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Auction Name Contemporary Prints Total Sales (EUR) 192,306.00
Auction Date July 02, 2025 - July 02, 2025 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR) 124,730.00
Sale Number #162889 High Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR) 160,370.00
Total Lots 322
Sold Lots 212.0 Low Estimate of All Lots (EUR) 191,090.00
% of Lots Sold 65.84% High Estimate of All Lots (EUR) 245,170.00
Unsold Lots 110 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 78.44%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
143 Joan Miro (1893-1983)

Pl. pour Les Amis du Musee d'Art Moderne de Paris.

1972 EUR 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 EUR 10,400.00
82 Pablo Picasso (1881-1973)

<> d'apres Rembrandt. (Les 156, pl. 10).

4 fevrier 1970. EUR 4,000.00 - 5,000.00 EUR 7,150.00
67 Pablo Picasso (1881-1973)

Football.

1961 EUR 4,000.00 - 5,000.00 EUR 6,760.00
70 Pablo Picasso (1881-1973)

Cirque: ecuyeres, femmes et spectateurs, dont un garagiste deguise. (Les 347, pl. 43).

20 avril 1968. EUR 5,000.00 - 6,000.00 EUR 5,200.00
81 Pablo Picasso (1881-1973)

Les Coulisses du tableau. Odalisque et peintre. (Les 156, pl. 3).

15 janvier-6 fevrier 1970. EUR 4,000.00 - 5,000.00 EUR 4,940.00
212 Zao Wou-Ki (chinois naturalise francais, 1920-2013)

Composition.

1995 EUR 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 EUR 4,750.00
68 Pablo Picasso (1881-1973)

Peintre et modele au fume-cigarette.

22 octobre 1966. EUR 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 EUR 4,420.00
172 Serge Poliakoff (1900-1969)

Composition grise, rouge et jaune.

1960 EUR 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 EUR 4,000.00
7

Un fort lot par Assadour, Avati, Beaudin, Lars Bo, Conde, Debre, F. Deux, Estebe, Gerarddiaz, Mathieux-Marie, Mockel, Ortner, M. Parre, Ramondot, D. Tanning, Topor, Velickovic, Vieillard, Waroquier, Watanabe, etc.

Annees 1970-1990. EUR 1,200.00 - 1,500.00 EUR 3,900.00
71 Pablo Picasso (1881-1973)

Cape et epee: poursuite, I. (Les 347, pl 88). 15 mai 1968.

Aquatinte. EUR 1,500.00 - 1,800.00 EUR 3,900.00
78 Pablo Picasso (1881-1973)

Peintre avec un modele a demi allonge. (Les 347, pl. 234).

2 aout 1968. EUR 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 EUR 3,640.00
80 Pablo Picasso (1881-1973)

Theatre: adieux a l'ecuyere. (Les 347, pl. 336).

26 septembre 1968. EUR 2,500.00 - 3,000.00 EUR 3,640.00
92 Sam Szafran (Samuel Berger, dit) (1934-2019)

Vegetation a la Besnardiere.

1976 EUR 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 EUR 3,640.00
2

Un fort lot par Avati, Bardone, Clairin, de Coster, Decaris, Doare, Dorny, Gerarddiaz, Guiramand, P.

EUR 1,200.00 - 1,500.00 EUR 3,380.00
79 Pablo Picasso (1881-1973)

Reve eveille du gentilhomme: surprendre, en voyeur, le peintre peignant sur son modele. (Les 347, pl. 294).

24 aout 1968. EUR 2,500.00 - 3,000.00 EUR 3,250.00
93 Sam Szafran (Samuel Berger, dit) (1934-2019)

Vegetation a la Besnardiere.

1976 EUR 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 EUR 3,250.00
270 Bernar Venet (ne en 1941)

Deux lignes indeterminees.

1988 EUR 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 EUR 3,250.00
76 Pablo Picasso (1881-1973)

Portrait-charge d'un des personnages de L'Enterrement du comte d'Orgaz, en larmes. (Les 347, pl. 194).

29 juin 1968. EUR 1,800.00 - 2,000.00 EUR 2,990.00
226 Sonia Delaunay (1885-1979)

Plougastel.

1970 EUR 800.00 - 1,000.00 EUR 2,340.00
77 Pablo Picasso (1881-1973)

Conversation. (Les 347, pl. 210).

20 juillet 1968. EUR 1,000.00 - 1,200.00 EUR 2,210.00
111 Oscar Dominguez (espagnol, 1906-1957)

Pl. pour Paul Eluard, Un poeme dans chaque livre,

1956 EUR 600.00 - 800.00 EUR 2,210.00
74 Pablo Picasso (1881-1973)

Jeune courtisane avec un gentilhomme, un sculpteur et un vieillard alleche. (Les 347, pl. 185).

25 juin 1968. EUR 1,500.00 - 1,800.00 EUR 2,080.00
75 Pablo Picasso (1881-1973)

La Celestine, sa protegee, et un jeune gentilhomme. (Les 347, pl. 190).

26 juin 1968. EUR 1,500.00 - 1,800.00 EUR 2,080.00
10 Georges Braque (1882-1963)

Helios V.

1948 EUR 1,500.00 - 1,800.00 EUR 1,950.00
181 Maria Helena Vieira da Silva (portugaise, 1908-1992)

Pl. pour Rene Char, L'Inclemence lointaine.

1961 EUR 1,200.00 - 1,500.00 EUR 1,950.00
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