Sothebys: Artist Books, pf2543, Paris
Auction Details
- Auction Date
- October 23, 2025 - October 23, 2025
| Lot Number | Author Name | Book Title | Place Printed | Year Published | Estimate | Actual Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bellmer, Hans | Die Puppe. |
Karlsruhe | 1934 | EUR 60,000.00 - 80,000.00 | EUR 63,500.00 |
| 2 | Bellmer, Hans -- Georges Bataille | Histoire de l'oeil. |
Seville [Paris | 1940, [1946]. | EUR 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 | Not Sold |
| 3 | Bellmer, Hans | Mode d'emploi. |
[Paris] | 1967 | EUR 6,000.00 - 9,000.00 | Not Sold |
| 4 | Boetti, Alighiero | Classifying the Thousand Longest Rivers in the World. |
1977 | EUR 3,500.00 - 5,000.00 | EUR 3,810.00 | |
| 5 | Boetti, Alighiero | 1986 |
1987 | EUR 5,000.00 - 6,000.00 | EUR 8,255.00 | |
| 6 | Braque, Georges -- Rene Char | Cinq poesies en hommage a Braque. |
Geneve | 1958 | EUR 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 | Not Sold |
| 7 | Dali, Salvador - Giacomo Casanova | Dali illustre Casanova. |
Paris | 1967 | EUR 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 | EUR 12,700.00 |
| 8 | Delaunay, Robert --- Anatole Jakovski [sous le pseudonyme d'Anatole Delagrave] | Clefs des paves. |
Paris | 1939 | EUR 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 | EUR 4,445.00 |
| 9 | Dubuffet, Jean | La Metromanie, ou les dessous de la capitale. |
Paris | 1949 | EUR 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 | EUR 3,302.00 |
| 10 | Giacometti, Alberto | Le Moteur blanc. |
Paris | 1956 | EUR 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 | EUR 6,096.00 |
| 11 | Jorn, Asger - Guy Debord | Fin de Copenhague. |
Copenhague | mai 1957. | EUR 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 | EUR 6,985.00 |
| 12 | Kawada, Kikuji | Chizu (The Map). |
Tokyo | 1965 | EUR 16,000.00 - 20,000.00 | EUR 27,940.00 |
| 13 | Lam, Wifredo - Rene Char | De la Sainte Famille au Droit a la paresse. |
Paris | 1976 | EUR 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 | EUR 6,096.00 |
| 14 | Man Ray | Mr and Mrs Woodman. |
La Haye | 1970 | EUR 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 | EUR 12,065.00 |
| 15 | Matisse, Henri -- Stephane Mallarme | Poesies. |
Lausanne | 1932 | EUR 35,000.00 - 45,000.00 | EUR 48,260.00 |
| 16 | Miro, Joan --- Max Ernst --- Kurt Seligmann --- Yves Tanguy --- Wifredo Lam --- Stanlay Hayter --- Roberto Matta | Brunidor Portfolio ndeg 1. |
New York | 1947 | EUR 50,000.00 - 60,000.00 | EUR 57,150.00 |
| 17 | Miro, Joan -- Rene Char | Nous avons. |
Paris | 1959 | EUR 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 | EUR 24,130.00 |
| 18 | Miro, Joan | Cantic del sol. |
Barcelone | 1975 | EUR 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 | EUR 9,144.00 |
| 19 | Mucha, Alfons | Documents decoratifs. |
Paris | 1902 | EUR 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 | EUR 11,430.00 |
| 20 | Moriyama, Daido --- Takuma Nakahira --- Yutaka Takanashi --- Koji Taki | Provoke. Rare collection complete (ndeg 1-5). |
Tokyo | 1968-1969. | EUR 12,000.00 - 16,000.00 | Not Sold |
| 21 | Moriyama, Daido | Kiroku [Record], ndeg 1-5. |
Tokyo | 1972-1973. | EUR 13,000.00 - 15,000.00 | Not Sold |
| 22 | Moriyama, Daido | Another Country in New York. |
[L'Auteur] | 1974 | EUR 16,000.00 - 20,000.00 | Not Sold |
| 23 | Picasso, Pablo - Andre Salmon | Le Manuscrit trouve dans un chapeau. |
Paris | 1919 | EUR 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 | EUR 33,020.00 |
| 24 | Picasso, Pablo | Contree. |
Paris | 1944 | EUR 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 | EUR 25,400.00 |
| 25 | Picasso, Pablo | Mostra di Pablo Picasso. Catalogo della mostra. |
Rome | 1953 | EUR 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | EUR 7,620.00 |
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