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Ketterer Rare Books
Auction May 26thKetterer, May 26: Th. McKenney & J. Hall, History of the Indian tribes of North America, 1836-1844. Est: €50,000Ketterer, May 26: Biblia latina vulgata, manuscript on thin parchment, around 1250. Est: €70,000Ketterer, May 26: M. Beckmann, Fanferlieschen Schönefüßchen, 1924. Est: €10,000Ketterer Rare Books
Auction May 26thKetterer, May 26: A. Ortelius, Theatrum orbis terrarum, 1574. Est: €50,000Ketterer, May 26: M. S. Merian, Eurcarum ortus, alimentum et paradoxa metamorphosis, 1717-18. Est: €6,000Ketterer, May 26: PAN, 9 volumes, 1895-1900. Est: €12,000Ketterer Rare Books
Auction May 26thKetterer, May 26: Breviarium Romanum, Latin manuscript, 1474. Est: €15,000Ketterer, May 26: Quran manuscript from the Saadian period, Maghreb, 16th century. Est: €10,000Ketterer, May 26: E. Hemingway, The old man and the sea, 1952. First edition in first issue jacket. Presentation copy. Est: €3,000Ketterer Rare Books
Auction May 26thKetterer, May 26: Flavius Vegetius Renatus, De re militari libri quatuor, 1553. Est: €3,000Ketterer, May 26: K. Marx, Das Kapital, 1867. Est: €30,000Ketterer, 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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Sotheby's
Sell Your Fine Books & ManuscriptsSotheby’s: The Shem Tov Bible, 1312 | A Masterpiece from the Golden Age of Spain. Sold: 6,960,000 USDSotheby’s: Ten Commandments Tablet, 300-800 CE | One of humanity's earliest and most enduring moral codes. Sold: 5,040,000 USDSotheby’s: William Blake | Songs of Innocence and of Experience. Sold: 4,320,000 USDSotheby’s: The Declaration of Independence | The Holt printing, the only copy in private hands. Sold: 3,360,000 USDSotheby's
Sell Your Fine Books & ManuscriptsSotheby’s: Thomas Taylor | The original cover art for Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone. Sold: 1,920,000 USDSotheby’s: Machiavelli | Il Principe, a previously unrecorded copy of the book where modern political thought began. Sold: 576,000 GBPSotheby’s: Leonardo da Vinci | Trattato della pittura, ca. 1639, a very fine pre-publication manuscript. Sold: 381,000 GBPSotheby’s: Henri Matisse | Jazz, Paris 1947, the complete portfolio. Sold: 312,000 EUR -
Gonnelli
Auction 59
Antique prints, paintings and maps
May 20th 2025Gonnelli: 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 2025Gonnelli 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 2025Gonnelli: 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 2025Gonnelli: 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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Clars Auction Gallery: Modern and Contemporary Art
Auction Reports
Auction Name | Modern and Contemporary Art | Total Sales (USD) | 132,113.50 |
Auction Date | February 20, 2025 - February 20, 2025 | Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) | 79,500.00 |
Sale Number | #22025 | High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) | 120,400.00 |
Total Lots | 54 | ||
Sold Lots | 36 | Low Estimate of All Lots (USD) | 140,300.00 |
% of Lots Sold | 66.67% | High Estimate of All Lots (USD) | 218,000.00 |
Unsold Lots | 18 | Total Sales as a % of High Est. | 60.60% |
Top twenty-five by sale price
Lot Number | Author Name | Book Title | Year Published | Estimate | Actual Price |
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3101 | Yayoi Kusama | A Pumpkin BB-C, |
2004 | USD 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 | USD 39,300.00 |
3126 | Roy Lichtenstein | Crak!, |
1964 | USD 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 | USD 20,960.00 |
3136 | Thomas Hart Benton | After the Blow, |
USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 | USD 13,100.00 | |
3132 | Andy Warhol | Self-Portrait, |
1966 | USD 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 | USD 11,790.00 |
3111 | Richard Diebenkorn | #8 from Nine Drypoints and Etchings, |
1977 | USD 2,000.00 - 4,000.00 | USD 7,205.00 |
3109 | Wayne Thiebaud | Candy Apples (Black Version), |
USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 | USD 6,550.00 | |
3129 | Jasper Johns | Fragment - Acording to What: Leg and Chair, |
1971 | USD 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 | USD 4,912.50 |
3096 | Joan Miro | La Femme, |
1958 | USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 | USD 3,930.00 |
3144 | Michael Kenna | Swings, Catskill Mountains, New York, |
1977 | USD 1,000.00 - 2,000.00 | USD 3,275.00 |
3127 | Alexander Calder | Lune et Etoile Rouge, |
1970 | USD 2,000.00 - 4,000.00 | USD 2,096.00 |
3095 | Joan Miro | La Melodie Acide, |
1980 | USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 | USD 1,703.00 |
3139 | Jerry Uelsmann | Untitled (Philosopher's Desk), |
1976 | USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 | USD 1,703.00 |
3142 | Jerry Uelsmann | Untitled, |
1977 | USD 1,000.00 - 2,000.00 | USD 1,703.00 |
3140 | Jerry Uelsmann | Untitled (Rock and Waterfall), |
1990 | USD 1,000.00 - 2,000.00 | USD 1,310.00 |
3106 | Christopher Brown | Divining Rod, |
1994 | USD 1,000.00 - 2,000.00 | USD 1,048.00 |
3116 | Ron Davis | Cube III from Cube Series, |
1969-1971 | USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 | USD 982.50 |
3105 | Deborah Oropallo | Untitled, |
1988 | USD 400.00 - 600.00 | USD 851.50 |
3093 | Alekos Fassianos | Cycliste Dans le Vent, |
USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | USD 786.00 | |
3114 | Joseph Goldyne | Three Tulips, Three Pots, |
1983 | USD 600.00 - 900.00 | USD 786.00 |
3134 | Animation Cel, Walt Disney Productions | The Jungle Book, Mowgli with Banana, |
USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 | USD 786.00 | |
3137 | Howard Norton Cook | The Desert Tree, |
USD 400.00 - 600.00 | USD 720.50 | |
3145 | Michael Kenna | Broadway Tower Worcestershire, |
1981 | USD 600.00 - 900.00 | USD 655.00 |
3119 | Prints, Robbie Conal | Sex, Drugs, Rock n' Roll, |
1989 | USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 | USD 622.25 |
3121 | Woodblock and Hiroki Morinoue | Afternoon Mist, |
1987 | USD 500.00 - 700.00 | USD 589.50 |
3124 | Kiki Smith | Silent Work, |
1992 | USD 400.00 - 600.00 | USD 589.50 |