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Heritage Auctions: Photographs Signature Auction

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Auction Name Photographs Signature Auction Total Sales (USD) 925,357.50
Auction Date October 08, 2021 - October 08, 2021 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 730,000.00
Sale Number #8053 High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 1,145,000.00
Total Lots 380
Sold Lots 262 Low Estimate of All Lots (USD) 999,000.00
% of Lots Sold 68.95% High Estimate of All Lots (USD) 1,569,500.00
Unsold Lots 118 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 58.96%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
73006 Ansel Adams (American, 1902-1984)

Portfolio Four: What Majestic Word, In Memory of Russell Varian (complete portfolio with 15 photographs)

1940-1963, printed 1963 USD 30,000.00 - 50,000.00 USD 50,000.00
73380 Chuck Close (American, 1940-2021)

Kate Moss (diptych)

2008 USD 15,000.00 - 25,000.00 USD 35,000.00
73259 Alfred Eisenstaedt (American, 1898-1995)

Drum Major and Children, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

1951, printed 1990 USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 27,500.00
73316 Steve McCurry (American, 1950)

Afghan Girl

1984, printed 2006 USD 30,000.00 - 50,000.00 USD 27,500.00
73256 Alfred Eisenstaedt (American, 1898-1995)

VJ Day, Times Square, New York

1945, printed 1979 USD 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 USD 25,000.00
73379 Peter Beard (American, 1938-2020)

Bicentennial Diary (diptych)

1976, printed 1988 USD 15,000.00 - 25,000.00 USD 23,750.00
73044 Berenice Abbott (American, 1898-1991)

New York at Night

1932, printed later USD 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 USD 20,000.00
73067 Edward Sheriff Curtis (American, 1868-1952)

Cañon del Muerto - Navaho (Canyon of Death)

1906 USD 12,000.00 - 18,000.00 USD 17,500.00
73184 Margaret Bourke-White (American, 1904-1971)

At the Time of the Louisville Flood, Louisville, Kentucky

1937, printed 2005 USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 USD 17,500.00
73373 Peter Beard (American, 1938-2020)

Diary Pages

1988 USD 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 USD 16,250.00
73070 Edward Sheriff Curtis (American, 1868-1952)

At the Old Well at Acoma,

circa1904 USD 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 USD 13,750.00
73247 Annie Leibovitz (American, 1949)

Muhammad Ali, New York

1996 USD 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 USD 13,125.00
73167 Ruth Bernhard (American, 1905-2006)

In the Box-Horizontal

1962, printed later USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 12,500.00
73188 Dorothea Lange (American, 1895-1965)

Migrant Mother

1936, printed later USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 12,500.00
73350 Joel-Peter Witkin (American, 1939)

Woman Masturbating on the Moon

1981 USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 12,500.00
73376 Peter Beard (American, 1938-2020)

Untitled (Elephant Eye)

1983 USD 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 USD 12,500.00
73135 Manuel Álvarez Bravo (Mexican, 1902-2002)

El Ensueño (The Day Dream)

1931, printed later USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 10,937.50
73303 O. Winston Link (American, 1914-2001)

Hot Shot Eastbound, Iaeger Drive-in, Iaeger, West Virginia

1956, printed 1982 USD 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 USD 10,000.00
73378 Nick Brandt (British, 1964)

Wasteland with Cheetahs and Children (from Inherit the Dust series)

2015, printed 2016 USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 USD 10,000.00
73138 Seydou Keïta (Malian, 1923-2001)

Untitled (Bamako, Father and Child),

circa1950, printed 1999 USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 9,375.00
73370 Nobuyoshi Araki (Japanese, 1940)

Tokyo Nouvelle

1995 USD 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 USD 9,375.00
73019 Ori Gersht (Israeli, 1967)

Olive 11 (from Ghost series)

2003, printed 2004 USD 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 USD 9,062.50
73012 Lynn Davis (American, 1944)

Iceberg, Disko Bay, Greenland

2004, printed 2008 USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 USD 8,750.00
73219 Jacques Henri Charles au Lartigue (French, 1894-1986)

Renée

1931, printed 1981 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 8,125.00
73239 Lawrence Schiller (American, 1936)

Marilyn 12 (complete portfolio of 14 works)

1962, printed 2007 USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 USD 8,125.00
  • 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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