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Sale Name
Prints and Multiples
Auction Date
06/29/2023 - 06/29/2023
Year of Sale
2023
Sale Number
#DE2320
Total Lots
35
Sold Lots
32
Lots Sold
91.4%
Unsold Lots
3
Price Unknown
0
Total Sales (EUR)
750,697.00
Low Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR)
450,900.00
High Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR)
638,600.00
Low Estimate of All Lots (EUR)
763,900.00
High Estimate of All Lots (EUR)
1,155,600.00
Total Sales as a % of High Est.
64.96%
Currency
EUR
Inflation Adjusted Price in U.S. Dollars
807,979.00

Top twenty five by sale price

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Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
4 PRIVATE COLLECTION, FRANCE Cy Twombly

1967

 EUR 140,000.00 - 200,000.00 254,000.00
2 David Hockney Lithograph of Water Made of Thick and Thin Lines and Two Light Blue Washes

EUR 70,000.00 - 90,000.00 120,650.00
1 Andy Warhol Goethe

1982

 EUR 50,000.00 - 70,000.00 63,500.00
11 View 19. Thumbnail of Lot 11. The Story of Red and Blue. View 20. Thumbnail of Lot 11. The Story of Red and Blue.

1989-90

 EUR 40,000.00 - 60,000.00 48,260.00
7 Gerhard Richter Kerze I

1988

 EUR 12,000.00 - 18,000.00 36,830.00
13 Damien Hirst Methylamine-13C

2014

 EUR 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 21,590.00
14 Josef Albers White Line Squares (Series I): Four Prints

1966

 EUR 18,000.00 - 25,000.00 19,050.00
10 PROPERTY FROM THE ABOUT CHANGE, COLLECTION GERMANY Gert & Uwe Tobias

2009

 EUR 7,000.00 - 9,000.00 17,780.00
34 Joan Miró Untitled, from Joan Miró

1974

 EUR 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 16,510.00
21 Otto Mueller Waldsee mit drei badenden und einem sitzenden Mädchen 2

1918

 EUR 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 16,510.00
5 PROPERTY FROM THE ABOUT CHANGE, COLLECTION GERMANY Gert & Uwe Tobias

2011

 EUR 7,000.00 - 9,000.00 13,970.00
32 Francis Bacon Three Studies for a Self-Portrait

1990

 EUR 12,000.00 - 18,000.00 13,970.00
6 Arnulf Rainer Haute Coiffure

1963

 EUR 12,000.00 - 15,000.00 12,700.00
12 Robert Indiana Decade

1971

 EUR 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 12,700.00
26 Jim Dine The Little Heart in a Landscape

1991

 EUR 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 7,620.00
15 A.R. Penck Expedition to Holyland

1983

 EUR 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 6,985.00
30 A.R. Penck Untitled

circa 1980

 EUR 2,000.00 - 4,000.00 6,985.00
33 After Pablo Picasso Bacchanale

1955

 EUR 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 6,350.00
31 Friedensreich Hundertwasser Regentag Portfolio (Look at it on a rainy day)

1970-72

 EUR 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 6,350.00
18 Sol LeWitt Centered Cube Within a Blue Circle; and Centered Cube Within a Red Circle

1987

 EUR 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 5,080.00
9 Gerhard Richter Mao

EUR 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 5,080.00
17 Thomas Schütte Quengelware II

2003

 EUR 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 4,826.00
3 Rupprecht Geiger Farbraumobjekt

circa 1970

 EUR 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 4,826.00
24 David Hockney In Despair, from Illustrations for Fourteen Poems from C. P. Cavafy

1966

 EUR 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 4,445.00
22 John Baldessari Throwing Three Balls in the Air to Get a Straight Line (Best of Thirty-Six Attempts)

1973

 EUR 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 4,064.00
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    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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    Book Week
    December 9-17, 2025
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    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.
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