Christies: MICA: THE COLLECTION OF MICA ERTEGUN, 23872, New York

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Auction Date
December 13, 2024 - December 13, 2024
Page Size: 14 items in 1 pages

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
1047 Vladimir Mayakovsky and El Lissitsky, 1923.

Dlia golosa [For the Voice]

Moscow and Berlin 1923 USD 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 USD 10,080.00
1062 SPANISH SCHOOL (19TH CENTURY)

Portfolio with eighty watercolors depicting men and women in traditional costumes

USD 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 USD 11,970.00
1063 John Frederick Lewis, [1838]

Lewis's Illustrations of Constantinople

London [1838]. USD 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 USD 10,710.00
1064 Antione Ignace Melling, 1809-1819

Voyage Pittoresque de Constantinople et du Bosphore

Paris, Strassburg and London [1809-]1819 USD 12,000.00 - 18,000.00 USD 30,240.00
1065 Francis Picabia, 1915

291, no. 5-6

Paris 1915 USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 USD 8,190.00
1066 JASPER JOHNS (B. 1930)

Scott Fagan Record

1970 USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 10,080.00
1067 JASPER JOHNS (B. 1930)

0 through 9

Los Angeles 1978 USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 6,930.00
1085 ELLSWORTH KELLY (1923-2015)

Black/White/Black

Los Angeles 1970 USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 3,024.00
1086 ELLSWORTH KELLY (1923-2015)

Red-Orange/Yellow/Blue

Los Angeles 1970 USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 2,772.00
1088 ANDY WARHOL (1928-1987)

Flowers (Hand-colored): one print

New York USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 13,860.00
1154 HENRI DE TOULOUSE-LAUTREC (1864-1901)

Two prints by the artist

1896 USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 USD 12,600.00
1156 WILLIAM SHARP (1749-1824) and JOHN FISK ALLEN (1807-1876)

Group of four prints from Victoria Regia; or The Great Water Lily of America

Boston 1854 USD 5,000.00 - 10,000.00 USD 5,292.00
1157 John Robert Thornton, 1807

Group of 19 hand-coloured, mezzotint and aquatint engravings from Temple of Flora

London 1799--1807. USD 12,000.00 - 18,000.00 USD 10,080.00
1158 LARRY RIVERS (1923-2002)

Ahmet Combing Hair

circa 1975 USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 USD 7,560.00
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