Sothebys: Elixir of Life: Photographs from The Olbricht Collection, pf2540, Paris

Auction Details

Auction Report
Auction Date
November 19, 2025 - November 19, 2025
Page Size: 63 items in 3 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
27 Josef Maria Eder & Eduard Valenta

Versuche uber Photographie mittelst der Rontgen'schen Strahlen

EUR 25,000.00 - 35,000.00 Not Sold
28 Chuck Close

Untitled Torso Diptych

2012 EUR 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 EUR 10,160.00
29 Herbert Hoffmann

Karl Oergel

1973, printed later. EUR 400.00 - 600.00 EUR 127.00
30 Diane Arbus

Tattooed Man at a Carnival, MD.

1967, printed posthumously by Neil Selkirk. EUR 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 Not Sold
31 Peter Hujar

Palermo Catacombs #8, Skull in Window

1963 EUR 6,000.00 - 9,000.00 EUR 13,970.00
32 Manuel Alvarez Bravo

Retrato postumo

1939 EUR 18,000.00 - 20,000.00 Not Sold
33 Aenne Biermann

Hand with Woodcarver's Knife

1930 EUR 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 Not Sold
34 Werner Rohde

Puppe, Kopf [Puppet, Head]

1930 EUR 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 EUR 6,350.00
35 August Sander

Antlitz der Zeit

1910-29, printed posthumously in 1989 by Gerd Sander EUR 200,000.00 - 300,000.00 Not Sold
36 Lisette Model

Twelve Photographs

1933-49, printed in 1976 EUR 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 EUR 10,160.00
37 Henri Cartier-Bresson

Valencia

1933 EUR 70,000.00 - 100,000.00 Not Sold
38 United Press International Photographer

Untitled (South Vietnam, children run along Highway 1)

1972 EUR 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 EUR 3,810.00
39 Robert Capa

Death of a Loyalist Militiaman near Espejo, Cordoba Front, Spain (Falling Soldier)

1936, probably printed in the 1950s. EUR 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 EUR 27,940.00
40 Carel Blazer

Calvi, Corsica

1947, printed before 1963 EUR 1,000.00 - 2,000.00 EUR 1,270.00
41 Robert Doisneau

Le Baiser de l'Hotel de Ville, Paris 4 e

1950, printed circa 1960 EUR 15,000.00 - 25,000.00 Not Sold
42 Lee Friedlander

Florida

1963, printed later. EUR 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 Not Sold
43 Lee Friedlander

Galax, Va

1962, printed later. EUR 6,000.00 - 9,000.00 Not Sold
44 Nicholas Nixon

The Brown Sisters

1975-2022. EUR 200,000.00 - 300,000.00 Not Sold
45 Rineke Dijkstra

The Buzz Club, Liverpool, England, March 4, 1995

1995 EUR 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 Not Sold
46 Rineke Dijkstra

The Buzz Club, Liverpool, England, March 3, 1995

1995 EUR 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 Not Sold
47 Rineke Dijkstra

The Buzz Club, Liverpool, England, March 11, 1995

1995 EUR 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 EUR 12,700.00
48 Pieter Hugo

Abdullahi Mohammed with Mainasara, Lagos, Nigeria

2007 EUR 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 EUR 25,400.00
49 Taryn Simon

Frederick Daye, Alibi location, American Legion Post 310 San Diego, California, where 13 witnesses placed Daye at the time of the crime, Served 10 years of a Life sentence for Kidnapping, Rape and Vehicle Theft

2002 EUR 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 EUR 10,160.00
50 Taryn Simon

Vincent Moto, Scene of arrest, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, With son Andre, who was with Moto at time of arrest, Served 8 years of a 12 to 24 year sentence for Rape, Criminal Conspiracy and Robbery

2002 EUR 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 EUR 10,160.00
51 Wolfgang Tillmans

Kneeling Nude

1997 EUR 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 EUR 17,780.00
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    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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    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.