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PIASA: Modern and Contemporary Art Serge Aboukrat Inheritance - A Collector's Eye

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Auction Name Modern and Contemporary Art Serge Aboukrat Inheritance - A Collector's Eye Total Sales (EUR) 503,490.00
Auction Date February 19, 2025 - February 19, 2025 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR) 115,500.00
Sale Number #21925 High Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR) 165,450.00
Total Lots 216
Sold Lots 215 Low Estimate of All Lots (EUR) 115,800.00
% of Lots Sold 99.54% High Estimate of All Lots (EUR) 165,850.00
Unsold Lots 1 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 303.58%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
75 Alain Jacquet (1931-2008)

Bulldozer, 1967

1967 EUR 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 EUR 36,400.00
249 Hiroshi Sugimoto (born 1948)

Sea of Japan - Oki V, 1980

1980 EUR 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 EUR 32,500.00
49 Carl Andre (1935-2024)

Ear, 1963

1963 EUR 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 EUR 12,350.00
58 Vik Muniz (born 1961)

Leap into the void (after Yves Klein) from the Pictures of Chocolate series, 1998

1998 EUR 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 EUR 9,100.00
250 Hiroshi Sugimoto (born 1948)

White Mantled Colobus, 1977

1977 EUR 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 EUR 9,100.00
155 Julia Margaret Cameron (1815-1879)

Study of a Magdalen [Mary Ryan], Freshwater, 1874

1874 EUR 500.00 - 700.00 EUR 7,800.00
253 Seydou Keita (1921-2001)

Untitled [Pere et sa fille], 1949-1951

1949-1951 EUR 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 EUR 7,150.00
241 Wolfgang Tillmans (born 1968)

Glam, 1992

1992 EUR 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 EUR 6,890.00
235 Jay Chiat (born 1931)

Insights, 1989

1989 EUR 300.00 - 400.00 EUR 6,760.00
15 Helmut Newton (1920-2004)

Diving Tower, Old Beach Hotel, Monte Carlo, 1981...

EUR 600.00 - 800.00 EUR 6,500.00
272 Sophie Calle (born 1953)

Les Tombes (Father /Mother) series, 1990

1990 EUR 800.00 - 1,200.00 EUR 6,500.00
216 Henri Cartier-Bresson (1908-2004)

London Stock Exchange, Grande-Bretagne, 1955

1955 EUR 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 EUR 5,850.00
244 Wolfgang Tillmans 245. (born 1968)

Room after party, 1992

1992 EUR 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 EUR 5,850.00
245 Nan Goldin (born 1953)

Joey + Cricket at Joey's house dressing, New York, 1991

1991 EUR 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 EUR 5,850.00
265 Philip-Lorca diCorcia (born 1953)

Naples, 1995

1995 EUR 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 EUR 5,850.00
187 Pierre Verger (1902-1996)

Reportage en Espagne, c. 1930

c. 1930 EUR 400.00 - 600.00 EUR 5,460.00
255 Philippe de Gobert (born 1946)

7+nuit, 1998

1998 EUR 400.00 - 600.00 EUR 5,460.00
251 Seydou Keita (1921-2001)

Untitled [L'Odalisque], 1956-1957

1956-1957 EUR 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 EUR 5,200.00
257 Bert Stern (1929-2013)

Marylin, 1962

1962 EUR 800.00 - 1,200.00 EUR 5,200.00
122 Patrick Tosani (born 1954)

Talon ref. 248/38, 1987

1987 EUR 800.00 - 1,200.00 EUR 4,940.00
297 Dolores Marat (born 1944)

Le rafiot sous les chutes, Niagara, 2000

2000 EUR 400.00 - 600.00 EUR 4,550.00
179 Thurston Hopkins (1913-2014)

East end of London, 1954

1954 EUR 600.00 - 800.00 EUR 4,420.00
199 Marc Riboud (1923-2016)

Le peintre de la Tour Eiffel, Paris, 1953

1953 EUR 800.00 - 1,200.00 EUR 4,160.00
229 Gilbert Garcin (1929-2020)

Le moulin de l'oubli, 1999

1999 EUR 500.00 - 700.00 EUR 4,160.00
37 Deborah Turbeville (1932-2013)

Petits appartements...

EUR 300.00 - 400.00 EUR 3,900.00
  • 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
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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
  • SwannPrinted & Manuscript African AmericanaMarch 20, 2025 SwannPrinted & Manuscript African AmericanaMarch 20, 2025
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    Printed & Manuscript African Americana
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    Printed & Manuscript African Americana
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    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.
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    Printed & Manuscript African Americana
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    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.
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