Christies: A Graphic Century, 23521, New York

Auction Details

Auction Report
Auction Date
November 19, 2025 - November 19, 2025
Page Size: 217 items in 9 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
52 MARC CHAGALL (1887-1985)

La femme du peintre

1971 USD 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 USD 16,510.00
53 CHRISTO (1935-2020)

Packed Tower, Spoleto, Italy

New York 1970 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 254.00
54 EDGAR DEGAS (1834-1917)

A collection of twenty-one prints from the artist's canceled plates

Paris circa 1879-1880 USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 2,794.00
55 EDGAR DEGAS (1834-1917)

La Toilette

circa 1877-1885 USD 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 Not Sold
56 SONIA DELAUNAY (1884-1979)

Two prints by the artist Including: Untitled,

1964 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 4,445.00
57 SONIA DELAUNAY (1884-1979)

Gravure II (Composition rouge, vert, bleu et noir)

Paris 1969 USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 3,556.00
59 RICHARD DIEBENKORN (1922-1993)

Untitled (from Club/Spade Group '81-82), from Eight by Eight to Celebrate the Temporary Contemporary

Los Angeles 1982 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 1,905.00
60 JIM DINE (B. 1935)

Self-Portrait: The Landscape

London 1969 USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 4,445.00
61 JIM DINE (B. 1935)

Self-Portrait in a Ski Hat (obliterated by tulips) fourth state

London 1974 USD 300.00 - 350.00 USD 1,651.00
62 JIM DINE (B. 1935)

Two prints by the artist

West Islip, New York 1975 USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 USD 508.00
63 JIM DINE (B. 1935)

Dynamite

1998 USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 Not Sold
64 JEAN DUBUFFET (1901-1985)

Parade nuptiale, from Cahier de l'Herne

1973 USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 4,064.00
65 MAURITS CORNELIS ESCHER (1898-1972)

The Bridge

1930 USD 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 USD 30,480.00
66 MAURITS CORNELIS ESCHER (1898-1972)

Randazzo and Mount Etna, Sicily

1933 USD 12,000.00 - 18,000.00 USD 57,150.00
67 DAN FLAVIN (1933-1996)

for one walled circular fluorescent light (to Heiner Friedrich)

New York 1974 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 889.00
68 DAN FLAVIN (1933-1996)

Sixth Sails (to Jim Fields) (1-4)

New York 1983 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 1,651.00
69 SAM FRANCIS (1923-1994)

Untitled [SFE-054]

Santa Monica 1989 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 1,397.00
70 GLENN GOLDBERG (B. 1953)

Coil Print

1986 USD 100.00 - 150.00 Not Sold
71 NANCY GRAVES (1939-1995)

Stuck, the Flies Buzzed

Rome 1990 USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 1,778.00
72 HANS HARTUNG (1904-1989)

[Untitled]

circa 1950 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 1,016.00
73 BARBARA HEPWORTH (1903-1975)

Two Opposing Forms, from Opposing Forms

London 1970 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 3,810.00
74 DAVID HOCKNEY (B. 1937)

The Boy Hidden in a Fish, from Illustrations for Six Fairy Tales from the Brothers Grimm

London 1969 USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 4,445.00
75 DAVID HOCKNEY (B. 1937)

Brenda

New York 1998 USD 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 USD 5,334.00
76 DAVID HOCKNEY (B. 1937)

A Bigger Book

Cologne, Germany 2016 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 2,794.00
77 JASPER JOHNS (B. 1930)

Light Bulb

West Islip, New York 1966 USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 3,302.00
  • SD Scandinavian Art & Rare Book Auctions
    The Odfjell Collection
    Polar – History – Ornithology – Colour Plate Books
    Ending December 4th
    Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4: ROALD AMUNDSEN: «Sydpolen» [ The South Pole] 1912. First edition in jackets and publisher's slip case.
    Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4: AMUNDSEN & NANSEN: «Fram over Polhavet» [Farthest North] 1897. AMUNDSEN's COPY!
    Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4: ERNEST SHACKLETON [ed.]: «Aurora Australis» 1908. First edition. The NORWAY COPY.
    Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4: ERNEST SHACKLETON: «The heart of the Antarctic» + SUPPLEMENT «The Antarctic Book», 1909.
    Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4: SHACKLETON, BERNACCHI, CHERRY-GARRARD [ed.]: «The South Polar Times» I-III, 1902-1911.
    SD Scandinavian Art & Rare Book Auctions
    The Odfjell Collection
    Polar – History – Ornithology – Colour Plate Books
    Ending December 4th
    Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4: [WILLEM BARENTSZ & HENRY HUDSON] - SAEGHMAN: «Verhael van de vier eerste schip-vaerden […]», 1663.
    Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4: TERRA NOVA EXPEDITION | LIEUTENANT HENRY ROBERTSON BOWERS: «At the South Pole.», Gelatin Silver Print. [10¾ x 15in. (27.2 x 38.1cm.) ].
    Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4: ELEAZAR ALBIN: «A natural History of Birds.» + «A Supplement», 1738-40. Wonderful coloured plates.
    Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4: PAUL GAIMARD: «Voyage de la Commision scientific du Nord, en Scandinavie, […]», c. 1842-46. ONLY HAND COLOURED COPY KNOWN WITH TWO ORIGINAL PAINTINGS BY BIARD.
    Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4: JAMES JOYCE: «Ulysses», 1922. FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS.
  • Sotheby’s
    Book Week
    December 9-17, 2025
    Sotheby’s, Dec. 11: Darwin and Wallace. On the Tendency of Species to form Varieties..., [in:] Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society, Vol. III, No. 9., 1858, Darwin announces the theory of natural selection. £100,000 to £150,000.
    Sotheby’s, Dec. 11: J.K. Rowling. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, 1997, first edition, hardback issue, inscribed by the author pre-publication. £100,000 to £150,000.
    Sotheby’s, Dec. 11: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Autograph sketchleaf including a probable draft for the E flat Piano Quartet, K.493, 1786. £150,000 to £200,000.
    Sotheby’s, Dec. 12: Hooke, Robert. Micrographia: or some Physiological Descriptions of Minute Bodies made by Magnifying Glasses. London: James Allestry for the Royal Society, 1667. $12,000 to $15,000.
    Sotheby’s, Dec. 12: Chappuzeau, Samuel. The history of jewels, first edition in English. London: T.N. for Hobart Kemp, 1671. $12,000 to $18,000.
    Sotheby’s, Dec. 12: Sowerby, James. Exotic Mineralogy, containing his most realistic mineral depictions, London: Benjamin Meredith, 1811, Arding and Merrett, 1817. $5,000 to $7,000.
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  • Swann
    Maps & Atlases, Natural History & Color Plate Books
    December 9, 2025
    Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 156: Cornelis de Jode, Americae pars Borealis, double-page engraved map of North America, Antwerp, 1593.
    Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 206: John and Alexander Walker, Map of the United States, London and Liverpool, 1827.
    Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 223: Abraham Ortelius, Typus Orbis Terrarum, hand-colored double-page engraved world map, Antwerp, 1575.
    Swann
    Maps & Atlases, Natural History & Color Plate Books
    December 9, 2025
    Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 233: Aaron Arrowsmith, Chart of the World, oversize engraved map on 8 sheets, London, 1790 (circa 1800).
    Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 239: Fielding Lucas, A General Atlas, 81 engraved maps and diagrams, Baltimore, 1823.
    Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 240: Anthony Finley, A New American Atlas, 15 maps engraved by james hamilton young on 14 double-page sheets, Philadelphia, 1826.
    Swann
    Maps & Atlases, Natural History & Color Plate Books
    December 9, 2025
    Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 263: John Bachmann, Panorama of the Seat of War, portfolio of 4 double-page chromolithographed panoramic maps, New York, 1861.
    Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 265: Sebastian Münster, Cosmographei, Basel: Sebastian Henricpetri, 1558.
    Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 271: Abraham Ortelius, Epitome Theatri Orteliani, Antwerp: Johann Baptist Vrients, 1601.
    Swann
    Maps & Atlases, Natural History & Color Plate Books
    December 9, 2025
    Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 283: Joris van Spilbergen, Speculum Orientalis Occidentalisque Indiae, Leiden: Nicolaus van Geelkercken for Jodocus Hondius, 1619.
    Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 285: Levinus Hulsius, Achtzehender Theil der Newen Welt, 14 engraved folding maps, Frankfurt: Johann Frederick Weiss, 1623.
    Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 341: John James Audubon, Carolina Parrot, Plate 26, London, 1827.