Rago Arts and Auctions: Prints and Multiples, 31726, Chicago

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Auction Report
Auction Date
March 17, 2026 - March 17, 2026
Page Size: 158 items in 7 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
125 Reynold Henry Weidenaar 1915--1985

Eyes of the City; Still Life of Wilted Celery; Leviathan of the Lakes (three works)

1953, 1954 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 576.00
126 Werner Drewes 1899--1985

Figure Study II; Back View; Male Model; Mann und Frau and Pine Forest (four works)

1919, 1926, 1955 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 Not Sold
127 Peggy Bacon 1895--1987

Turkish Delight; Pity the Blind (first and second states) (three works)

1933, 1941 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 1,408.00
128 Stanley William Hayter 1901--1988

Espana (from the Fraternity portfolio)

1939 USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 512.00
129 June Wayne 1918--2011

The Relique (from the John Donne: Songs and Sonnets portfolio)

1956 USD 200.00 - 300.00 USD 67.00
130 Will Barnet 1911--2012

Early Morning

1939 USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 Not Sold
131 Howard Norton Cook 1901--1980

Walpi (Arizona)

1927 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 998.00
132 Louis Lozowick 1892--1973

Above the City

1932 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 768.00
133 Benton Spruance 1904--1967

End Sweep

1934 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 1,408.00
134 Sven Birger Sandzen 1871--1954

Summertime

c.1940 USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 896.00
135 Sven Birger Sandzen 1871--1954

Brook with Poplars; Colorado Stream (two works)

1932, 1952 USD 700.00 - 900.00 USD 865.00
136 John Sandlin 1929--1995

Private Richard K. Oakley 9th Georgia Battalion Killed at Shiloh

1973 USD 300.00 - 500.00 Not Sold
137 Patrick Procktor 1936--2003

The Very Deep Did Rot (from The Rime of the Ancient Mariner portfolio)

1976 USD 200.00 - 300.00 USD 320.00
138 Sven Birger Sandzen 1871--1954

Pond with Willows; Pond with Cottonwood Trees (two works)

1937 USD 700.00 - 900.00 USD 1,280.00
139 Sven Birger Sandzen 1871--1954

Kansas Creek; Glimpse of Blue River (two works)

1928/1936 USD 700.00 - 900.00 USD 865.00
140 Milton Avery 1885--1965

Baby Avery

1933 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 532.00
141 Earl Gross 1899--1993

Spanish Fisherman

1962 USD 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
142 Howard Norton Cook 1901--1980

Studio Bed (Barbara Latham Sleeping)

1930 USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 USD 1,280.00
143 Arthur Bowen Davies 1862--1928

Potentia; Diane (two works)

1918, 1919-20 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 640.00
144 Walt Francis Kuhn 1877--1949

Hulda

1923 USD 500.00 - 700.00 USD 128.00
145 Kyra Markham 1891--1967

Mature Vision

1935 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 4,096.00
146 Reginald Marsh 1898--1954

Jersey City Landscape

1939 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 998.00
147 Louis Schanker 1903--1981

Cafe #1; Two Figures (two works)

1938, 1939 USD 500.00 - 700.00 USD 128.00
148 Gerald Geerlings 1897--1998

Grand Canal, America (Electrical Building at Night (Chicago World's Fair))

1933 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 1,216.00
149 Jackson Lee Nesbitt 1913--2008

The Spirit of Butler

1940 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 2,432.00
  • 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.