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Aspire Art Auctions

Auction Info

Sale Name
Modern and Contemporary Art
Auction Date
09/29/2021 - 09/30/2021
Year of Sale
2021
Sale Number
#92921
Total Lots
26
Sold Lots
11
Lots Sold
42.3%
Unsold Lots
15
Price Unknown
0
Total Sales (ZAR)
1,763,450.00
Low Estimate of Lots Sold (ZAR)
1,530,000.00
High Estimate of Lots Sold (ZAR)
2,180,000.00
Low Estimate of All Lots (ZAR)
3,595,000.00
High Estimate of All Lots (ZAR)
5,105,000.00
Total Sales as a % of High Est.
34.54%
Currency
ZAR
Inflation Adjusted Price in U.S. Dollars
108,888.00

Top twenty five by sale price

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Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
67 William Kentridge West Coast Landscapes, five

2010

 ZAR 400,000.00 - 600,000.00 455,200.00
61 William Kentridge The Battle Between Yes and No

1989

 ZAR 350,000.00 - 400,000.00 341,400.00
82 William Kentridge Universal Archive: Ref 21 A; Ref 21 B; Ref 21 C; Ref 21 D, four

2012

 ZAR 300,000.00 - 500,000.00 341,400.00
63 Mohau Modisakeng Untitled (Frame IV) (from the Dikubu series)

2012

 ZAR 100,000.00 - 150,000.00 193,460.00
72 William Kentridge Untitled I – IV (from The Magic Flute series), four

2007

 ZAR 120,000.00 - 160,000.00 130,870.00
89 Cyrus Kabiru Macho Nne #24 (Nubian Antelope)

2015

 ZAR 60,000.00 - 80,000.00 68,280.00
79 Marlene Dumas Portrait of a Young Nelson Mandela

2008

 ZAR 60,000.00 - 80,000.00 68,280.00
87 David Goldblatt On William Nicol Drive, Johannesburg

1999

 ZAR 50,000.00 - 80,000.00 56,900.00
41 Robert Hodgins Office Redecoration

2009

 ZAR 40,000.00 - 60,000.00 50,072.00
86 David Goldblatt Untitled (Gamkaskloof)

2006

 ZAR 30,000.00 - 40,000.00 34,140.00
131 Jacob van Schalkwyk 01. (Constraint)

2013

 ZAR 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 23,450.00
73 William Kentridge Garibaldi

2016

 ZAR 700,000.00 - 900,000.00 Not Sold
80 Marlene Dumas The Supermodel

1995

 ZAR 120,000.00 - 160,000.00 Not Sold
64 Mohau Modisakeng Passage 5

2017

 ZAR 180,000.00 - 240,000.00 Not Sold
83 William Kentridge William Kentridge Prints

ZAR 50,000.00 - 70,000.00 Not Sold
84 William Kentridge Universal Archive: Ref 21 E

ZAR 80,000.00 - 120,000.00 Not Sold
85 William Kentridge Universal Archive Cats, Ref 17; 18; 19 and 20, four

2012

 ZAR 200,000.00 - 300,000.00 Not Sold
76 Claudette Schreuders The Fall Series, five

2009

 ZAR 60,000.00 - 90,000.00 Not Sold
62 William Kentridge Rumours and Impossibilities

2010

 ZAR 150,000.00 - 250,000.00 Not Sold
88 Mikhael Subotzky Tsunami Houses, Delft (from the 'Umjiegwana' series)

2005

 ZAR 100,000.00 - 150,000.00 Not Sold
7 Walter Whall Battiss The Sleeper, a pair

ZAR 50,000.00 - 80,000.00 Not Sold
90 Justin Dingwall Liberty III (from the series Albus)

2015

 ZAR 15,000.00 - 25,000.00 Not Sold
91 Mikhael Subotzky Tamatie, Beaufort West Prison (from the 'Beaufort West' series)

2006

 ZAR 80,000.00 - 120,000.00 Not Sold
92 Mikhael Subotzky Shackles Pollsmoor Max Prison (from the Die Vier Hoeke series)

2004

 ZAR 50,000.00 - 70,000.00 Not Sold
124 Mary Sibande Ascending

2019

 ZAR 30,000.00 - 50,000.00 Not Sold
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  • <b><center>Heritage Auctions<br>Rare Books Signature Auction<br>December 15, 2025</center></b> <b>Heritage, Dec. 15:</b> John Donne. <i>Poems, By J. D. With Elegies on the Author's Death.</i> London: M[iles]. F[lesher]. for John Marriot, 1633. <b>Heritage, Dec. 15:</b> Edgar Rice Burroughs. <i>Tarzan of the Apes.</i> <b>Heritage, Dec. 15:</b> F. Scott Fitzgerald. <i>Tender is the Night. A Romance.</i> <b>Heritage, Dec. 15:</b> Bram Stoker. <i>Dracula.</i> Westminster: Archibald Constable & Co., 1897. <b>Heritage, Dec. 15:</b> Jerry Thomas. <i>How to Mix Drinks, or the Bon-Vivant's Companion, Containing Clear and Reliable Directions for Mixing All the Beverages Used in the United States…</i>
    Heritage Auctions
    Rare Books Signature Auction
    December 15, 2025
    Heritage, Dec. 15: John Donne. Poems, By J. D. With Elegies on the Author's Death. London: M[iles]. F[lesher]. for John Marriot, 1633.
    Heritage, Dec. 15: Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
    Heritage, Dec. 15: F. Scott Fitzgerald. Tender is the Night. A Romance.
    Heritage, Dec. 15: Bram Stoker. Dracula. Westminster: Archibald Constable & Co., 1897.
    Heritage, Dec. 15: Jerry Thomas. How to Mix Drinks, or the Bon-Vivant's Companion, Containing Clear and Reliable Directions for Mixing All the Beverages Used in the United States…
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  • <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> Autograph Letter Signed ("Martinus Luther") to His Friend the Theologian Gerhard Wiskamp ("Gerardo Xantho Lampadario"). $100,000 - $150,000. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> An Exceptionally Fine Copy of Austenís Emma: A Novel in Three Volumes. $40,000 - $60,000. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> Presentation Copy of Ernest Hemmingwayís A Farewell to Arms for Edward Titus of the Black Mankin Press. $30,000 - $50,000. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> Autograph Manuscript Signed Integrally for "The Songs of Pooh," by Alan Alexander. $30,000 - $50,000. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> Autograph Manuscript of "Three Fragments from Gˆtterd‰mmerung" by Richard Wagner. $30,000 - $50,000. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> Original Preliminary Artwork, for the First Edition of Snow Crash. $20,000 - $30,000. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> Autograph Letter Signed ("T.R. Malthus") to Economist Nassau Senior on Wealth, Labor and Adam Smith. $20,000 - $30,000. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides Finely Bound by Michael Wilcox. $20,000 - $30,000. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> 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. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> Original Artwork for the First Edition of Neal Stephenson's Groundbreaking Novel Snow Crash. $100,000 - $150,000. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> A Complete Set Signed Deluxe Editions of King's The Dark Tower Series by Stephen King. $8,000 - $12,000. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> Autograph Letter Signed ("John Adams") to James Le Ray de Chaumont During the Crucial Years of the Revolutionary War. $8,000 - $12,000.
    Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Letter Signed ("Martinus Luther") to His Friend the Theologian Gerhard Wiskamp ("Gerardo Xantho Lampadario"). $100,000 - $150,000.
    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.
    Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Original Artwork for the First Edition of Neal Stephenson's Groundbreaking Novel Snow Crash. $100,000 - $150,000.
    Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: A Complete Set Signed Deluxe Editions of King's The Dark Tower Series by Stephen King. $8,000 - $12,000.
    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.
  • <center><b>Sotheby’s<br>Book Week<br>December 9-17, 2025</b></center> <b>Sotheby’s, Dec. 17:</b> Francesco Colonna. <i>Hypnerotomachie,</i> Paris, 1546, Parisian calf by Wotton Binder C for Marcus Fugger. €200,000 to €300,000. <b>Sotheby’s, Dec. 17:</b> Nausea. <i>De principiis dialectices Gorgias,</i> and other works, Venice, 1523, morocco gilt for Cardinal Campeggio. €3,000 to €4,000. <b>Sotheby’s, Dec. 17:</b> Billon. <i>Le fort inexpugnable de l'honneur,</i> Paris, 1555, Parisian calf gilt for Peter Ernst, Graf von Mansfeld. €120,000 to €180,000. <center><b>Sotheby’s<br>Book Week<br>December 9-17, 2025</b></center> <b>Sotheby’s, Dec. 16:</b> 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. <b>Sotheby’s, Dec. 16:</b> [Austen, Jane]. A handsome first edition of <i>Sense and Sensibility,</i> the author's first novel. $60,000 to $80,000. <b>Sotheby’s, Dec. 16:</b> 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.
    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.
    Sotheby’s, Dec. 17: Nausea. De principiis dialectices Gorgias, and other works, Venice, 1523, morocco gilt for Cardinal Campeggio. €3,000 to €4,000.
    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.
    Sotheby’s, Dec. 16: [Austen, Jane]. A handsome first edition of Sense and Sensibility, the author's first novel. $60,000 to $80,000.
    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.