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Auction Name Summer Selection: Modern & Contemporary Editions Total Sales (GBP) 313,440.92
Auction Date July 31, 2024 - July 31, 2024 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP) 196,530.00
Sale Number #1149 High Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP) 277,220.00
Total Lots 380
Sold Lots 277 Low Estimate of All Lots (GBP) 290,480.00
% of Lots Sold 72.89% High Estimate of All Lots (GBP) 404,270.00
Unsold Lots 103 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 77.53%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
5 Banksy

Love Rat

2004 GBP 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 GBP 17,576.00
3 Banksy

CND Soldiers

2005 GBP 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 GBP 10,816.00
372 Pablo Picasso

Homme et Femme (Bloch 77)

1927 GBP 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 GBP 10,816.00
5A Stik

Dancer

2011 GBP 8,000.00 - 10,000.00 GBP 10,140.00
6 Bridget Riley

Leap (Tommasini & Gubay 68)

2008 GBP 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 GBP 10,140.00
4 Banksy

Monkey Queen

2004 GBP 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 GBP 9,464.00
11 Roy Lichtenstein

Illustration for 'De Denver au Montana, Depart 27 Mai 1972 (II)' (Corlett 276)

1992 GBP 7,000.00 - 9,000.00 GBP 9,184.00
12 Roy Lichtenstein

Illustration for 'Hum-Bum!'

1992 GBP 7,000.00 - 9,000.00 GBP 9,184.00
8 Damien Hirst

Mementos of the Fat Woman, 2016, from The Currency

2016 GBP 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 GBP 8,112.00
374 Pablo Picasso

Le Dejeuner sur L'Herbe (Bloch 1024; Cramer 118)

1962 GBP 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 GBP 7,436.00
7 Damien Hirst

H13-7. Mill Bay, Salcombe, from Where the Land Meets the Sea

2023 GBP 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 GBP 5,678.40
153 Gary Hume

Spring Angels

2000 GBP 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 GBP 5,002.40
363 Henri Matisse

Verve Vol. IX, Nos. 35-36

1958 GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 GBP 4,550.00
194 Grayson Perry

Gay Black Cats MC

2017 GBP 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 GBP 4,056.00
92 Michael Kagan

Time to Go

2021 GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 GBP 3,148.80
77 Stik

Holding Hands (Red, Orange, Yellow, Blue & Teal) (signed)

2020 GBP 2,500.00 - 3,000.00 GBP 2,974.40
101 Weiwei Ai

Coca-Cola Vase

2023 GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 GBP 2,886.40
199 Paula (1935) Rego

Embarkation, from Six Artists: The Royal College of Art Portfolio 1992 (Rosenthal 76)

1992 GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 GBP 2,704.00
215 David Shrigley

I've Got Your Lipstick

2021 GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 GBP 2,704.00
316 Salvador Dali

Intra-Uterine Paradesic Locomotion, from Imaginations and Objects of the Future (Field 75-11D; M&L 825a)

1975/6 GBP 1,800.00 - 2,200.00 GBP 2,568.80
87 Martin Whatson

Elephant

2022 GBP 1,800.00 - 2,200.00 GBP 2,433.60
24 Keith Haring

Untitled, from the Valley (see Littman p.141)

1989 GBP 1,800.00 - 2,200.00 GBP 2,361.60
25 Keith Haring

Untitled, from the Valley (see Littman p.137)

1989 GBP 1,800.00 - 2,200.00 GBP 2,361.60
29 Blu

Headquarters

2008 GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 GBP 2,298.40
255 Terry Frost

Life is Just a Bowl of Cherries II, from The Royal Academy Schools: Portfolio No.1 2004 (Kemp 252)

2004 GBP 400.00 - 600.00 GBP 2,298.40
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