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Swann Galleries: 19th and 20th Century Prints and Drawings

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Auction Name 19th and 20th Century Prints and Drawings Total Sales (USD) 2,605,863.00
Auction Date March 13, 2018 - March 13, 2018 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 1,916,200.00
Sale Number #2469 High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 2,923,300.00
Total Lots 575
Sold Lots 418 Low Estimate of All Lots (USD) 2,838,500.00
% of Lots Sold 72.70% High Estimate of All Lots (USD) 4,311,500.00
Unsold Lots 157 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 60.44%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
145 EDWARD HOPPER

House by a River.

1919 USD 100,000.00 - 150,000.00 USD 100,000.00
316 PABLO PICASSO

La Colombe.

1949 USD 50,000.00 - 80,000.00 USD 67,500.00
301 AMEDEO MODIGLIANI

Femme nue, trois quarts, debout.

circa 1915 USD 50,000.00 - 80,000.00 USD 50,000.00
317 PABLO PICASSO

Téte de jeune femme.

1947 USD 30,000.00 - 50,000.00 USD 50,000.00
166 MARTIN LEWIS

New York Nocturne.

circa 1930 USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 USD 47,500.00
256 DIEGO RIVERA

El sueño (La noche de los pobres).

1932 USD 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 USD 40,000.00
299 FRANCIS PICABIA

Sans Titre (Transparence).

circa 1930s USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 USD 40,000.00
146

Six American Etchings, Series I.

1924 USD 30,000.00 - 50,000.00 USD 37,500.00
471 JOAN MIRÓ

Maja Negra.

1973 USD 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 USD 35,000.00
549 HENRY MOORE

Half Figure.

1952 USD 30,000.00 - 50,000.00 USD 35,000.00
255 DIEGO RIVERA

Zapata.

1932 USD 25,000.00 - 35,000.00 USD 32,500.00
62 CLAUDE MONET

Maison au toit de chaume, Gainneville.

1857 USD 25,000.00 - 35,000.00 USD 30,000.00
259 DIEGO RIVERA

Niña sentada.

circa 1940s USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 USD 30,000.00
187 BENTON SPRUANCE

Riders of the Apocalypse.

1943 USD 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 USD 27,500.00
257 DIEGO RIVERA

Frutos de la Escuela.

1932 USD 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 USD 27,500.00
325 PABLO PICASSO

Flower Women.

1948 USD 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 USD 27,000.00
169 MARTIN LEWIS

Bedford Street Gang.

1935 USD 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 USD 25,000.00
366 GEORGES BRAQUE

Femme au bicyclette.

1920-22 USD 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 USD 25,000.00
147 JOHN MARIN

Brooklyn Bridge and Lower New York.

1913 USD 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 USD 23,750.00
65 CLAUDE MONET and GEORGE W. THORNLEY

Femme au Chevalet.

circa 1892 USD 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 USD 22,950.00
336 PABLO PICASSO

Femme endormie.

1962 USD 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 USD 22,500.00
249 STUART DAVIS

Detail Study for Cliché.

1957 USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 USD 20,000.00
260 DIEGO RIVERA

Almuerzo.

1937 USD 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 USD 20,000.00
324 PABLO PICASSO

Engraved Bottle.

1954 USD 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 USD 20,000.00
473 JOAN MIRÓ

Le Grand Ordonnateur.

1969 USD 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 USD 20,000.00
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    Auction 151
    Saturday, April 27, 2024
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 546. Christoph Jacob Trew. Plantae selectae, 1750-1773.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 70. Thomas Murner. Die Narren beschwerung. 1558.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 621. Michael Bernhard Valentini. Museum Museorum, 1714.
    Jeschke Jadi
    Auction 151
    Saturday, April 27, 2024
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 545. Sander Reichenbachia. Orchids illustrated and described, 1888-1894.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 1018. Marinetti, Boccioni, Pratella Futurism - Comprehensive collection of 35 Futurist manifestos, some of them exceptionally rare. 1909-1933.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 634. August Johann Rösel von Rosenhof. 3 Original Drawings, around 1740.
    Jeschke Jadi
    Auction 151
    Saturday, April 27, 2024
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 671. Jacob / Picasso. Chronique des Temps, 1956.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 1260. Mary Webb. Sarn. 1948. Lucie Weill Art Deco Binding.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 508. Felix Bonfils. 108 large-format photographs of Syria and Palestine.
    Jeschke Jadi
    Auction 151
    Saturday, April 27, 2024
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 967. Dante Aligheri and Salvador Dali. Divina Commedia, 1963.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 1316. Tolouse-Lautrec. Dessinateur. Duhayon binding, 1948.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 1303. Regards sur Paris. Braque, Picasso, Masson, 1962.
  • Sotheby’s
    Modern First Editions
    Available for Immediate Purchase
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: Winston Churchill. The Second World War. Set of First-Edition Volumes. 6,000 USD
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: A.A. Milne, Ernest H. Shepard. A Collection of The Pooh Books. Set of First-Editions. 18,600 USD
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: Salvador Dalí, Lewis Carroll. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. Finely Bound and Signed Limited Edition. 15,000 USD
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    Modern First Editions
    Available for Immediate Purchase
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: Ian Fleming. Live and Let Die. First Edition. 9,500 USD
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: J.K. Rowling. Harry Potter Series. Finely Bound First Printing Set of Complete Series. 5,650 USD
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell to Arms. First Edition, First Printing. 4,200 USD
  • Doyle, May 1: Thomas Jefferson expresses fears of "a war of extermination" in Saint-Dominigue. $40,000 to $60,000.
    Doyle, May 1: An exceptional presentation copy of Fitzgerald's last book, in the first issue dust jacket. $25,000 to $35,000.
    Doyle, May 1: The rare first signed edition of Dorian Gray. $15,000 to $25,000.
    Doyle, May 1: The Prayer Book of Jehan Bernachier. $10,000 to $15,000.
    Doyle, May 1: Van Dyck's Icones Principum Virorum Doctorum. $10,000 to $15,000.
    Doyle, May 1: The magnificent Cranach Hamlet in the deluxe binding by Dõrfner. $7,000 to $10,000.
    Doyle, May 1: A remarkable unpublished manuscript of a voyage to South America in 1759-1764. $3,000 to $5,000.
    Doyle, May 1: Bouchette's monumental and rare wall map of Lower Canada. $12,000 to $18,000.
    Doyle, May 1: An rare original 1837 abolitionist woodblock. $8,000 to $12,000.
    Doyle, May 1: An important manuscript breviary in Middle Dutch. $15,000 to $25,000.
    Doyle, May 1: An extraordinary Old Testament manuscript, circa 1250. $20,000 to $30,000.
  • Leland Little, Apr. 26: First Edition of Piccolomini's De La Sfera del Mondo (The Sphere of the World), 1540.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: First Edition of Vellutello's Commentary on Petrarch, With Map, 1525.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: Finely Bound Definitive, Illustrated Edition of I Promessi Sposi, 1840.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: Rare First Edition of John Milton's Latin Correspondence, 1674.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: Giolito's Edition of Boccaccio's The Decamerone, with Bedford Binding, 1542.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: First Edition of the First Biography of Marie of the Incarnation, with Rare Portrait, 1677.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: First Aldine Edition of Volume One of Cicero's Orationes, 1540.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: First Edition of Bonanni's Illustrated Costume Catalogue, with Complete Plates, 1711.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: An Important Incunable, the First Italian Edition of Josephus's De Bello Judaico, 1480.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: First Edition of Jacques Philippe d'Orville's Illustrated Book of the Ruins of Sicily, 1764.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: An Incunable from 1487, The Contemplative Life, with Early Manuscript.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: Ignatius of Loyola's Exercitia Spiritualia, 1563.
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