Sworders: Paint. Print. Sculpt., A1240, Essex

Auction Details

Auction Report
Auction Date
December 02, 2025 - December 02, 2025
Page Size: 194 items in 8 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
306 John Banting (1902-1972)

'Siamese Triplets', 1932 (made)

1971/1932 GBP 150.00 - 200.00 GBP 234.00
354 Karolina Larusdottir (Icelandic, 1944-2019)

The End of the Day'; 'Music'; 'Sauma Konan' (The Seamstress)

GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 494.00
355 Karolina Larusdottir (Icelandic, 1944-2019)

'Folding Sheets'

GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 715.00
356 Tano Festa (Italian, 1938-1988)

'Finestra'

GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 Not Sold
357 Antonio Santacroce (Italian, b.1946)

'Mercurio',

GBP 300.00 - 400.00 Not Sold
358 After Henri Matisse

'Jazz'

1983 GBP 100.00 - 200.00 GBP 182.00
359 After Henri Matisse

'The Sword Swallower' (L'avaleur de sabres) from 'Jazz'

1983 GBP 100.00 - 200.00 GBP 208.00
360 After Henri Matisse

'Forms' (Formes) from 'Jazz'

1983 GBP 100.00 - 200.00 GBP 208.00
361 After Henri Matisse

The Funeral of Pierrot (L'enterrement de Pierrot) from 'Jazz'

1983 GBP 100.00 - 200.00 GBP 208.00
362 After Henri Matisse

'The Heart' (Le Coeur) from 'Jazz'

1983 GBP 100.00 - 200.00 GBP 156.00
363 After Henri Matisse

'The Codomas' (Les Codomas) from 'Jazz'

1983 GBP 100.00 - 200.00 GBP 312.00
364 After Henri Matisse

'The Horse, the Rider and the Clown' (Le Cheval, l'Ecuyere et le Clown), from 'Jazz'

1983 GBP 100.00 - 200.00 GBP 208.00
365 After Henri Matisse

'Icarus' (Icare) from 'Jazz'

1983 GBP 100.00 - 200.00 GBP 208.00
366 After Pablo Picasso

Untitled (two figures), from 'Grace et Mouvement'

GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 156.00
367 After Pablo Picasso

'Picasso: 60 Years of Graphic Works'

c.1966 GBP 100.00 - 150.00 GBP 78.00
368 Salvador Dali (Spanish, 1904-1989)

'Portrait of La Fontaine' (from 'La Fontaine's Bestiary Dalinized') (M&L 653)

1974 GBP 100.00 - 150.00 GBP 104.00
369 Salvador Dali (Spanish, 1904-1989)

'La Sirene'

GBP 300.00 - 500.00 GBP 390.00
370 After Marc Chagall

Femme a l'Oiseau', 1954

1954 GBP 100.00 - 150.00 Not Sold
371 Christo Javacheff aka 'Christo' (1935-2020) & Jeanne-Claude Denat de Guillebon (1935--2009)

'Wrapped Reichstag, Project for Berlin'

1994 GBP 700.00 - 900.00 Not Sold
372 Bernard Cathelin (French, 1919-2004)

Blue and white anemones

GBP 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
373 Bernard Cathelin (French, 1919-2004)

Bouquet of lilacs on a red tablecloth

GBP 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
374 Bernard Cathelin (French, 1919-2004)

Red roses in a white vase

GBP 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
375 Jean Picart Le Doux (French, 1902-1982)

'Concerto'

printed signature l.r., stamped l.l. GBP 500.00 - 800.00 Not Sold
376 Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (French, 1864-1901)

'Elles'

1969 GBP 100.00 - 150.00 Not Sold
377 After Edouard Leon Theodore Mesens

'The Well of Truth'

GBP 200.00 - 400.00 Not Sold
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    Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: An Exceptionally Fine Copy of Austenís Emma: A Novel in Three Volumes. $40,000 - $60,000.
    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.
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    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.
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    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.
    Sotheby’s, Dec. 17: Nausea. De principiis dialectices Gorgias, and other works, Venice, 1523, morocco gilt for Cardinal Campeggio. €3,000 to €4,000.
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    Book Week
    December 9-17, 2025
    Sotheby’s, Dec. 16: Salinger, J.D. The Graham Family archive, including autographed letters, an inscribed Catcher, a rare studio photograph of the author, and more. $120,000 to $180,000.
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    Sotheby’s, Dec. 16: Massachusetts General Court. A powerful precursor to the Declaration of Independence: "every Act of Government … without the Consent of the People, is … Tyranny." $40,000 to $60,000.
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    December 15, 2025
    Heritage, Dec. 15: John Donne. Poems, By J. D. With Elegies on the Author's Death. London: M[iles]. F[lesher]. for John Marriot, 1633.
    Heritage, Dec. 15: Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
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