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Swann Galleries: Old Master Through Modern Prints

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Auction Name Old Master Through Modern Prints Total Sales (USD) 2,086,995.00
Auction Date May 08, 2018 - May 08, 2018 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 1,620,100.00
Sale Number #2477 High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 2,485,400.00
Total Lots 527
Sold Lots 352 Low Estimate of All Lots (USD) 2,457,100.00
% of Lots Sold 66.79% High Estimate of All Lots (USD) 3,769,900.00
Unsold Lots 175 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 55.36%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
424 HENRI MATISSE

Grand Masque.

1948 USD 50,000.00 - 80,000.00 USD 87,500.00
398 PABLO PICASSO

Tête de femme, de profil.

1905 USD 80,000.00 - 120,000.00 USD 75,000.00
498 MARC CHAGALL (after)

Carmen.

1967 USD 30,000.00 - 50,000.00 USD 62,500.00
138 REMBRANDT VAN RIJN

Jan Uytenbogaert, Preacher of the Remonstrants.

1635 USD 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 USD 57,500.00
196 GIOVANNI B. PIRANESI

Le Antichità Romane.

1756-84. USD 40,000.00 - 60,000.00 USD 52,500.00
260 MARY CASSATT

Under the Horse Chestnut Tree.

1896-97 USD 30,000.00 - 50,000.00 USD 52,500.00
499 MARC CHAGALL

L'Âme du Cirque.

1980 USD 18,000.00 - 22,000.00 USD 42,500.00
18 ALBRECHT DÜRER

St. Eustace.

circa 1501. USD 30,000.00 - 50,000.00 USD 37,500.00
116 REMBRANDT VAN RIJN

Self Portrait in a Fur Cap: Bust.

1630 USD 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 USD 35,000.00
156 REMBRANDT VAN RIJN

Abrahams Sacrifice

1655 USD 30,000.00 - 50,000.00 USD 32,500.00
253 JAMES A. M. WHISTLER

Rue de la Rochefoucault.

1890 USD 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 USD 30,000.00
118 REMBRANDT VAN RIJN

Self Portrait in a Cap, Laughing.

1630 USD 30,000.00 - 50,000.00 USD 27,500.00
252 JAMES A. M. WHISTLER

The Two Doorways.

1879-80. USD 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 USD 25,000.00
265 CLAUDE MONET and GEORGE W. THORNLEY

Femme à l'ombrelle.

circa 1892. USD 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 USD 21,250.00
408 PABLO PICASSO

Goat's Head in Profile.

1952 USD 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 USD 21,250.00
413 PABLO PICASSO

Le Vieux Roi.

1963 USD 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 USD 21,250.00
267 CLAUDE MONET and GEORGE W. THORNLEY

La Gare Saint-Lazare.

circa 1892. USD 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 USD 20,000.00
412 PABLO PICASSO

Le Peintre à la Palette.

1963 USD 12,000.00 - 18,000.00 USD 20,000.00
423 HENRI MATISSE

Diane.

1938 USD 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 USD 20,000.00
340 MARTIN LEWIS

Bedford Street Gang.

1935 USD 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 USD 19,500.00
14 ALBRECHT DÜRER

St. John Devouring the Book.

1498 USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 USD 18,750.00
90 JACQUES BELLANGE

Diana and the Hunter.

USD 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 USD 18,750.00
117 REMBRANDT VAN RIJN

Self Portrait Open Mouthed, as if Shouting: Bust.

1630 USD 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 USD 18,750.00
438 EMIL NOLDE

Prophet.

1912 USD 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 USD 18,750.00
489 SALVADOR DALI

The Twelve Signs of the Zodiac.

1967 USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 USD 17,500.00
  • 19th Century Shop
    Catalogue 198 just published
    19th Century Shop. Darwin and Wallace, first printing of the first paper on natural selection
    19th Century Shop. Shakespeare’s Poems, first collected edition
    19th Century Shop. Walt Whitman portrait inscribed with a Leaves of Grass poem
    19th Century Shop. Major Elizabeth Barrett Browning manuscript notebook
    19th Century Shop. Spock's Baby Book, original MS
    19th Century Shop. Cellarius, Harmonia Macrocosmica, the great celestial atlas
  • Potter & Potter Auctions
    How History Unfolds on Paper:
    Choice Selections from the Eric C. Caren Collection
    Part IX
    April 18, 2024
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: [RUTH, George Herman “Babe” (1895-1948)]. Signed photograph. Circa 1930s. 191 x 248 mm. $1,500 to $2,500.
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: HARRISON, Benjamin. Document signed (“Benj Harrison”) as governor of Virginia, certifying the service of Daniel Cumbo, a Black Revolutionary soldier. $6,000 to $9,000.
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: ONE OF THE FIRST PRINTED ANNOUNCEMENTS OF THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE. $4,000 to $6,000.
    Potter & Potter Auctions
    How History Unfolds on Paper:
    Choice Selections from the Eric C. Caren Collection
    Part IX
    April 18, 2024
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: FIRST PRINTING OF LINCOLN’S IMMORTAL GETTYSBURG ADDRESS. $4,000 to $6,000.
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: HIGHLY IMPORTANT MORMON ARCHIVE. ALLEY, George. Archive of 23 Autograph Letters Signed by Mormon Convert George Alley to His Brother Joseph Alley. $10,000 to $20,000.
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: [AVIATION]. [ARMSTRONG, Neil A.] Aviation Hall of Fame Gold Medal MS64 NGC, Awarded to Neil Armstrong in 1979. $2,000 to $3,000.
    Potter & Potter Auctions
    How History Unfolds on Paper:
    Choice Selections from the Eric C. Caren Collection
    Part IX
    April 18, 2024
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: NEWLY DISCOVERED FIRST PRINTING OF "WITH MALICE TOWARDS NONE... " FROM THE ONLY NEWSPAPER ACTUALLY ALLOWED TO PARTICIPATE IN LINCOLN’S SECOND INAUGURAL PROCESSION. $4,000 to $8,000.
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: THE MOST IMPORTANT GEORGE WASHINGTON DOCUMENT IN PRIVATE HANDS; GEORGE WASHINGTON’S COMMISSION AS COMMANDER IN CHIEF, 1775, ONE OF ONLY TWO ORIGINALS. $150,000 to $250,000.
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: A VERY RARE ACCOUNT OF BLACKBEARD’S DEATH AND ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT PIRATE ITEMS EXTANT. $3,000 to $5,000.
    Potter & Potter Auctions
    How History Unfolds on Paper:
    Choice Selections from the Eric C. Caren Collection
    Part IX
    April 18, 2024
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: EDISON, Thomas. Patent for Edison’s Improvements on the Electric-Light, No. 219,628. [Washington, D.C.: U.S. Patent Office], 16 September 1879. $2,000 to $3,000.
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: [VIETNAM WAR]. The original pen used by Secretary of State William P. Rogers to sign the Vietnam Peace Agreement, Paris, 27 January 1973. $10,000 to $15,000.
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: SONS OF LIBERTY FOUNDER COLONEL BARRÉ ANNOTATED TITLE-PAGE, “WHICH OUGHT TO ROUSE UP BRITISH ATTENTION”. $4,000 to $6,000.
  • Forum Auctions
    Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    28th March 2024
    Forum Mar. 28: [Langland (William)]. The vision of Pierce Plowman, nowe the seconde time imprinted..., Roberte Crowley, 1550. £8,000 to £10,000.
    Forum Mar. 28: [Shakespeare (William)]. [Comedies, Histories, and Tragedies], second folio edition, [by Tho.Cotes, for Robert Allot], [1632]. £30,000 to £40,000.
    Forum Mar. 28: Bible, Czech Biblia Bohemica, first complete Bible printed in the Czech vernacular, Prague, August 1488. £30,000 to £40,000.
    Forum Auctions
    Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    28th March 2024
    Forum Mar. 28: Shabthai Tzvi.- Collection of four printed and illustrated broadsides detailing the appearance, rise and fall of the false messiah, Shabthai Tzvi, Augsburg, 1666-67. £40,000 to £60,000.
    Forum Mar. 28: Leaf from the Beauvais Missal, in Latin, illuminated manuscript on parchment, [Northern France (perhaps Beauvais or Amiens)], [fourteenth century (c.1310)]. £4,000 to £6,000.
    Forum Mar. 28: Aubrey (John). [Remaines of Gentilisme and Judaisme], manuscript in English, Latin and Greek, [c. 1693]. £30,000 to £50,000.
    Forum Auctions
    Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    28th March 2024
    Forum Mar. 28: Byron (George Gordon Noel, Lord). Poems on Various Occasions, first edition, Harriet Maltby's copy, Newark, Printed by S. & J. Ridge, 1807. £30,000 to £40,000.
    Forum Mar. 28: Tolkien (J.R.R.) The Hobbit, first edition, second impression with dust-jacket, 1937 [but 1938]. £7,000 to £10,000.
    Forum Mar. 28: Blake (William).- Thornton (Robert John). The Pastorals of Virgil, 2 vol., engraved plates by William Blake, 1821. £8,000 to £12,000.
    Forum Auctions
    Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    28th March 2024
    Forum Mar. 28: America.- Mount (William J.) & Thomas Page. The English Pilot…, [bound with] The Fourth Book, describing The West Indies Navigation from Hudson's-Bay to the River Amazones, 1721. £20,000 to £30,000.
    Forum Mar. 28: Oldfield (Henry Ambrose), Rajman Singh Chitrakar & others. An album of 160 photographs and 13 original artworks, (1833-1919), [c. 1850s-1880s]. £20,000 to £30,000.
    Forum Mar. 28: Audubon (John James) [and William MacGillivray]. Ornithological Biography…, 5 vol., first edition, presentation copy inscribed by Audubon, Edinburgh, 1831-49 [i.e. 1831-39]. £10,000 to £15,000.
  • 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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    Sotheby’s, Available Now: Ian Fleming. Live and Let Die. First Edition. 9,500 USD
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    Sotheby’s, Available Now: Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell to Arms. First Edition, First Printing. 4,200 USD
  • Bonhams, Mar. 22 – Apr. 2: A RUTH BADER GINSBURG BEADED JUDICIAL COLLAR. $80,000 - $120,000
    Bonhams, Mar. 22 – Apr. 2: ONLY KNOWN COPY OF THE ONLY BOOK BY THE REMARKABLE EVE ADAMS. $8,000 - $12,000
    Bonhams, Mar. 22 – Apr. 2: A COMPLETE RUN OF VISIONAIRE MAGAZINE THROUGH 2010. $6,000 - $9,000
    Bonhams, Mar. 22 – Apr. 2: LAW REVIEW OFFPRINT SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY RUTH BADER GINSBURG. $3,000 - $5,000
    Bonhams, Mar. 22 – Apr. 2: META REBNER'S WORKING SCRIPT OF THE LOVED ONE. $1,500 - $2,000
    Bonhams, Mar. 22 – Apr. 2: A KATHY GROVE PORTRAIT OF CYNDI LAUPER FOR THE FEBRUARY 1989 DETAILS COVER. $800 - $1,200
    Bonhams, Mar. 22 – Apr. 2: A PLASTIC COAT BY MILLIE DAVID FEATURED IN SOHO NEWS STYLE SECTION, FROM THE COLLECTION OF ANNIE FLANDERS. $500 - $700
    Bonhams, Mar. 22 – Apr. 2: A RUTH BADER GINSBURG JEWELRY BOX. $600 - $900
    Bonhams, Mar. 22 – Apr. 2: A SET OF JONI MITCHELL LYRICS FOR "IF I HAD A HEART." $2,000 - $3,000
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