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Venator and Hanstein: Modern and Contemporary Graphic Art, Modern Books

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Auction Name Modern and Contemporary Graphic Art, Modern Books Total Sales (EUR) 399,533.40
Auction Date March 29, 2025 - March 29, 2025 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR) 350,000.00
Sale Number #180 High Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR) 350,000.00
Total Lots 503
Sold Lots 267 Low Estimate of All Lots (EUR) 570,650.00
% of Lots Sold 53.08% High Estimate of All Lots (EUR) 570,650.00
Unsold Lots 236 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 70.01%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
1085 Arnulf Rainer

Haute Coiffure

1963 EUR 9,000.00 - 9,000.00 EUR 10,710.00
793 RUPPRECHT GEIGER

Farbsequenzen

1966 EUR 5,000.00 - 5,000.00 EUR 9,450.00
1320 ERNST LUDWIG KIRCHNER

GUSTAV SCHIEFLER: Die Graphik Ernst Ludwig Kirchners. Band I bis 1916 / Band II 1917-1927. 2 Bde.

1926-31 EUR 5,000.00 - 5,000.00 EUR 7,938.00
1101 GERHARD RICHTER

Blattecke

2014 EUR 3,000.00 - 3,000.00 EUR 7,560.00
832 HAP GRIESHABER

Fruhling (Hirtin)

1949 EUR 5,000.00 - 5,000.00 EUR 6,930.00
503 JOSEF ALBERS

Ek Id (aus: Homage to the Square)

1970 EUR 6,000.00 - 6,000.00 EUR 6,300.00
672 OTTO DIX

Katze und Hahn

1966 EUR 3,000.00 - 3,000.00 EUR 6,300.00
870 DAVID HOCKNEY

The marriage

1962 EUR 6,000.00 - 6,000.00 EUR 6,300.00
978 EWALD MATARE

Liegende Kuh

1934 (oder 1932 EUR 3,000.00 - 3,000.00 EUR 6,300.00
1052 PABLO PICASSO

La Ronde de la Jeunesse

1961 EUR 5,000.00 - 5,000.00 EUR 5,292.00
1027 EMIL NOLDE

Segler und drei kleine Dampfer

1910 EUR 5,000.00 - 5,000.00 EUR 5,040.00
1242 ANDY WARHOL

Jean Cocteau

1985 EUR 4,000.00 - 4,000.00 EUR 5,040.00
639 MARC CHAGALL

Clown (Aus: Der Zirkus)

1967 EUR 2,500.00 - 2,500.00 EUR 4,914.00
1069 SERGE POLIAKOFF

Composition rouge et verte (Komposition in Rot und Grun)

1962 EUR 3,500.00 - 3,500.00 EUR 4,914.00
1382 PABLO PICASSO; PIERRE REVERDY

Le chant des Morts. Poemes. Lithographies originales de Pablo Picasso.

1948 EUR 4,500.00 - 4,500.00 EUR 4,914.00
794 RUPPRECHT GEIGER

Ein Weg zur Farbe (Mappenwerk und Entwurfe)

1977 EUR 4,500.00 - 4,500.00 EUR 4,536.00
970 NEO RAUCH

Die Reise

1989 EUR 4,500.00 - 4,500.00 EUR 4,536.00
1376 MIRO, JOAN; MICHEL LEIRIS / FERNAND MOURLOT

Der Lithograph. (Deutsche Ubersetzung von Ursula Patzies und Georges D. Ruelle). Bd. I. (v. 4).

1972 EUR 3,000.00 - 3,000.00 EUR 4,536.00
945 ROY LICHTENSTEIN

As I opened fire

1966 EUR 3,000.00 - 3,000.00 EUR 4,158.00
1323 HEINRICH VOGELER

HUGO VON HOFMANNSTHAL: Der Kaiser und die Hexe.

1900 EUR 5,000.00 - 5,000.00 EUR 4,158.00
1340 MARC CHAGALL

FERNAND MOURLOT: Chagall Lithograph II: 1957-1962

1963 EUR 4,000.00 - 4,000.00 EUR 4,158.00
1391 WALASSE TING

1C/ Life / One Cent Life. Ed. by Sam Francis.

1964 EUR 2,000.00 - 2,000.00 EUR 4,158.00
635 MARC CHAGALL

Hochzeitsfest in der Grotte der Nymphen (Aus: Daphnis und Chloe)

1961 EUR 4,000.00 - 4,000.00 EUR 3,780.00
971

ZERO

1966 EUR 3,000.00 - 3,000.00 EUR 3,780.00
1054 PABLO PICASSO

Aus: La Celestine

1968 EUR 4,000.00 - 4,000.00 EUR 3,780.00
  • 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
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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€
  • 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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