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Potomack Company: 20th and 21st Century Fine Art

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Auction Name 20th and 21st Century Fine Art Total Sales (USD) 272,870.00
Auction Date February 12, 2025 - February 12, 2025 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 130,150.00
Sale Number #21225 High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 183,600.00
Total Lots 40
Sold Lots 30 Low Estimate of All Lots (USD) 144,700.00
% of Lots Sold 75.00% High Estimate of All Lots (USD) 205,200.00
Unsold Lots 10 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 132.98%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
2029 William H. Johnson

JITTERBUGS V, 1941-42

1941-42 USD 70,000.00 - 90,000.00 USD 188,500.00
2077 Richard Diebenkorn

TOUCHED RED, 1991

1991 USD 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 USD 20,800.00
2068 Joan Miro

LA FEMME AUX BIJOUX, 1968

1968 USD 12,000.00 - 16,000.00 USD 13,000.00
2075 Gene Bernard Davis

SIGNAL, 1973

1973 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 5,850.00
2092 Peter Lik

BEYOND PARADISE - KEY WEST FLORIDA

USD 1,500.00 - 3,000.00 USD 5,200.00
2078 Richard Diebenkorn

UNTITLED (CLUB SPADE GROUP, 1981-82) from EIGHT BY EIGHT TO CELEBRATE THE TEMPORARY CONTEMPORARY PORTFOLIO

1981-82 USD 2,500.00 - 5,000.00 USD 4,875.00
2009 Roger Muhl

PROVENCE, ED. 77/175

1986 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 4,225.00
2091 Peter Lik

TRANQUIL BAY- QUEENSLAND AUSTRALIA

USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 3,575.00
2070 Erich Heckel

ZWEI MANNER AM TISCH - TWO MEN AT A TABLE, 1913

1913 USD 2,500.00 - 5,000.00 USD 3,250.00
2032 William H. Johnson

BAZAARS BEHIND OSLO DOMKIRKE, CIRCA 1935

CIRCA 1935 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 2,925.00
2095 Peter Lik

ETERNAL BEAUTY - PAGE ARIZONA

USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 2,600.00
2093 Peter Lik

NIGHT OVER BROOKLYN

USD 1,500.00 - 3,000.00 USD 1,950.00
2094 Peter Lik

MANHATTAN GUARDIAN

USD 1,500.00 - 3,000.00 USD 1,950.00
2096 Peter Lik

CITY HALL - MANHATTAN

USD 1,500.00 - 3,000.00 USD 1,950.00
2098 Peter Lik

ENCHANTED - EAST HAMPTON, NEW YORK

USD 1,200.00 - 1,600.00 USD 1,950.00
2083 Jim Dine

ANEMONES

USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 1,820.00
2082 Richard Anuszkiewicz

UNTITLED, 1969

1969 USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 1,560.00
2069 Joan Miro

ARLEQUIN CIRCONSCRIT, 1973

1973 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 1,300.00
2071 George Wesley Bellows

NUDE STUDY; WOMAN LYING ON A PILLOW

USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 1,040.00
2089 Eric Kroll

KEITH HARING HOLDING MALIA SCHARF, TEREZA SCHARF, KENNY SCHARF, AND ANDY WARHOL IN KENNY SCHARF'S ART CAR, CA. 1985

CA. 1985 USD 700.00 - 900.00 USD 650.00
2072 George Wesley Bellows

ELSIE READING TO EMMA

USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 617.50
2074 Victor Vasarely

UNTITLED, AFTER SAMOS

USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 585.00
2088 A. Aubrey Bodine

BALTIMORE HARBOR NIGHT, 1949

1949 USD 700.00 - 900.00 USD 455.00
2069A Max Liebermann

AUS DEM JUDENVIERTEL IN AMSTERDAM: KARRENHANDEL - FROM THE JEWISH QUARTER IN AMSTERDAM: TRADE CART, 1908

1908 USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 390.00
2081 Thomas W. Benton

ACIREMA, 1968

1968 USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 390.00
  • Jeschke Jádi
    Rare Book Auction 155
    Saturday April 26, 2025
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 26: Lot 962. Baird. United States Exploring Expedition. Philadelphia 1858.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 26: Lot 772. Edith Holland Norton. Brazilian Flowers. Coombe Croft 1893.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 26: Lot 49. Petrarca. Das Gluecksbuch, Augsburg 1536.
    Jeschke Jádi
    Rare Book Auction 155
    Saturday April 26, 2025
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 26: Lot 1496. Jacob / Picasso. Chronique des Temps, 1956.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 26: Lot 8. Augustinus. De moribus ecclesie. Cologne 1480.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 26: Lot 17. Heures a lusaige de Noyon. Paris 1504.
    Jeschke Jádi
    Rare Book Auction 155
    Saturday April 26, 2025
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 26: Lot 13. Schedel. Buch der Chronicken. Nürnberg 1493.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 26: Lot 957. Donovan. Insects of China. London 1798.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 26: Lot 123. A holy martyr. Tuscany, Florence, mid-14th century.
    Jeschke Jádi
    Rare Book Auction 155
    Saturday April 26, 2025
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 26: Lot 438. Dante. La Divine Comédie. Paris 1963.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 26: Lot 602. Firdausi. Histoire de Minoutchehr. Paris 1919
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 26: Lot 994. Westwood. Oriental Entomology. London 1848.
  • 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
  • Fonsie Mealy’s
    Rare Books & Collectors’ Sale
    April 30th & May 1st
    Fonsie Mealy’s, Apr 30-May 1: Taylor (Geo.) & Skinner (A.) Maps of the Roads of Ireland, Surveyed 1777. Lond. & Dublin 1778. €500 to €750.
    Fonsie Mealy’s, Apr 30-May 1: Messingham (Thos.) Florilegium Insulae Sanctorum seu Vitae et Acta Sanctorum Hibernia, Paris 1624. €350 to €500.
    Fonsie Mealy’s, Apr 30-May 1: Heaney (Seamus). The Haw Lantern, L. (Faber & Faber) 1987, First Edn., Signed and dated. €225 to €350.
    Fonsie Mealy’s, Apr 30-May 1: Valencey (Lt. Col. Chas.) Collectanea de Rebus Hibernicis, Vols. I-IV, 4 vols. Dublin 1786. €400 to €600.
    Fonsie Mealy’s, Apr 30-May 1: Powerscourt (Viscount). A Description and History of Powerscourt, Lond. 1903. €350 to €500.
    Fonsie Mealy’s, Apr 30-May 1: Moryson (Fynes). An Itinerary ... Containing His Ten Yeeres Travel Through the Twelve Dominions of Germany, Bohermerland, Sweitzerland…, Lond. (John Beale) 1617. €700 to €1,000.
    Fonsie Mealy’s, Apr 30-May 1: After Buffon, Birds of Europe, c. 1820. Approx. 120 fine hd. cold. plts., mor. backed boards. €125 to €250.
    Fonsie Mealy’s, Apr 30-May 1: Dunlevy (Andrew). An Teagasg Criosduidhe De Reir Ceasda agus Freagartha... The Catechism or Christian Doctrine by Way of Question and Answer, Paris (James Guerin) 1742. €400 to €700.
    Fonsie Mealy’s, Apr 30-May 1: The Georgian Society Records of Eighteen-Century Domestic Architecture in Dublin, 5 vols. Complete, Dublin 1909-1913. €500 to €750.
    Fonsie Mealy’s, Apr 30-May 1: Scale (Bernard). An Hibernian Atlas or General Description of the Kingdom of Ireland, L. (Robert Sayer & John Bennet) 1776. €625 to €850.
    Fonsie Mealy’s, Apr 30-May 1: [Johnson (Rev. Samuel)]. Julian the Apostate Being a Short Account of his Life, together with a Comparison of Popery and Paganism,L. (Langley Curtis) 1682. €300 to €400.
    Fonsie Mealy’s, Apr 30-May 1: Nichlson (Wm.) Illustrator. An Almanac of Twelve Sports, Lond. 1898. €300 to €400.
    Fonsie Mealy’s, Apr 30-May 1: Heaney (Seamus) trans. The Light of the Leaves, 2 vols., Mexico (Imprenta de los Tropicos/Bunholt) 1999. €1,500 to €2,000.
    Fonsie Mealy’s, Apr 30-May 1: Fleming (Ian). Moonraker, L. (Jonathan Cape) 1955. €1,500 to €2,000.
    Fonsie Mealy’s, Apr 30-May 1: Heaney (Seamus) & Egan (Felim) artist. Squarings, Twelve Poems, D. (Hieroglyph Editions Ltd.) 1991. €1,750 to €2,250.
  • Bonhams, Apr. 21-29: ANDERSEN'S EXTREMELY RARE FIRST APPEARANCE IN PRINT. "Scene af: Røverne i Vissenberg i Fyen." in Harpen, 1822.
    Bonhams, Apr. 21-29: FIRST ISSUE OF THE FIRST THREE FAIRY TALE PAMPHLETS, WITH ALL INDICES AND TITLE PAGES. Eventyr, fortalte for Børn. 1835-1837.
    Bonhams, Apr. 21-29: THE FIRST FAIRY TALES WITH A SIGNED CARTE DE VISITE OF ANDERSEN AS FRONTIS. Eventyr, fortalte for Børn. 1835-1837.
    Bonhams, Apr. 21-29: KARL LAGERFELD. Original pastel and ink drawing in gold, red and black for Andersen's The Emperor's New Clothes (1992), "La cassette de l'Empereur."
    Bonhams, Apr. 21-29: PRESENTATION COPY OF THE SIXTH PAMPHLET FOR PETER KOCH. Eventyr, Fortalte For Børn, Second Series, Third Pamphlet. 1841. Publisher's wrappers, complete with all pre- and post-matter.
    Bonhams, Apr. 21-29: HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN RARE AUTOGRAPH QUOTATION SIGNED IN ENGLISH from "The Ugly Duckling," c.1860s.
    Bonhams, Apr. 21-29: HEINRICH LEFLER, ORIGINAL WATERCOLOR FOR ANDERSEN'S SNOW QUEEN, "Die Schneekönigin," 1910.
    Bonhams, Apr. 21-29: FIRST EDITION OF ANDERSEN'S FAIRY TALES IN ENGLISH. Wonderful Stories for Children. London, 1846.
    Bonhams, Apr. 21-29: ANDERSEN ON MEETING CHARLES DICKENS. Autograph Letter Signed ("H.C. Andersen") in English to William Jerdan, July 20, 1847.
    Bonhams, Apr. 21-29: PRESENTATION COPY FOR EDGAR COLLIN. Nye Eventyr og Historier. Anden Raekke. 1861.
    Bonhams, Apr. 21-29: DOLL HOUSE FURNITURE BY HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSON, DECORATED WITH FANTASTICAL CUT-OUTS, for the children of Jonna Stampe (née Drewsen), his godchildren.
    Bonhams, Apr. 21-29: PRESENTATION COPY FOR GEORG BRANDES. Dryaden. Et Eventyr fra Udstillingstiden i Paris 1867. 1868.
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