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Rago Arts and Auctions: Prints and Multiples

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Auction Name Prints and Multiples Total Sales (USD) 1,433,204.00
Auction Date October 13, 2021 - October 13, 2021 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 813,500.00
Sale Number #101321 High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 1,221,800.00
Total Lots 276
Sold Lots 254 Low Estimate of All Lots (USD) 891,800.00
% of Lots Sold 92.03% High Estimate of All Lots (USD) 1,337,600.00
Unsold Lots 22 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 107.15%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
183 Roy Lichtenstein

Entablature I-VIII, X and XA (ten works)

1976 USD 60,000.00 - 80,000.00 USD 97,500.00
126 Pablo Picasso

Pique (Noir et Beige)

1959 USD 30,000.00 - 50,000.00 USD 47,500.00
153 Andy Warhol

Liz

1965 USD 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 USD 47,500.00
184 Roy Lichtenstein

Still Life with Lobster (from the Still Lifes series)

1974 USD 15,000.00 - 25,000.00 USD 47,500.00
321 Alex Katz

Eleuthera

1999 USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 43,750.00
245 Andy Warhol

Blackglama (Judy Garland) (from the Ads Portfolio)

1985 USD 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 USD 35,000.00
260 Helen Frankenthaler

Midnight

1987 USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 26,000.00
128 Pablo Picasso

Femme Couchée et Homme à la Guitare

1959 USD 15,000.00 - 25,000.00 USD 23,750.00
106 Joan Miró

Plate 8 (from the Barcelona Miró 1972-73 portfolio)

c. 1972-73 USD 15,000.00 - 25,000.00 USD 22,500.00
247 After Jean-Michel Basquiat

Untitled

2019 USD 15,000.00 - 25,000.00 USD 21,250.00
343 Damien Hirst

Mescaline

2014 USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 USD 20,800.00
155 Roy Lichtenstein

Temple (from the Temples and Ruins series)

1964 USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 USD 20,000.00
108 Joan Miró

Centennaire pour l'imprimerie Mourlot

1953 USD 15,000.00 - 25,000.00 USD 18,750.00
262 Francis Bacon

Study for Self Portrait

1984 USD 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 USD 18,750.00
347 Julian Opie

Elena and Cressie get ready for the party (six works)

2011 USD 25,000.00 - 35,000.00 USD 18,750.00
334 Richard Serra

Trajectory #3

2004 USD 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 USD 17,920.00
351 Carlos Cruz-Diez

Couleur Additive Perseus

2017 USD 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 USD 17,500.00
209 Frank Stella

River of Ponds III (from the Newfoundland series)

1971 USD 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 USD 16,250.00
250 Andy Warhol

Speed Skater (from the Art and Sports portfolio)

1983 USD 15,000.00 - 25,000.00 USD 16,250.00
229 Elisabeth Frink

Images 67

1967 USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 15,000.00
246 Andy Warhol

Ladies and Gentleman

1975 USD 7,000.00 - 9,000.00 USD 13,750.00
285 Chuck Close

Lyle

2003 USD 15,000.00 - 25,000.00 USD 13,750.00
214 Ellsworth Kelly

Green Curve with Radius of 20' (from the For Meyer Schapiro portfolio)

1974 USD 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 USD 11,875.00
313 Sol LeWitt

Wavy Brustrokes (small); Short, Vertical Brushstrokes; Curvy Brushstrokes (small) (three works)

1997 USD 3,500.00 - 5,500.00 USD 11,875.00
169 Richard Hamilton

Five Tyres Remoulded

1971 USD 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 USD 10,625.00
  • 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
  • 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.
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