• Dominic Winter Auctioneers
    May 14
    Printed Books & Maps, Travel, Atlases & Exploration
    Dominic Winter, May 14: (Choiseul-Gouffier, Marie). Voyage Pittoresque de la Grece, 2 vols, 1st edition, 1782-1822. £2,000-3,000
    Dominic Winter, May 14: Gentlemen's Magazine and Historical Chronicle, by Sylvanus Urban, 11 volumes. £700-1,000
    Dominic Winter, May 14: Shackleton (Ernest). The Heart of the Antarctic, 2 vols, 1st ed, presentation copy, 1909. £2,000-3,000
    Dominic Winter Auctioneers
    May 14
    Printed Books & Maps, Travel, Atlases & Exploration
    Dominic Winter, May 14: Drayton (Michael). Poly Olbion..., London: 1622. £2,000-3,000
    Dominic Winter, May 14: Scheuchzer (Johann Jacob). Ouresiphoites Helveticus, 4 parts in 1, 2nd ed, 1723. £3,000-4,000
    Dominic Winter, May 14: Roberts (Henry, after). Chart of the NW Coast of America and NE Coast of Asia ..., [1784]. £500-800
    Dominic Winter Auctioneers
    May 14
    Printed Books & Maps, Travel, Atlases & Exploration
    Dominic Winter, May 14: World. Maffei (Giovanni), Indiarum orientalium Occidentaliumque Descriptio..., 1589. £1,200-1,500
    Dominic Winter, May 14: World. Ortelius (Abraham), Typus Orbis Terrarum, [1598]. £2,000-3,000
    Dominic Winter, May 14: Bible [English]. [The Holy Bible, Conteyning the Old Testament, and the New..., 1613]. £2,000-3,000
    Dominic Winter Auctioneers
    May 14
    Printed Books & Maps, Travel, Atlases & Exploration
    Dominic Winter, May 14: Taylor (John). All the Workes of John Taylor the Water-Poet..., 1630. £1,000-1,500
    Dominic Winter, May 14: Pierpont Morgan Collection. Catalogue of the Morgan Collection of Chinese Porcelains, 1904 & 1906. £2,000-3,000
  • Swann, May 15: Lot 4: Helena Bochoráková-Dittrichová, Z Mého Detství Drevoryty, Prague: Obzina, 1929. First trade edition, signed by the artist. $4,000 to $6,000.
    Swann, May 15: Lot 10: Nancy Cunard, Negro Anthology, with a tipped-in A.L.S. to Karl Marx's niece, 1934. First edition. $3,000 to $5,000.
    Swann, May 15: Lot 14: Margaret Fuller, Woman in the Nineteenth Century, 1845. First edition. $4,000 to $6,000.
    Swann, May 15: Lot 17: Lorraine Hansberry, A Raisin in the Sun, inscribed first edition, 1959. $2,000 to $3,000.
    Swann, May 15: Lot 28: Margaret Hill Morris, Private Journal Kept during a Portion of the Revolutionary War, for the Amusement of a Sister, 1836. First edition. $3,000 to $4,000.
    Swann, May 15: Lot 38: Anna Sewell, Black Beauty: The Autobiography of a Horse, 1877. First edition. $3,000 to $5,000.
    Swann, May 15: Lot 43: Gertrude Stein, Portrait of Mabel Dodge at the Villa Curonia, signed presentation copy with photograph of Stein, 1912. First edition. $8,000 to $12,000.
    Swann, May 15: Lot 48: Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse, first edition in the scarce dust jacket, 1927. $6,000 to $8,000.
    Swann, May 15: Lot 54: Katherine Dunham, large archive of material from her attorney, 1951-53. $20,000 to $30,000.
    Swann, May 15: Lot 55: Margaret Fuller Signed Autograph Letter, New York City, 1846. $3,000 to $5,000.
    Swann, May 15: Lot 92: Sonia Delaunay, illus. & Tristan Tzara, Juste Present, deluxe edition with original gouache, 1961. $20,000 to $25,000.
    Swann, May 15: Lot 93: Flor Garduño, The Sonnets of Shakespeare, 2006. Limited edition. $6,000 to $8,000.
  • Ketterer Rare Books
    Auction May 26th
    Ketterer, May 26: Th. McKenney & J. Hall, History of the Indian tribes of North America, 1836-1844. Est: €50,000
    Ketterer, May 26: Biblia latina vulgata, manuscript on thin parchment, around 1250. Est: €70,000
    Ketterer, May 26: M. Beckmann, Fanferlieschen Schönefüßchen, 1924. Est: €10,000
    Ketterer Rare Books
    Auction May 26th
    Ketterer, May 26: A. Ortelius, Theatrum orbis terrarum, 1574. Est: €50,000
    Ketterer, May 26: M. S. Merian, Eurcarum ortus, alimentum et paradoxa metamorphosis, 1717-18. Est: €6,000
    Ketterer, May 26: PAN, 9 volumes, 1895-1900. Est: €12,000
    Ketterer Rare Books
    Auction May 26th
    Ketterer, May 26: Breviarium Romanum, Latin manuscript, 1474. Est: €15,000
    Ketterer, May 26: Quran manuscript from the Saadian period, Maghreb, 16th century. Est: €10,000
    Ketterer, May 26: E. Hemingway, The old man and the sea, 1952. First edition in first issue jacket. Presentation copy. Est: €3,000
    Ketterer Rare Books
    Auction May 26th
    Ketterer, May 26: Flavius Vegetius Renatus, De re militari libri quatuor, 1553. Est: €3,000
    Ketterer, May 26: K. Marx, Das Kapital, 1867. Est: €30,000
    Ketterer, May 26: Brassaï, Transmutations, 1967. Est: €6,000
  • Leland Little, May 21: Signed Artist Proof of the Monumental G.O.A.T.: A Tribute to Muhammad Ali.
    Leland Little, May 21: Assorted Rare Publications Related to H.P. Lovecraft, Including The Recluse Signed by Vincent Starrett.
    Leland Little, May 21: Two Issues of The Vagrant, Including the First Appearance of H.P. Lovecraft's "Dagon" in Number Eleven.
    Leland Little, May 21: Rare First Printing of Anne of Green Gables, With ALS from the Author.
    Leland Little, May 21: First Edition of Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea, In First Issue Jacket.
    Leland Little, May 21: The Limited Paumanok Edition of The Complete Writings of Walt Whitman.
    Leland Little, May 21: Beautifully Bound Limited Flaubert Edition of The Works of Guy de Maupassant.
    Leland Little, May 21: First Edition of Bonaparte's Celebrated American Ornithology, With Spectacular Hand-Colored Plates.
    Leland Little, May 21: A Rare Complete Set of Jardine's The Naturalist's Library, With Hand-Colored Plates.
    Leland Little, May 21: Invitation to the Lincoln-Johnson National Inaugural Ball, March 4th, 1865.
    Leland Little, May 21: A Scarce Inscribed First Edition of James Baldwin's Nobody Knows My Name.
    Leland Little, May 21: Picasso's Le Goût du Bonheur, Limited Edition.
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Ader: Post War and Contemporary Prints

Auction Reports

Auction Name Post War and Contemporary Prints Total Sales (EUR) 367,403.00
Auction Date January 29, 2025 - January 29, 2025 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR) 177,400.00
Sale Number #155661 High Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR) 226,720.00
Total Lots 277
Sold Lots 237 Low Estimate of All Lots (EUR) 194,610.00
% of Lots Sold 85.56% High Estimate of All Lots (EUR) 249,310.00
Unsold Lots 40 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 147.37%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
164 Joan Miro (1893-1983)

Large Black Triptych.

1969 EUR 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 EUR 29,900.00
101 Pablo Picasso (1881-1973)

Minotaure, Drinker and Women (Suite Vollard, pl. 92).

June 18, 1933. EUR 20,000.00 - 25,000.00 EUR 23,400.00
28 Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) (after)

The Painter.

1964 EUR 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 EUR 11,700.00
207

La Peau des choses ("On behalf of Jean-Robert Arnaud, publisher, Paris, on the occasion of Michel Ragon's twenty years as an art critic").

1968 EUR 8,000.00 - 10,000.00 EUR 10,110.00
274 Andy Warhol (American, 1928-1987)

Pl. 10 for Ladies and Gentlemen portfolio.

1975 EUR 7,000.00 - 8,000.00 EUR 9,880.00
150 Marcel Jean (1900-1993)

Profil de la memoire; etchings 1935-1942.

1975 EUR 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 EUR 8,060.00
104 Pablo Picasso (1881-1973)

In the studio, or Painter and model examining his portrait.

March 14, 1965. EUR 4,000.00 - 5,000.00 EUR 7,800.00
72

A very strong lot by Assadour, Avati, Bardone, Lars Bo, Carzou, Clairin, Decaris, Dorny, Gerarddiaz, Guiramand, Houplain, Jacquemin, Mathieux-Marie, Minaux, Moreh, Muron, Oudot, Piza, Rigal, Secheret, Singier, Soulas, Weisbuch...

1970-2000. EUR 2,000.00 - 2,500.00 EUR 6,760.00
129 Francis Bacon (British, 1909-1992)

Figure Writing Reflected in a Mirror.

1977 EUR 5,000.00 - 6,000.00 EUR 6,760.00
109 Pablo Picasso (1881-1973)

Portrait of a Dutch lady with a crush (Les 347, pl. 265).

August 10, 1968. EUR 1,000.00 - 1,200.00 EUR 6,500.00
112 Pablo Picasso (1881-1973)

Television: Quaker, Redskin, horsewoman (Les 347, pl. 338).

September 26, 1968. EUR 1,500.00 - 1,800.00 EUR 6,500.00
106 Pablo Picasso (1881-1973)

Old man sitting with a woman, and a dancer (Les 347, pl. 239).

August 3, 1968. EUR 1,500.00 - 1,800.00 EUR 6,240.00
240 Pierre Soulages (1919-2022)

Lithograph no. 25

1969 EUR 5,000.00 - 6,000.00 EUR 6,240.00
108 Pablo Picasso (1881-1973)

Emblematic Man with Pipe (Les 347, pl. 257).

August 8, 1968. EUR 1,200.00 - 1,500.00 EUR 5,200.00
113 Pablo Picasso (1881-1973)

Gladiatorial combat, with spectators, and below, a reminder of the Ecce Homo. (Les 156, pl. 19).

March 11, 1970. EUR 1,800.00 - 2,000.00 EUR 5,200.00
154 Maria Martins (Brazilian, 1894-1973)

Macumba.

Circa 1945. EUR 1,000.00 - 1,200.00 EUR 5,200.00
110 Pablo Picasso (1881-1973)

Acrobatic model and draughtsman. (Les 347, pl. 279).

August 15, 1968. EUR 1,000.00 - 1,200.00 EUR 4,940.00
111 Pablo Picasso (1881-1973)

Egyptian and Women (Les 347, pl. 331).

September 21, 1968. EUR 1,500.00 - 1,800.00 EUR 4,940.00
71

Greeting cards.

1970-2000. EUR 600.00 - 800.00 EUR 4,680.00
77 Georges Braque (1882-1963)

Astre et oiseau I.

1958-1959. EUR 1,800.00 - 2,000.00 EUR 4,550.00
114 Pablo Picasso (1881-1973)

Dressage at the circus, with horsewoman, magician, falconer and Noah's dove in the foreground (Les 156, pl. 36).

April 19-20, 1970. EUR 1,800.00 - 2,000.00 EUR 4,550.00
160 Maria Martins (Brazilian, 1894-1973)

Head of Medusa.

Circa 1946. EUR 1,500.00 - 1,800.00 EUR 4,550.00
86 Leonard-Tsuguharu Foujita (1886-1868)

Girl with cat.

1959 EUR 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 EUR 4,160.00
107 Pablo Picasso (1881-1973)

La Sieste: couple (Les 347, pl. 255).

August 7, 1968. EUR 1,200.00 - 1,500.00 EUR 4,160.00
115 Pablo Picasso (1881-1973)

Dancer trying to seduce a guitarist's owl (or vice versa). (Les 156, pl. 46).

May 11, 1970. EUR 1,500.00 - 1,800.00 EUR 4,160.00
  • Sotheby's
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    Sotheby’s: The Shem Tov Bible, 1312 | A Masterpiece from the Golden Age of Spain. Sold: 6,960,000 USD
    Sotheby’s: Ten Commandments Tablet, 300-800 CE | One of humanity's earliest and most enduring moral codes. Sold: 5,040,000 USD
    Sotheby’s: William Blake | Songs of Innocence and of Experience. Sold: 4,320,000 USD
    Sotheby’s: The Declaration of Independence | The Holt printing, the only copy in private hands. Sold: 3,360,000 USD
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    Sotheby’s: Thomas Taylor | The original cover art for Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone. Sold: 1,920,000 USD
    Sotheby’s: Machiavelli | Il Principe, a previously unrecorded copy of the book where modern political thought began. Sold: 576,000 GBP
    Sotheby’s: Leonardo da Vinci | Trattato della pittura, ca. 1639, a very fine pre-publication manuscript. Sold: 381,000 GBP
    Sotheby’s: Henri Matisse | Jazz, Paris 1947, the complete portfolio. Sold: 312,000 EUR
  • Gonnelli
    Auction 59
    Antique prints, paintings and maps
    May 20th 2025
    Gonnelli: Pietro Aquila, Psyche and Proserpina,1690. Starting price 140€
    Gonnelli: Jacques Gamelin, Memento homo quia pulvis es et in pulverem reverteris, 1779. Starting price 300€
    Gonnelli: Giorgio Ghisi, The final Judgement, 1680. Starting price 480€
    Gonnelli
    Auction 59
    Antique prints, paintings and maps
    May 20th 2025
    Gonnelli Goya y Lucientes Francisco, Los Proverbios.1877. Starting price 1000 €
    Gonnelli: Domenico Peruzzini, Long bearded old man, 1660. Starting price 2200€
    Gonnelli: Enea Vico, Leda and the Swan,1542. Starting price 140€
    Gonnelli
    Auction 59
    Antique prints, paintings and maps
    May 20th 2025
    Gonnelli: Andrea Del Sarto [school of], San Giovanni Battista, 1570. Starting price 25000€
    Gonnelli: Carlo Maratta, Virgin Mary and Jesus, 1660. Starting Price 1200€
    Gonnelli: Louis Brion de La Tour, Sphére de Copernic Sphere de Ptolemée / Le Systême de Ptolemée. Le Systême de Ticho-Brahe…, 1766. Starting price 180€
    Gonnelli
    Auction 59
    Antique prints, paintings and maps
    May 20th 2025
    Gonnelli: Marc’Antonio Dal Re, Ville di Delizia o Siano Palaggi Camparecci nello Stato di Milano Divise in Sei Tomi Con espressevi le Piante…, Tomo Primo, 1726. Starting price 7000€
    Gonnelli: Katsushika Hokusai, Bird on a branch, 1843. Starting price 100€
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