
    Forum Mar. 28: Shabthai Tzvi.- Collection of four printed and illustrated broadsides detailing the appearance, rise and fall of the false messiah, Shabthai Tzvi, Augsburg, 1666-67. £40,000 to £60,000.
    Forum Mar. 28: Leaf from the Beauvais Missal, in Latin, illuminated manuscript on parchment, [Northern France (perhaps Beauvais or Amiens)], [fourteenth century (c.1310)]. £4,000 to £6,000.
    Forum Mar. 28: Aubrey (John). [Remaines of Gentilisme and Judaisme], manuscript in English, Latin and Greek, [c. 1693]. £30,000 to £50,000.
    Forum Auctions
    Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    28th March 2024
    Forum Mar. 28: Byron (George Gordon Noel, Lord). Poems on Various Occasions, first edition, Harriet Maltby's copy, Newark, Printed by S. & J. Ridge, 1807. £30,000 to £40,000.
    Forum Mar. 28: Tolkien (J.R.R.) The Hobbit, first edition, second impression with dust-jacket, 1937 [but 1938]. £7,000 to £10,000.
    Forum Mar. 28: Blake (William).- Thornton (Robert John). The Pastorals of Virgil, 2 vol., engraved plates by William Blake, 1821. £8,000 to £12,000.
    Forum Auctions
    Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    28th March 2024
    Forum Mar. 28: America.- Mount (William J.) & Thomas Page. The English Pilot…, [bound with] The Fourth Book, describing The West Indies Navigation from Hudson's-Bay to the River Amazones, 1721. £20,000 to £30,000.
    Forum Mar. 28: Oldfield (Henry Ambrose), Rajman Singh Chitrakar & others. An album of 160 photographs and 13 original artworks, (1833-1919), [c. 1850s-1880s]. £20,000 to £30,000.
    Forum Mar. 28: Audubon (John James) [and William MacGillivray]. Ornithological Biography…, 5 vol., first edition, presentation copy inscribed by Audubon, Edinburgh, 1831-49 [i.e. 1831-39]. £10,000 to £15,000.
  • 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
  • Bonhams, Mar. 22 – Apr. 2: A RUTH BADER GINSBURG BEADED JUDICIAL COLLAR. $80,000 - $120,000
    Bonhams, Mar. 22 – Apr. 2: ONLY KNOWN COPY OF THE ONLY BOOK BY THE REMARKABLE EVE ADAMS. $8,000 - $12,000
    Bonhams, Mar. 22 – Apr. 2: A COMPLETE RUN OF VISIONAIRE MAGAZINE THROUGH 2010. $6,000 - $9,000
    Bonhams, Mar. 22 – Apr. 2: LAW REVIEW OFFPRINT SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY RUTH BADER GINSBURG. $3,000 - $5,000
    Bonhams, Mar. 22 – Apr. 2: META REBNER'S WORKING SCRIPT OF THE LOVED ONE. $1,500 - $2,000
    Bonhams, Mar. 22 – Apr. 2: A KATHY GROVE PORTRAIT OF CYNDI LAUPER FOR THE FEBRUARY 1989 DETAILS COVER. $800 - $1,200
    Bonhams, Mar. 22 – Apr. 2: A PLASTIC COAT BY MILLIE DAVID FEATURED IN SOHO NEWS STYLE SECTION, FROM THE COLLECTION OF ANNIE FLANDERS. $500 - $700
    Bonhams, Mar. 22 – Apr. 2: A RUTH BADER GINSBURG JEWELRY BOX. $600 - $900
    Bonhams, Mar. 22 – Apr. 2: A SET OF JONI MITCHELL LYRICS FOR "IF I HAD A HEART." $2,000 - $3,000
  • 19th Century Shop
    Catalogue 198 just published
    19th Century Shop. Darwin and Wallace, first printing of the first paper on natural selection
    19th Century Shop. Shakespeare’s Poems, first collected edition
    19th Century Shop. Walt Whitman portrait inscribed with a Leaves of Grass poem
    19th Century Shop. Major Elizabeth Barrett Browning manuscript notebook
    19th Century Shop. Spock's Baby Book, original MS
    19th Century Shop. Cellarius, Harmonia Macrocosmica, the great celestial atlas
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