Christies: Contemporary Editions: New York, 24246, New York

Auction Details

Auction Report
Auction Date
February 26, 2026 - February 26, 2026
Page Size: 173 items in 7 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
131 CHUCK CLOSE (1940-2021)

Self Portrait II

New York 1997 USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 USD 2,413.00
132 CHUCK CLOSE (1940-2021)

Self Portrait

New York 2000 USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 USD 15,240.00
134 ROBERT RYMAN (1930-2019)

Untitled, from On the Bowery

Bonladen, Germany 1969 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 7,620.00
135 JEAN DUBUFFET (1901-1985)

Site avec five personnages

Humlebaek, Denmark 1981 USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 7,620.00
136 CY TWOMBLY (1928-2011)

Octavio Paz

Cologne, Germany 1993 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 19,050.00
137 RICHARD HAMILTON (1922-2011)

Chiara & chair

London 2004 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 2,159.00
138 JIM DINE (B. 1935)

The Mask

London 2015 USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 3,302.00
139 JULIAN OPIE (B. 1958)

New York Couples.

London 2019 USD 60,000.00 - 80,000.00 Not Sold
140 JULIAN OPIE (B. 1958)

Musician, from Walking in London 2

London 2014 USD 18,000.00 - 25,000.00 USD 16,510.00
141 GERHARD RICHTER (B. 1932)

Onkel Rudi (Uncle Rudi)

Prato, Italy 2000 USD 12,000.00 - 18,000.00 USD 53,340.00
142 THOMAS SCHUTTE (B. 1954)

Quengelware

New York 2002 USD 30,000.00 - 50,000.00 USD 19,050.00
143 JOHN BALDESSARI (1931-2020)

Man Running: Men Carrying Coffin (Fly for my life), from A Suite of Five Lithographs for Tristram Shandy

San Francisco 1988 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 1,651.00
144 JOHN BALDESSARI (1931-2020)

Helmsman (With Various Fires)

New York 1989-1990 USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 2,159.00
145 RICHARD PRINCE (B. 1949)

New Figures

New York 2015 USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 Not Sold
146 JEAN-MICHEL BASQUIAT (1960-1988)

Untitled (Ramus of Mandible) from Anatomy

New York 1982 USD 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 USD 50,800.00
147 JEAN-MICHEL BASQUIAT (1960-1988)

Untitled (Right Humerus) From Anatomy

New York 1982 USD 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 USD 35,560.00
148 KEITH HARING (1958-1990)

Pop Shop Quad IV

New York 1989 USD 25,000.00 - 35,000.00 USD 30,480.00
149 KEITH HARING (1958-1990)

Pop Shop V

New York 1989 USD 40,000.00 - 60,000.00 USD 53,340.00
150 KEITH HARING (1958-1990)

Untitled, from Three Lithographs

Munich and New York 1985 USD 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 USD 35,560.00
151 KEITH HARING (1958-1990)

Icons: one print

New York 1990 USD 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 USD 27,940.00
153 SOL LEWITT (1928-2007)

Circles Divided into Eight Equal Parts with Colors Superimposed in Each Part

Munich, Germany 1989 USD 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 USD 4,826.00
154 SOL LEWITT (1928-2007)

Stars

New York 2002 USD 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 USD 11,430.00
155 MEL BOCHNER (1940-2025)

Obvious

New York 2012 USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 Not Sold
156 CHRISTOPHER WOOL. 1955)

Black Book

New York and Cologne, Germany 1989 USD 12,000.00 - 18,000.00 USD 20,320.00
157 KARA WALKER (B. 1969)

The Means to an End...A Shadow Drama in Five Acts

Chicago 1995 USD 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 USD 19,050.00
  • ALDE, Apr. 8: GUEVARA (ANTONIO DE). Histoire de Marc-Aurèle, Empereur Romain, vray miroir et horloge des Princes. Paris, Pierre et Galliot du Pré, frères, 1565. €3,000 to €4,000.
    ALDE, Apr. 8: HEURES DE LA VIERGE. Horæ in laudem beatissimæ virginis Mariæ ad usum Romanum. Paris, Charles L'Angelier, 1556. €4,000 to €5,000.
    ALDE, Apr. 8: MONTAIGNE (MICHEL DE). Les Essais. Édition nouvelle, trouvée après le deceds de l'autheur… Paris, Abel L'Angelier, 1595. €6,000 to €8,000.
    ALDE, Apr. 8: [ROJAS (FERNANDO DE)]. Celestina, tragicomedia di Calisto et Melibea, tradotta de lingua castigliana in italiano idioma… Venise, 1531. €2,000 to €3,000.
    ALDE, Apr. 8: CAMÕES (LUÍS DE). Os Lusiadas. Lisbonne, Pedro Crasbeeck, 1613. €2,000 to €3,000.
    ALDE, Apr. 8: CERVANTES (MIGUEL DE). El Ingenioso hidalgo Don Quixote de la Mancha. Bruxelles, Roger Velpius & Huberto Antonio, 1611. €6,000 to €8,000.
    ALDE, Apr. 8: LA FONTAINE (JEAN DE). Fables choisies, mises en vers. Paris, Denys Thierry et Claude Barbin, 1678-1694. €6,000 to €8,000.
    ALDE, Apr. 8: CERVANTES (MIGUEL DE). El Ingenioso hidalgo Don Quixote de la Mancha. Madrid, Joaquin Ibarra, 1780. €3,000 to €4,000.
    ALDE, Apr. 8: DIDEROT (DENIS) ET JEAN LE ROND D'ALEMBERT. Encyclopédie, ou dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers. Paris, 1751-1765. €15,000 to €20,000.
    ALDE, Apr. 8: [LIVRE TISSÉ]. LAMARTINE (Alphonse de). Les Laboureurs. Poème tiré de Jocelyn… Lyon, J. A. Henry, 1883. €8,000 to €10,000.
    ALDE, Apr. 8: [LIVRE TISSÉ]. Livre de prières tissé d'après les enluminures des manuscrits du XIVe au XVIe siècle. Lyon, [A. Roux], 1886. €5,000 to €6,000.
  • Sotheby’s
    Books, Manuscripts & Objects from Three Important Collections
    Open for Bidding 2-17 April
    Sotheby’s, Apr. 2-17: [Guillaume de Lorris and Jean de Meun]. Le Roman de la Rose, [Geneva or Lyons, c.1481], first printed edition of the most important medieval French vernacular poem. £200,000 to £300,000.
    Sotheby’s, Apr. 2-17: Castiglione. Il libro del cortegiano. [Venice], April 1528, first edition, in a magnificent binding by Jean Picard for Jean Grolier. £100,000 to £150,000.
    Sotheby’s, Apr. 2-17: Jacobus de Cessolis. Schachzabelbuch, Strasbourg, 1483, von der Lasa copy. £50,000 to £70,000.
    Sotheby’s, Apr. 2-17: World Championship, 1972. A collection of 84 press photographs of the famed match between Spassky and Fischer. £2,000 to £3,000.
    Sotheby’s, Apr. 2-17: Ben Franklin. Autograph letter signed, to Lord Shelburne, British Prime Minister, during peace negotiations, November 1782. £15,000 to £20,000.