Auction Reports
Bonhams
Auction Info
- Auction Name
- The Gift of Photographs - bidstart 12/4
- Auction Date
- 12/14/2020 - 12/14/2020
- Sale Number
- #26096
- Total Lots
- 152
- Sold Lots
- 81
- Lots Sold
- 53.29%
- Unsold Lots
- 71
- Total Sales (USD)
- 211,091.00
- Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD)
- 184,500.00
- High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD)
- 266,400.00
- Low Estimate of All Lots (USD)
- 384,100.00
- High Estimate of All Lots (USD)
- 558,800.00
- Total Sales as a % of High Est.
- 37.78%
Top twenty by sale price
| Lot Number | Author Name | Book Title | Year Published | Estimate | Actual Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 67 | Ansel Adams | Winter Sunrise, Sierra Nevada from Lone Pine, California |
1944, printed 1970s | USD 25,000.00 - 35,000.00 | USD 25,312.00 |
| 49 | Herb Ritts | Male Nude, Front View, Hollywood |
1989 | USD 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 | USD 10,837.00 |
| 128 | Ansel Adams | Moon and Half Dome, Yosemite |
1960, printed later | USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 | USD 9,562.00 |
| 146 | Richard Avedon | Igor Stavinsky, Composer, New York City |
USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 | USD 8,287.00 | |
| 65 | Hiroshi Sugimoto | Atlantic Ocean, Newfoundland; and Atlantic Ocean, Martha's Vineyard, from "Time Exposed" 2 |
1982 | USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | USD 7,650.00 |
| 21 | Henri Cartier-Bresson | Interlude at the Glyndebourne Opera, East Sussex |
1953, printed later | USD 7,000.00 - 9,000.00 | USD 6,375.00 |
| 45 | Horst P. Horst | Male Nude, New York |
1952, printed later | USD 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 | USD 6,375.00 |
| 47 | Herb Ritts | Duo VII, Los Angeles |
1990 | USD 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 | USD 6,375.00 |
| 46 | Herb Ritts | Splash, Hollywood |
1989 | USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 | USD 5,355.00 |
| 148 | Ara Guler | Aerial studies, Noah's Ark, Mount Ararat and Mount Tunduruk |
1960 | USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 | USD 5,355.00 |
| 37 | Cindy Sherman | Untitled (Homage to Claude Cahun) |
1979, printed 2004 | USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 | USD 5,100.00 |
| 3 | Ruth Orkin | White Stoops, West 88th Street, New York City, |
1952, printed later | USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | USD 4,462.00 |
| 66 | Alec Soth | Falls #34 |
2005 | USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 | USD 3,825.00 |
| 108 | Helmut Newton | Rome |
1977 | USD 3,000.00 - 3,500.00 | USD 3,825.00 |
| 138 | Hans Finsler and Sergio Libis | Untitled (Color studies) |
USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 | USD 3,825.00 | |
| 117 | Loomis Dean | Newspaper boy in the middle of Los Angeles traffic, looking south on Olive Street |
1949, printed 2004 | USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | USD 3,570.00 |
| 18 | Roy Schatt | James Dean |
1954, printed later | USD 2,500.00 - 3,500.00 | USD 3,187.00 |
| 88 | Ernst Haas | Times Square Reflection, New York City |
1962, printed later | USD 2,500.00 - 3,500.00 | USD 3,187.00 |
| 39 | Horst P. Horst | Male Nude II, New York |
1952, printed later | USD 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 | USD 2,805.00 |
| 12 | Bill Brandt | Aldeburgh Beach |
1940, printed later | USD 2,500.00 - 3,500.00 | USD 2,550.00 |
