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Venator and Hanstein: Modern and Contemporary Prints - Contemporary Books

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Auction Name Modern and Contemporary Prints - Contemporary Books Total Sales (EUR) 310,636.50
Auction Date March 17, 2018 - March 17, 2018 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR) 222,200.00
Sale Number #149 High Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR) 222,200.00
Total Lots 386
Sold Lots 212 Low Estimate of All Lots (EUR) 415,090.00
% of Lots Sold 54.92% High Estimate of All Lots (EUR) 415,090.00
Unsold Lots 174 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 74.84%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
1418 ANDY WARHOL 1928 – 1987

COLOGNE CATHEDRAL 1985

1985 EUR 20.00 - 20.00 EUR 34,440.00
913 MARCEL BROODTHAERS 1924 – 1976

GEDICHT / POEM / POEME – CHANGE / EXCHANGE / WECHSEL 1973

1973 EUR 8,000.00 - 8,000.00 EUR 13,530.00
1168 ROY LICHTENSTEIN 1923 – 1997

SHIPBOARD GIRL 1965

1965 EUR 15,000.00 - 15,000.00 EUR 12,300.00
1309 GERHARD RICHTER 1932

SCHWEIZER ALPEN A2 (AUS: SCHWEIZER ALPEN I) 1969

1969 EUR 9,000.00 - 9,000.00 EUR 10,455.00
1169 ROY LICHTENSTEIN 1923 – 1997

REAL ESTATE 1969 (1971)

1969 EUR 6,000.00 - 6,000.00 EUR 9,225.00
1311 GERHARD RICHTER 1932

SCHWEIZER ALPEN B3 (AUS: SCHWEIZER ALPEN I) 1969

1969 EUR 9,000.00 - 9,000.00 EUR 9,225.00
1378 GÜNTHER UECKER 1930

AUS: VOM LICHT (1974)

1974 EUR 1,500.00 - 1,500.00 EUR 7,380.00
1287 SERGE POLIAKOFF 1900 – 1969

KOMPOSITION IN BURGUNDERROT, GELB UND SCHWARZ 1961

1961 EUR 4,500.00 - 4,500.00 EUR 6,150.00
1167 SOL LEWITT 1928 – 2007

WAVY LINES ON GREY 1998

1998 EUR 6,000.00 - 6,000.00 EUR 5,535.00
1188 MAPPENWERKE / SAMMLUNGEN

BEETHOVEN 2000 ... DIESEN KUSS DER GANZEN WELT 2000

2000 EUR 5,000.00 - 5,000.00 EUR 5,289.00
934 MARC CHAGALL 1887 – 1985

TEMPLE ET HISTOIRE DE BACCHUS (AUS: DAPHNIS ET CHLOÉ) 1961

1961 EUR 5,000.00 - 5,000.00 EUR 5,166.00
823 GEORG BASELITZ 1938

REBELL 1965

1965 EUR 2,500.00 - 2,500.00 EUR 4,920.00
961 KEES VAN DONGEN 1877 – 1968

ARC DE TRIOMPHE (2) / DANS LE PARC (2) / LE CAROUSSEL / LE RENCONTRE AU BOIS / MAUD / PLACE VENDÔME

EUR 1,500.00 - 1,500.00 EUR 4,059.00
915 MARCEL BROODTHAERS 1924 – 1976

DAS RECHT 1972

1972 EUR 2,400.00 - 2,400.00 EUR 3,936.00
1365 ANTONI TÀPIES 1923 – 2012

SUITE 63 X 90 1980

1980 EUR 3,200.00 - 3,200.00 EUR 3,321.00
1318 PIPILOTTI RIST 1962

CLN-4711 (BLUE EYE) 1999

1999 EUR 1,500.00 - 1,500.00 EUR 2,952.00
1489 SIEGELAUB, SETH U. J. WENDLER (Hrsg.)

Carl Andre, Robert Barry, Douglas Huebler, Joseph Kosuth, Sol LeWitt, Robert Morris, LawrenceWeiner (The Xerox Book).

1986 EUR 2,000.00 - 2,000.00 EUR 2,952.00
1015 RUPPRECHT GEIGER 1908 – 2009

VARIATION RUNDE FARBE I, III – V 1968

1968 EUR 1,200.00 - 1,200.00 EUR 2,460.00
1225 JOAN MIRÓ 1893 – 1983

PAROLES PEINTES V 1975

1975 EUR 1,800.00 - 1,800.00 EUR 2,337.00
1091 FRIEDENSREICH HUNDERTWASSER 1928 – 2000

GOOD MORNING CITY – BLEEDING TOWN (MIT PHOSPHORFARBEN ÜBERARBEITETE AUSGABE) 1970/1971

1970 EUR 1,800.00 - 1,800.00 EUR 2,214.00
956 SALVADOR DALI 1904 – 1989

ARGUS 1963/65

1963 EUR 1,500.00 - 1,500.00 EUR 2,091.00
1157 WILHELM LEHMBRUCK 1881 – 1919

NIEDERGEDRÜCKTE 1912

1912 EUR 500.00 - 500.00 EUR 2,091.00
1459 CHAGALL, MARC

Vitraux pour Jerusalem.

1963 EUR 1,500.00 - 1,500.00 EUR 2,091.00
1191 MAPPENWERKE / SAMMLUNGEN

CHELM I / CHELM II 1994

1994 EUR 2,000.00 - 2,000.00 EUR 1,968.00
1465 FINI, LEONOR

JAN POTOCKI: Manuscrit trouvé à Saragosse. Édité par la Compagnie des Bibliophiles du Livred’Artet de l’Amérique Latine. Préface par Roger Caillois.

1961 EUR 2,000.00 - 2,000.00 EUR 1,968.00
  • Sotheby’s
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    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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  • 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.
  • Jeschke Jadi
    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.
  • Fonsie Mealy’s
    Rare Book & Collectors Sale
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    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: McCarthy (Cormac). Cities of the Plain, N.Y., 1998, First Edn., signed on hf. title; together with Uncorrected Proof and Uncorrected Advance Reading Copies, both signed by the Author. €800 to €1,000.
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: Stanihurst (Richard). De Rebus in Hibernia Gestis, Libri Quattuor, sm. 4to Antwerp (Christi. Plantium) 1584. First Edn. €525 to €750.
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: Fleischer (Nat.) Jack Dempsey The Idol of Fistiana, An Intimate Narrative, N.Y., 1929, First Edn. Signed on f.e.p. by Rocky Marciano. €400 to €600.
    Fonsie Mealy’s
    Rare Book & Collectors Sale
    24th April 2024
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: Smith - Classical Atlas, Lond., 1820. Bound with, Smiths New General Atlas .. Principal Empires, Kingdoms, & States throughout the World, Lond. 1822. €350 to €500.
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: Rare Auction Catalogues – 1856: Bindon Blood, of Ennis, Co. Clare: Sotheby & Wilkinson. €320 to €450.
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: [Mavor (Wm.)] A General Collection of Voyages and Travels from the Discovery of America to the Commencement of the Nineteenth Century, 28 vols. (complete) Lond., 1810. €300 to €400.
    Fonsie Mealy’s
    Rare Book & Collectors Sale
    24th April 2024
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: Mc Carthy (Cormac). Outer Dark, N.Y. (Random House)1968, Signed by Mc Carthy. €250 to €300.
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: Three signed works by Ted Huges - Wodwo, 1967; Crow from the Life and Songs of the Crow, 1970; and Tales from Ovid, 1997. €200 to €300.
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: The Garden. An Illustrated Weekly Journal of Horticulture in all its Branches, 7 vols. lg. 4to Lond. 1877-1880. With 127 colored plates. €200 to €300.
    Fonsie Mealy’s
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    24th April 2024
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: Procter (Richard A.) Saturn and its System: Containing Discussions of The Motion (Real and Apparent)…, Lond. 1865. First Edn. €160 to €220.
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: [Ashe] St. George, Lord Bishop of Clogher, A Sermon Preached to the Protestants of Ireland, now in London,... Oct. 23, 1712, London 1712. Second Edn. €130 to €180.
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