Sothebys: Contemporary Discoveries, N11787, New York

Auction Details

Auction Report
Auction Date
October 01, 2025 - October 01, 2025
Page Size: 57 items in 3 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
639 Hiroshi Sugimoto

Black Sea, Ozuluce

 1991 USD 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 USD 20,320.00
646 Stanley Whitney

Untitled

 2019 USD 40,000.00 - 60,000.00 USD 69,850.00
677 Richard Estes

D-Train

 1988 USD 18,000.00 - 25,000.00 USD 57,150.00
678 Peter Fischli and David Weiss

Bilder, Ansichten Nos. 1-6

 1990 USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 Not Sold
714 Tseng Kwong Chi

Puck Ball (The Gang's All Here)

 1983 USD 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 USD 8,890.00
716 Todd Gray

Olympia

 2017 USD 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 Not Sold
717 Zanele Muholi

MaID VIII, SunSquare, Cape Town

 2017 USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 USD 21,590.00
752 Robert Polidori

Palm Court Inn, Highway 111

 1998 USD 15,000.00 - 25,000.00 USD 24,130.00
756 Catherine Opie

Dyke

 1993 USD 15,000.00 - 25,000.00 USD 27,940.00
757 Wolfgang Tillmans

Like Praying I & II

 1994 USD 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 USD 10,160.00
758 Robert Mapplethorpe

Untitled

 circa 1973 USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 6,350.00
760 Richard Prince

Untitled (Man's Hand with Cigarette)

 1980 USD 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 USD 21,590.00
762 Bernd and Hilla Becher

Untitled (Duisburg)

 circa 1980 USD 15,000.00 - 25,000.00 USD 10,160.00
763 Christopher Williams

Jorgen Gammelgaard Folding stool of steel with yellow nylon seat, 1970 L: 57 cm, H: 40 cm, W: 46 cm Producer: Strutture d'Interni of Bologna, Italy, under license from Design Forum A/S, Denmark Purchased by Det danske Kunstindustrimuseum 1970 Mus. no. 63/

 1998 USD 6,000.00 - 9,000.00 USD 6,096.00
764 Paul Sietsema

Untitled Film Stills

 2000 USD 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 USD 1,651.00
772 Walid Raad

Preface to the Third Edition

 2013 USD 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 USD 15,240.00
776 Vija Celmins

Constellation

 1995 USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 5,080.00
777 Ellsworth Kelly

Magnolia, from Suite of Plant Lithographs (Axsom 56)

 1966 USD 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 USD 12,700.00
785 Louise Lawler

16

 1985 USD 15,000.00 - 25,000.00 USD 38,100.00
786 Louise Lawler

Grieving Mothers - Still

 2005 USD 7,000.00 - 10,000.00 USD 8,255.00
787 Louise Lawler

Is it

 2008-09 USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 2,286.00
789 Pierre Huyghe

Timekeeper / Wiener / Secession / 28.04.1999 Scale 1 (1999)

 1999 USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 USD 12,700.00
795 Jasper Johns

Untitled (Red); Untitled (Yellow); and Untitled (Blue) (ULAE 224-226)

 1982 USD 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 USD 10,160.00
796 Robert Motherwell

Three Prints

 1971 USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 2,540.00
797 Terry Winters

Album (Sojka 21-29)

 1988 USD 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 Not Sold
  • <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> Autograph Letter Signed ("Martinus Luther") to His Friend the Theologian Gerhard Wiskamp ("Gerardo Xantho Lampadario"). $100,000 - $150,000. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> An Exceptionally Fine Copy of Austenís Emma: A Novel in Three Volumes. $40,000 - $60,000. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> Presentation Copy of Ernest Hemmingwayís A Farewell to Arms for Edward Titus of the Black Mankin Press. $30,000 - $50,000. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> Autograph Manuscript Signed Integrally for "The Songs of Pooh," by Alan Alexander. $30,000 - $50,000. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> Autograph Manuscript of "Three Fragments from Gˆtterd‰mmerung" by Richard Wagner. $30,000 - $50,000. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> Original Preliminary Artwork, for the First Edition of Snow Crash. $20,000 - $30,000. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> Autograph Letter Signed ("T.R. Malthus") to Economist Nassau Senior on Wealth, Labor and Adam Smith. $20,000 - $30,000. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides Finely Bound by Michael Wilcox. $20,000 - $30,000. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> 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. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> Original Artwork for the First Edition of Neal Stephenson's Groundbreaking Novel Snow Crash. $100,000 - $150,000. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> A Complete Set Signed Deluxe Editions of King's The Dark Tower Series by Stephen King. $8,000 - $12,000. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> Autograph Letter Signed ("John Adams") to James Le Ray de Chaumont During the Crucial Years of the Revolutionary War. $8,000 - $12,000.
    Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Letter Signed ("Martinus Luther") to His Friend the Theologian Gerhard Wiskamp ("Gerardo Xantho Lampadario"). $100,000 - $150,000.
    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.
    Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides Finely Bound by Michael Wilcox. $20,000 - $30,000.
    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.
    Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Original Artwork for the First Edition of Neal Stephenson's Groundbreaking Novel Snow Crash. $100,000 - $150,000.
    Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: A Complete Set Signed Deluxe Editions of King's The Dark Tower Series by Stephen King. $8,000 - $12,000.
    Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Letter Signed ("John Adams") to James Le Ray de Chaumont During the Crucial Years of the Revolutionary War. $8,000 - $12,000.
  • <center><b>Sotheby’s<br>Book Week<br>December 9-17, 2025</b></center> <b>Sotheby’s, Dec. 17:</b> Francesco Colonna. <i>Hypnerotomachie,</i> Paris, 1546, Parisian calf by Wotton Binder C for Marcus Fugger. €200,000 to €300,000. <b>Sotheby’s, Dec. 17:</b> Nausea. <i>De principiis dialectices Gorgias,</i> and other works, Venice, 1523, morocco gilt for Cardinal Campeggio. €3,000 to €4,000. <b>Sotheby’s, Dec. 17:</b> Billon. <i>Le fort inexpugnable de l'honneur,</i> Paris, 1555, Parisian calf gilt for Peter Ernst, Graf von Mansfeld. €120,000 to €180,000. <center><b>Sotheby’s<br>Book Week<br>December 9-17, 2025</b></center> <b>Sotheby’s, Dec. 16:</b> 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. <b>Sotheby’s, Dec. 16:</b> [Austen, Jane]. A handsome first edition of <i>Sense and Sensibility,</i> the author's first novel. $60,000 to $80,000. <b>Sotheby’s, Dec. 16:</b> 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.
    Sotheby’s
    Book Week
    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.
    Sotheby’s, Dec. 17: Billon. Le fort inexpugnable de l'honneur, Paris, 1555, Parisian calf gilt for Peter Ernst, Graf von Mansfeld. €120,000 to €180,000.
    Sotheby’s
    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.
    Sotheby’s, Dec. 16: [Austen, Jane]. A handsome first edition of Sense and Sensibility, the author's first novel. $60,000 to $80,000.
    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.
  • <b><center>Heritage Auctions<br>Rare Books Signature Auction<br>December 15, 2025</center></b> <b>Heritage, Dec. 15:</b> John Donne. <i>Poems, By J. D. With Elegies on the Author's Death.</i> London: M[iles]. F[lesher]. for John Marriot, 1633. <b>Heritage, Dec. 15:</b> Edgar Rice Burroughs. <i>Tarzan of the Apes.</i> <b>Heritage, Dec. 15:</b> F. Scott Fitzgerald. <i>Tender is the Night. A Romance.</i> <b>Heritage, Dec. 15:</b> Bram Stoker. <i>Dracula.</i> Westminster: Archibald Constable & Co., 1897. <b>Heritage, Dec. 15:</b> Jerry Thomas. <i>How to Mix Drinks, or the Bon-Vivant's Companion, Containing Clear and Reliable Directions for Mixing All the Beverages Used in the United States…</i>
    Heritage Auctions
    Rare Books Signature Auction
    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.
    Heritage, Dec. 15: F. Scott Fitzgerald. Tender is the Night. A Romance.
    Heritage, Dec. 15: Bram Stoker. Dracula. Westminster: Archibald Constable & Co., 1897.
    Heritage, Dec. 15: Jerry Thomas. How to Mix Drinks, or the Bon-Vivant's Companion, Containing Clear and Reliable Directions for Mixing All the Beverages Used in the United States…
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