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Swann Galleries

Auction Info

Sale Name
19th and 20th Century Prints and Drawings
Auction Date
09/15/2005 - 09/15/2005
Year of Sale
2005
Sale Number
#2049
Total Lots
767
Sold Lots
633
Lots Sold
82.5%
Unsold Lots
134
Price Unknown
0
Total Sales (USD)
2,584,740.00
Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD)
1,647,500.00
High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD)
2,473,300.00
Low Estimate of All Lots (USD)
2,135,300.00
High Estimate of All Lots (USD)
3,206,800.00
Total Sales as a % of High Est.
80.60%
Currency
USD
Inflation Adjusted Price in U.S. Dollars
2,630,230.00

Top twenty five by sale price

View All Auction Lots.
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
77 ROMARE BEARDEN Pittsburgh.

USD 30,000.00 - 50,000.00 106,375.00
78 ROMARE BEARDEN Family.

USD 30,000.00 - 50,000.00 106,375.00
74 ROMARE BEARDEN Blue is the Smoke of War, White the Bones of Men.

USD 70,000.00 - 100,000.00 80,500.00
29 DAVID KAKABADZE Composition.

USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 74,750.00
32 PABLO PICASSO Portrait d'Olga.

circa 1919

 USD 60,000.00 - 90,000.00 64,400.00
95 PHILIP GUSTON Two Forms II.

USD 30,000.00 - 50,000.00 48,300.00
26 ALEXANDER RODCHENKO Composition

1918

 USD 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 46,000.00
25 GEORGES ROUAULT La Miserere.

1922-27

 USD 30,000.00 - 40,000.00 32,200.00
19 EDVARD MUNCH Stehende Frau.

USD 18,000.00 - 22,000.00 29,900.00
43 PORTFOLIO

USD 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 27,600.00
67 LOIS MAILOU JONES Portrait of a Woman with a Cap.

USD 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 27,600.00
65 MARC CHAGALL Soleil au cheval rouge.

1979

 USD 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 27,600.00
76 NORMAN LEWIS Untitled (Abstract Form).

USD 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 25,300.00
53 MARCEL DUCHAMP Nude Descending a Staircase, No. 2.

1937

 USD 25,000.00 - 35,000.00 25,300.00
96 ROY LICHTENSTEIN Crying Girl.

USD 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 25,300.00
33 PABLO PICASSO (after) Gueridon avec Guitare et Partition.

circa 1920

 USD 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 25,300.00
609 PABLO PICASSO (after) Maternite.

1930

 USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 23,000.00
49 LE CORBUSIER Divinite Marine.

1933

 USD 18,000.00 - 22,000.00 20,700.00
66 DOX THRASH WPA SELF-PORTRAIT

circa 1937-8

 USD 5,000.00 - 8,000.00 18,400.00
31 PABLO PICASSO Nature morte

1909

 USD 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 16,100.00
64 MARC CHAGALL Le Bouquet de Nuit.

1976

 USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 16,100.00
403 EDNA BOIES HOPKINS Fig Leaves.

USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 14,950.00
100 ALEXANDER CALDER Our Unfinished Revolution.

USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 14,950.00
702 DOX THRASH Evening Tide.

before 1942

 USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 13,800.00
97 ROY LICHTENSTEIN Crak!

USD 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 13,800.00
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    Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: An Exceptionally Fine Copy of Austenís Emma: A Novel in Three Volumes. $40,000 - $60,000.
    Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Presentation Copy of Ernest Hemmingwayís A Farewell to Arms for Edward Titus of the Black Mankin Press. $30,000 - $50,000.
    Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Manuscript Signed Integrally for "The Songs of Pooh," by Alan Alexander. $30,000 - $50,000.
    Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Manuscript of "Three Fragments from Gˆtterd‰mmerung" by Richard Wagner. $30,000 - $50,000.
    Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Original Preliminary Artwork, for the First Edition of Snow Crash. $20,000 - $30,000.
    Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Letter Signed ("T.R. Malthus") to Economist Nassau Senior on Wealth, Labor and Adam Smith. $20,000 - $30,000.
    Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides Finely Bound by Michael Wilcox. $20,000 - $30,000.
    Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: First Edition of Lewis and Clark: Travels to the Source of the Missouri River and Across the American Continent to the Pacific Ocean. $8,000 - $12,000.
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    Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Letter Signed ("John Adams") to James Le Ray de Chaumont During the Crucial Years of the Revolutionary War. $8,000 - $12,000.
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    Sotheby’s
    Book Week
    December 9-17, 2025
    Sotheby’s, Dec. 17: Francesco Colonna. Hypnerotomachie, Paris, 1546, Parisian calf by Wotton Binder C for Marcus Fugger. €200,000 to €300,000.
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    Sotheby’s, Dec. 17: Billon. Le fort inexpugnable de l'honneur, Paris, 1555, Parisian calf gilt for Peter Ernst, Graf von Mansfeld. €120,000 to €180,000.
    Sotheby’s
    Book Week
    December 9-17, 2025
    Sotheby’s, Dec. 16: Salinger, J.D. The Graham Family archive, including autographed letters, an inscribed Catcher, a rare studio photograph of the author, and more. $120,000 to $180,000.
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    Sotheby’s, Dec. 16: Massachusetts General Court. A powerful precursor to the Declaration of Independence: "every Act of Government … without the Consent of the People, is … Tyranny." $40,000 to $60,000.
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