Rago Arts and Auctions: Toomey and Co.: Prints and Multiples, 110824, Chicago

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Auction Report
Auction Date
November 08, 2024 - November 08, 2024
Page Size: 165 items in 7 pages

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
100 Grant Wood 1891--1942

Tree Planting Group

New York 1937 USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 6,450.00
101 Thomas Hart Benton 1889--1975

Arkansas Evening (or Nebraska Evening)

New York 1941 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 4,032.00
102 Grant Wood 1891--1942

December Afternoon

New York 1941 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 Not Sold
103 Clare Leighton 1898--1989

Loading (from The Lumber Camp series)

1931 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 2,016.00
104 Louis Lozowick 1892--1973

Williamsburg Bridge

New York 1930 USD 1,800.00 - 2,400.00 USD 2,358.00
105 John Marin 1870--1953

Downtown, the El (from the Six American Etchings series)

New York 1921 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 2,142.00
106 James Allen 1894--1964

The Connectors

1934 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 1,806.00
107 Benton Spruance 1904--1967

The People Work - Night (from The People Work series)

1937 USD 1,800.00 - 2,400.00 USD 3,096.00
108 Martin Lewis 1881--1962

Rainy Day, Queens

1931 USD 12,000.00 - 18,000.00 Not Sold
109 Martin Lewis 1881--1962

Rain on Murray Hill

1928 USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 Not Sold
110 John Marin 1870--1953

The Lobster Fisherman (from the John Marin: Drawings and Watercolors portfolio)

New York 1948 / 1950 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 258.00
111 Martin Lewis 1881--1962

Boss of the Block

c.1939 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 819.00
112 Marsden Hartley 1877--1943

Apples on a Table

1923 USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 USD 441.00
113 John Henry Twachtman 1853--1902

Dock at Newport

1893 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 258.00
114 Childe Hassam 1859--1935

Avenue of the Allies

1918 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 2,064.00
115 Childe Hassam 1859--1935

Spring, Central Park

1916 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 839.00
116 Paul Landacre 1893--1963

Sultry Day

New York 1937 USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 USD 1,638.00
117 James Swann 1905--1985

Rainy Night (Chicago)

1951 USD 500.00 - 700.00 USD 1,008.00
118 Carl Hoeckner 1883--1972

The Death of Truth

1930s USD 500.00 - 700.00 USD 393.00
119 Gene Kloss 1903--1996

San Francisco Bay

1930 USD 500.00 - 700.00 USD 945.00
120 Peter Milton b.1930

Water Music (from the Interiors V series)

1988 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 819.00
121 Dox Thrash 1893--1965

Hobo with a Satchel

c.1945 USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 Not Sold
122 Hans Hofmann 1880--1966

Untitled (Woman's Head)

USD 500.00 - 700.00 USD 441.00
123 Charles Sheeler 1883--1965

Architectural Cadences

NY and Los Angeles 1954 USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 2,772.00
124 Sybil Andrews 1898--1992

Flower Girls

1934 USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 6,048.00
  • Il Ponte, Feb. 25-26: ALDROVANDI, Ulisse (1522-1605) - [Opera omnia]. Bologna: Bellagamba, Benacci, Bonomi, Tebaldini, Ferroni, 1599-1668. €22.000-€28.000
    Il Ponte, Feb. 25-26: [CANALETTO] - VISENTINI, Antonio (1688-1782) da Giovanni Antonio CANAL (1697-1768, detto 'Il Canaletto') - Urbis Venetiarum prospectus celebriores. Venezia: Giovanni Battista Pasquale, 1742-51. €7.000-€10.000
    Il Ponte, Feb. 25-26: LA FONTAINE, Jean de (1621-1695) - Fables Choisies. Parigi: Claude Barbin, 1668. €7.000-€10.000
    Il Ponte, Feb. 25-26: MERCATOR, Rumold (1545-1599) - [I continenti] - Europa; Africa; America Sive India Nova; Asia. Amsterdam: S.d. [ca. 1633]. €2.000-€3.000
  • Sotheby's
    Sell Your Fine Books & Manuscripts
    Sotheby’s: The Shem Tov Bible, 1312 | A Masterpiece from the Golden Age of Spain. Sold: 6,960,000 USD
    Sotheby’s: Ten Commandments Tablet, 300-800 CE | One of humanity's earliest and most enduring moral codes. Sold: 5,040,000 USD
    Sotheby’s: William Blake | Songs of Innocence and of Experience. Sold: 4,320,000 USD
    Sotheby’s: The Declaration of Independence | The Holt printing, the only copy in private hands. Sold: 3,360,000 USD
    Sotheby's
    Sell Your Fine Books & Manuscripts
    Sotheby’s: Thomas Taylor | The original cover art for Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone. Sold: 1,920,000 USD
    Sotheby’s: Machiavelli | Il Principe, a previously unrecorded copy of the book where modern political thought began. Sold: 576,000 GBP
    Sotheby’s: Leonardo da Vinci | Trattato della pittura, ca. 1639, a very fine pre-publication manuscript. Sold: 381,000 GBP
    Sotheby’s: Henri Matisse | Jazz, Paris 1947, the complete portfolio. Sold: 312,000 EUR
  • Old World Auctions (Feb 12):
    Lot 746. Speed's Dual Atlas of Britain & the World with 96 Maps (1676). Est. $70,000 - $85,000
    Old World Auctions (Feb 12):
    Lot 9. Visscher's Superb Double-Hemisphere World Map with Representations of the Elements (1658). Est. $4,750 - $6,000
    Old World Auctions (Feb 12):
    Lot 58. One of the Most Important 16th Century Maps of the New World (1554). Est. $5,000 - $6,000
    Old World Auctions (Feb 12):
    Lot 745. A Complete Example of Ortelius' Atlas of Ancient Geography (1624). Est. $12,000 - $15,000
    Old World Auctions (Feb 12):
    Lot 73. First English Map to Show California as an Island (1625). Est. $16,000 - $19,000
    Old World Auctions (Feb 12):
    Lot 156. Bachmann's Dramatic View of the Mid-Atlantic Region (1861). Est. $1,800 - $2,200
    Old World Auctions (Feb 12):
    Lot 741. Early Announcement of Continental Congress' Declaration of Independence (1776). Est. $9,000 - $11,000
    Old World Auctions (Feb 12):
    Lot 695. The First Printed Map Devoted to the Pacific (1589). Est. $8,000 - $9,500
    Old World Auctions (Feb 12):
    Lot 733. Superb Image of the Presentation of Jesus in Hand Color (1502). Est. $700 - $850
    Old World Auctions (Feb 12):
    Lot 52. Produced by the Psychological Warfare Branch to Encourage Surrender (1945). Est. $200 - $230
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