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Dirk Soulis Auctions: 19th Annual Winter Art Auction

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Auction Name 19th Annual Winter Art Auction Total Sales (USD) 89,298.00
Auction Date December 07, 2024 - December 07, 2024 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 52,700.00
Sale Number #120724 High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 80,250.00
Total Lots 89
Sold Lots 75 Low Estimate of All Lots (USD) 59,200.00
% of Lots Sold 84.27% High Estimate of All Lots (USD) 90,350.00
Unsold Lots 14 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 98.84%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
99 Grant Wood (1891-1942)

July Fifteenth

1938 USD 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 USD 10,455.00
98 Grant Wood (1891-1942)

Fertility

1939 USD 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 USD 9,225.00
100 Thomas Hart Benton (1889-1975)

Self Portrait

1972 USD 2,000.00 - 4,000.00 USD 7,380.00
105 Thomas Hart Benton (Missouri, 1889-1975)

Old Man Reading

1941 USD 2,000.00 - 2,500.00 USD 3,198.00
103 Wuanita Smith (1866-1959)

New Birthday Clothes, Hopi Girl

Circa 1930. USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 USD 2,952.00
110 Thomas Hart Benton (Missouri, 1889-1975)

The Little Fisherman

1967 USD 1,800.00 - 2,400.00 USD 2,952.00
101 Thomas Hart Benton (1889-1975)

Sunday Morning

1939 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 2,460.00
106 Thomas Hart Benton (Missouri, 1889-1975)

Edge of Town

1938 USD 2,000.00 - 2,500.00 USD 2,460.00
102 Howard Norton Cook (1901-1980)

Snow and 'Dobe

1926 USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 USD 2,214.00
107 Thomas Hart Benton (Missouri, 1889-1975)

Morning Train (a.k.a. Soldier's Farewell)

1943 USD 2,000.00 - 2,500.00 USD 2,214.00
22 Charles Banks Wilson (1918-2013)

Hill Dance

1943 USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 USD 1,968.00
109 Charles Banks Wilson (Oklahoma, 1918-2013)

War Dance for Little Indians

1941 USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 USD 1,968.00
108 Charles Banks Wilson (Oklahoma, 1918-2013)

Visiting Indians

1941 USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 USD 1,845.00
130 Coy Avon (C.A.) Seward (Kansas, 1884-1939)

Aspens - Hondo Canyon

1928 USD 600.00 - 800.00 USD 1,845.00
171 William Judson Dickerson (1904-1972)

Penitentes, #2

1927 USD 300.00 - 400.00 USD 1,722.00
172 William Judson Dickerson (1904-1972)

Penitentes, #1

1927 USD 300.00 - 400.00 USD 1,722.00
115 Ilya Bolotowsky (1907-1981)

Segmented Oval

1975 USD 500.00 - 1,500.00 USD 1,599.00
112 Bror Julius Olsson Nordfeldt (1878-1955)

Rio en Medio

1936 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 1,230.00
120 Barbara (Cook) Latham (New Mexico, 1896-1989)

Saturday Morning Market, Taos Plaza

Circa 1950 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 1,230.00
148 Kerr Eby (1889-1946)

The Devil's Back

1939 USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 1,230.00
170 William Judson Dickerson (1904-1972)

Penitentes, #3

1927 USD 300.00 - 400.00 USD 1,230.00
114 Charles Banks Wilson (1918-2013)

The Capitol Series

1976 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 1,107.00
118 Gene Kloss (New Mexico, 1903-1996)

Morning at the Pueblo

1975 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 1,107.00
121 Howard Norton Cook (1901-1980)

Tio Vivo #2

1949 USD 600.00 - 900.00 USD 1,107.00
104 Ross Eugene Braught (New York / Kansas City, 1898-1983)

Kingston Ten Miles

1931 USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 USD 1,045.50
  • Swann
    Printed & Manuscript African Americana
    March 20, 2025
    Swann, Mar. 20: Lot 7: Thomas Fisher, The Negro's Memorial or Abolitionist's Catechism, London, 1825. $6,000 to $9,000.
    Swann, Mar. 20: Lot 78: Victor H. Green, The Negro Travelers' Green Book, New York, 1958. $20,000 to $30,000.
    Swann, Mar. 20: Lot 99: Rosa Parks, Hand-written recollection of her first meeting with Martin Luther King Jr., autograph manuscript, Detroit, c. 1990s. $30,000 to $40,000.
    Swann, Mar. 20: Lot 154: Frederick Douglass, Autograph statement on voting rights, signed manuscript, 1866. $20,000 to $30,000.
    Swann, Mar. 20: Lot 164: W.E.B. Du Bois, What the Negro Has Done for the United States and Texas, Washington, circa 1936. $3,000 to $4,000.
    Swann
    Printed & Manuscript African Americana
    March 20, 2025
    Swann, Mar. 20: Lot 263: Susan Paul, Memoir of James Jackson, Boston, 1835. $6,000 to $9,000.
    Swann, Mar. 20: Lot 267: Langston Hughes, Gypsy Ballads, signed translation of García Lorca's poetry, Madrid, 1937. $1,500 to $2,500.
    Swann, Mar. 20: Lot 274: Malcolm X, Collection from Alex Haley's estate, 38 items, 1963-1971. $4,000 to $6,000.
    Swann, Mar. 20: Lot 367: Solomon Northup, Twelve Years a Slave, Auburn, NY, 1853. $2,500 to $3,500.
    Swann, Mar. 20: Lot 402: Anna Julia Cooper, A Voice from the South, Xenia, OH, 1892. $2,000 to $3,000.
  • Koller, Mar. 26: Wit, Frederick de. Atlas. Amsterdam, de Wit, [1680]. CHF 20,000 to 30,000
    Koller, Mar. 26: Merian, Maria Sibylla. Der Raupen wunderbare Verwandelung, und sonderbare Blumennahrung. Nürnberg, 1679; Frankfurt a. M. und Leipzig, 1683. CHF 20,000 to 30,000
    Koller, Mar. 26: GOETHE, JOHANN WOLFGANG VON. Faust. Ein Fragment. Von Goethe. Ächte Ausgabe. Leipzig, G. J. Göschen, 1790. CHF 7,000 to 10,000
    Koller, Mar. 26: Hieronymus. [Das hochwirdig leben der außerwoelten freünde gotes der heiligen altuaeter]. Augsburg, Johann Schönsperger d. Ä., 9. Juni 1497. CHF 40,000 to 60,000.
    Koller, Mar. 26: BIBLIA GERMANICA - Neunte deutsche Bibel. Nürnberg, A. Koberger, 17. Feb. 1483. CHF 40,000 to 60,000
    Koller, Mar. 26: HORAE B.M.V. - Stundenbuch. Lateinische Handschrift auf Pergament, Kalendarium französisch. Nordfrankreich (Rouen?). CHF 25,000 to 40,000
  • Sotheby's
    Sell Your Fine Books & Manuscripts
    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
    Sotheby's
    Sell Your Fine Books & Manuscripts
    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
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