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Auction Name Prints and Editions Total Sales (GBP) 506,188.00
Auction Date September 29, 2021 - September 29, 2021 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP) 294,050.00
Sale Number #1088 High Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP) 412,200.00
Total Lots 300
Sold Lots 162 Low Estimate of All Lots (GBP) 481,150.00
% of Lots Sold 54.00% High Estimate of All Lots (GBP) 678,300.00
Unsold Lots 138 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 74.63%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
56 Marc Chagall (1887-1985)

The rare and important set of copper plates for the etchings, 1925-26, the edition printed by Louis Fort and Paul Haasen, each circa

1925-26 GBP 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 GBP 50,920.00
273 Harland Miller (b.1964)

Fuck Art Let's Dance & Fuck Dancing Let's Fuck

2011 GBP 25,000.00 - 35,000.00 GBP 50,920.00
260 David Hockney (b.1937)

Untitled No.346, from A bigger book: Art edition B

2010/2016 GBP 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 GBP 25,460.00
161 Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) (after)

L'Arlequin et sa Compagne

c.1960 GBP 12,000.00 - 15,000.00 GBP 21,440.00
261 David Hockney (b.1937)

Rain on the Studio Window

2009 GBP 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 GBP 17,420.00
200 Keith Haring (1958-1990)

Icons. Angel (See Litmann p.171)

1990 GBP 14,000.00 - 16,000.00 GBP 16,900.00
7 Rembrandt van Rijn (1606-1669)

The Descent from the Cross: Second Plate [sixth state]

1633 GBP 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 GBP 15,600.00
263 David Hockney (b.1937)

White Lines Dancing in Printing Ink

1990 GBP 12,000.00 - 16,000.00 GBP 13,400.00
6 Rembrandt van Rijn (1606-1669)

The Descent from the Cross: Second Plate [eighth state]

1633 GBP 7,000.00 - 10,000.00 GBP 13,000.00
256 David Hockney (b.1937)

Bowl of Fruit (MCA Tokyo 299)

1986 GBP 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 GBP 11,390.00
143 Joan Miró (1893-1983)

Le Lézard aux Plumes d'Or (Mourlot 828)

1971 GBP 4,500.00 - 5,500.00 GBP 9,380.00
162 Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) (after)

Le Clown et l'Harlequin (Czwiklitzer p.437)

1971 GBP 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 GBP 9,380.00
255 David Hockney (b.1937)

Walking, June (MCA Tokyo 304)

1986 GBP 7,000.00 - 9,000.00 GBP 8,710.00
150 Pablo Picasso (1881-1973)

Le Bellier (Blcoh 349, Baer 579 II A/C)

1936 GBP 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 GBP 8,040.00
32 Claude Monet (1840-1926) & George William Thornley (1875-1935)

Fillette dans l'allée d'un Parc, Portant des Bouquets

1894 GBP 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 GBP 7,800.00
154 Pablo Picasso (1881-1973)

Les Ménines et la Vie (Bloch 857, Cramer 97)

1958 GBP 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 GBP 7,370.00
249 Damien Hirst (b.1965)

Opium

2000 GBP 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 GBP 6,700.00
149 Pablo Picasso (1881-1973)

La Sauterelle (Blcoh 358, Baer 605 II A/C)

1936 GBP 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 GBP 6,030.00
5 Rembrandt van Rijn (1606-1669)

Self Portrait with Saskia

1636 GBP 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 GBP 5,850.00
140 Henri Matisse (1869-1954)

(Duthuit 653)

1950-51 GBP 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 GBP 5,360.00
156 Pablo Picasso (1881-1973)

Le Pigeonneau (Bloch 326)

1939 GBP 3,500.00 - 4,500.00 GBP 5,360.00
9 Rembrandt van Rijn (1606-1669)

The Presentation in the Temple: Oblong Plate

drypoint and engraving GBP 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 GBP 4,550.00
21 Anton Boys (or Antoni Waiss,

Festival tournament with jousting, musicians and spectators in stands behind, pen and ink

GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00 GBP 4,550.00
28 Edgar Degas (1834-1917) after by George-William Thornley

Le Jockey

c.1888-1889 GBP 3,500.00 - 4,500.00 GBP 4,550.00
160 PABLO PICASSO (1881-1973) (after)

Le Clown

1968 GBP 2,500.00 - 3,500.00 GBP 4,288.00
  • 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
  • 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
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