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Sydney Rare Book Auctions: ART Modernism, Expressionism, Monographs, Catalogue Raissones and more

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Auction Name ART Modernism, Expressionism, Monographs, Catalogue Raissones and more Total Sales (AUD) 58,393.75
Auction Date July 29, 2022 - July 29, 2022 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (AUD) 61,660.00
Sale Number #72922 High Estimate of Lots Sold (AUD) 89,100.00
Total Lots 499
Sold Lots 422 Low Estimate of All Lots (AUD) 87,740.00
% of Lots Sold 84.57% High Estimate of All Lots (AUD) 122,990.00
Unsold Lots 77 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 47.48%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
9 Bernhard Geiser and Brigitte Baer.

The artists need no introduction ....... Picasso: peintre-graveur

AUD 3,000.00 - 3,500.00 AUD 3,125.00
37 Nohah Brannen and William Elliott

Festive Wine - Ancient Japanese Poems from the Kinkafu. and a series of woodblock prints by Haku Maki.

1969 AUD 2,000.00 - 2,500.00 AUD 2,000.00
19 Edited by David Sylvester with introduction by Herbert Read.

Henry Moore: Sculpture and Drawings 1921-1986.

1989-1999 AUD 1,000.00 - 1,250.00 AUD 1,250.00
384

Adrian Feint original artworks and printer proofs for: Theatre programme, Royal Gala Performance, Tivoli Theatre.

1954 AUD 750.00 - 1,000.00 AUD 1,125.00
18 Ann Garrould.

Henry Moore. Complete Drawings 1916-1983

1996-2003 AUD 1,250.00 - 1,500.00 AUD 1,062.50
411

This lot unveils a controversial chapter in Australian art history, including letters, news paper cuttings, catalogues and other documents pertaining to the Australian Academy of Art.

AUD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 AUD 1,062.50
10 Gunther Gercken.

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner: Kritisches Werkverzeichnis der Druckgraphik

2013-2015 AUD 1,000.00 - 1,250.00 AUD 1,000.00
4 James Hofmaier.

Max Beckmann: Catalogue Raisonné of His Prints.

1990 AUD 700.00 - 800.00 AUD 687.50
200 Antoinette Le Normand-Romain.

The Bronzes of Rodin, Catalogue of the works in the Musee Rodin, Volume 1 & 2.

2007 AUD 200.00 - 300.00 AUD 625.00
36 Arthur Rackham.

A Midsummer-Nights Dream Illustrated

1908 AUD 750.00 - 1,000.00 AUD 562.50
46 Alexandra von dem Knesebeck.

Kathe Kollwitz: Werkverzeichnis der Graphik

2002 AUD 500.00 - 600.00 AUD 531.25
11

Alberto Giacometti. Catalogue raisonné des estampes. 1917-1965. Catalogue raisonné of the Graphic Work. In two volumes. Hardcovers in dustwrappers in excellent condition

2016 AUD 500.00 - 600.00 AUD 500.00
112

John Allcot: Marine Artist.

1978 AUD 500.00 - 600.00 AUD 500.00
274 Barron.

Degenerate Art: The Fate of the Avant-Garde in WW2 Germany

1991 AUD 100.00 - 150.00 AUD 500.00
7 John Rewald, with Walter Feilchenfeldt and Jayne Warman.

The Paintings of Paul Cézanne. A Catalogue Raisonné.

1996 AUD 200.00 - 300.00 AUD 468.75
449 Donald Friend.

Birds from the Magic Mountain,

1977 AUD 350.00 - 450.00 AUD 468.75
225 Aristophanes. Done into English by Jack Lindsay

Lysistrata

1926 AUD 400.00 - 500.00 AUD 437.50
5 Briony Fer.

Cy Twombly

2015-16 AUD 350.00 - 450.00 AUD 406.25
156

1) Jeffrey Smart, Drawings and Studies 1942-2001.

2001 AUD 250.00 - 350.00 AUD 406.25
390

Two bound volumes of WWI magazines. First volume includes Puck Magazine only Sept 4 1915 - November 1916.

1915 - 1916 AUD 400.00 - 500.00 AUD 406.25
6 Edited by Suzi Villiger.

Hans Hofmann: Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings

2014 AUD 200.00 - 300.00 AUD 375.00
12 Elizabeth Mongan, Eberhard Kornfeld, Harold Joachim.

Paul Gauguin: Catalogue Raisonne of his prints

1988 AUD 550.00 - 650.00 AUD 375.00
389

One bound volume of Vanity Fair between December 1918- May 1919.

1918-1919 AUD 250.00 - 300.00 AUD 375.00
484 E. J. Detmold.

The Arabian Nights, Tales from the Thousand and One Nights. Illustrated

No dates, circa 1920s AUD 400.00 - 500.00 AUD 375.00
157 Renee Free.

1) James Gleeson, Images from the Shadows,

1996 AUD 150.00 - 250.00 AUD 343.75
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