Stair Auctioneers and Appraisers: Selections from The Museum of Modern Art: C. 1900-1990, 111925, Hudson

Auction Details

Auction Report
Auction Date
November 19, 2025 - November 19, 2025
Page Size: 153 items in 7 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
95 Walker Evans

Billboard Painters, Florida

1934, printed c. 1970 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 2,312.00
96 Walker Evans

Untitled (Interior, Cluttered Desk)

1934, printed c. 1970 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 476.00
97 Walker Evans

Houses, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania

1935, printed c. 1970 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 612.00
98 Walker Evans

Bethlehem Houses and Steel Mill, Pennsylvania

1935, printed c. 1970 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 1,904.00
99 Walker Evans

Breakfast Room at Belle Grove Plantatation, White Chapel, Louisiana

1935, printed c. 1970 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 3,944.00
100 Walker Evans

Furniture Store Sign near Birmingham, Alabama

1935, printed c. 1970 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 1,904.00
101 Walker Evans

Block Front in Montgomery, Alabama (Teague Hardware Co.)

1935-36, printed c. 1970 USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 USD 2,040.00
102 Walker Evans

Roaring West and Minstrel Posters, Demopolis, Alabama

1936, printed c. 1970 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 1,496.00
103 Walker Evans

Mining Town, West Virginia

1936, printed c. 1970 USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 USD 1,088.00
104 Walker Evans

Tuscaloosa Wrecking Company, Alabama

1936, printed c. 1970 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 1,224.00
105 Walker Evans

James Agee

1937, printed c. 1970 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 272.00
106 Walker Evans

James Agee

1937, printed c. 1970 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 1,768.00
107 Walker Evans

Street Scene, New York

1938, printed c. 1970 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 1,360.00
108 Walker Evans

The Bag Pipe Maker

1939, printed c. 1970 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 1,224.00
109 Gertrude Fehr

Low Tide

1934-59 USD 600.00 - 800.00 USD 544.00
110 Gertrude Fehr

Jean Arp; and Oskar Kokoschka

USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 Not Sold
111 Dorothea Lange

Dorothea Lange's Mother

circa 1915, printed in 1965 USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 Not Sold
112 Dorothea Lange

Adele Raas, San Francisco

circa 1920, printed in 1965 USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 USD 1,360.00
113 Dorothea Lange

Mrs. S. Lilienthal, San Francisco

1934, printed in 1965 USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 USD 476.00
114 Dorothea Lange

Untitled (Thumbtacked Sign)

circa 1936, printed in 1965 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 680.00
115 Dorothea Lange

First Born, Berkeley

1952, printed 1965 USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 Not Sold
116 Dorothea Lange

Gunlock, Utah

1953, printed in 1965 USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 2,448.00
117 Dorothea Lange

Toquerville, Utah; and Toquerville, Utah

1953, printed in 1965 USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 1,360.00
118 Dorothea Lange

Gunlock, Utah

1953, printed in 1965 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 1,224.00
119 Dorothea Lange

Charlie Bringhurst, Toquerville, Utah

1953, printed in 1965 USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 USD 476.00
  • 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.