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Potomack Company: Fine Art Prints, Vintage Posters

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Auction Name Fine Art Prints, Vintage Posters Total Sales (USD) 32,693.75
Auction Date June 30, 2020 - June 30, 2020 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 8,015.00
Sale Number #63020 High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 26,100.00
Total Lots 44
Sold Lots 30 Low Estimate of All Lots (USD) 14,430.00
% of Lots Sold 68.18% High Estimate of All Lots (USD) 43,800.00
Unsold Lots 14 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 74.64%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
1006 SALVADOR DALI (SPANISH, 1904-1989)

THREE PRINTS FROM HAWAII: CALIFORNIA SUITE - BIRD OF PARADISE, MONTRE FLEUR, and LEI

USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 10,000.00
1045 PATRICK HERON (BRITISH, 1920-1999)

JANUARY 1973, PLATE 13

1973 USD 750.00 - 3,000.00 USD 5,000.00
1046 PATRICK HERON (BRITISH, 1920-1999)

JANUARY 1973, PLATE 9

1973 USD 750.00 - 3,000.00 USD 4,375.00
1003 PABLO PICASSO (SPANISH, 1881-1973)

LA DANSE DES FAUNES,1957

USD 750.00 - 3,000.00 USD 1,625.00
1060 CLIFTON KARHU (AMERICAN, 1927-2007)

GROUP OF WOODBLOCK PRINTS

USD 150.00 - 500.00 USD 1,500.00
1005 JOAN MIRO (SPANISH, 1893-1983)

ALBUM 21: ONE PLATE, 1978

1978 USD 750.00 - 3,000.00 USD 1,125.00
1044 HENRY MOORE (BRITISH, 1898-1986)

TWO RECLINING FIGURES, 1972

1972 USD 350.00 - 900.00 USD 875.00
1088

POSTERS: WORLD WAR I SIDE BY SIDE BRITANNIA, 1918

1918 USD 300.00 - 900.00 USD 812.50
1018 FRANCISCO TOLEDO (MEXICAN, 1940-2019)

CANGREJO MANO LARGA, 1985

1985 USD 425.00 - 900.00 USD 750.00
1059 CLIFTON KARHU (AMERICAN, 1927-2007)

GOLDEN PAVILLION

USD 200.00 - 600.00 USD 750.00
1081 UNKNOWN (FRENCH, EARLY 20TH CENTURY)

ETIENNE PICON: ABSINTHE

USD 150.00 - 500.00 USD 750.00
1017 PATRICIA TOBACCO FORRESTER (AMERICAN, 1940-2011)

MIAMI

USD 200.00 - 600.00 USD 562.50
1042 ULFERT WILKE (AMERICAN/GERMAN, 1907-1987)

GROUP OF 11 LITHOGRAPHS

USD 100.00 - 400.00 USD 406.25
1052 FRANCISCO SOBRINO (SPANISH, 1932-)

UNTITLED, 1976

1976 USD 150.00 - 500.00 USD 350.00
1089

SEND MORE MEN - WON'T YOU ANSWER THE CALL

USD 100.00 - 400.00 USD 343.75
1006A SALVADOR DALI (SPANISH, 1904-1989)

THE KISS from SONG OF SONGS

USD 250.00 - 500.00 USD 312.50
1044A JULIAN TREVELYAN (BRITISH, 1910-1988)

DUOMO

USD 150.00 - 500.00 USD 312.50
1055 PETER MAX (GERMAN/AMERICAN, 1937-)

BILL CLINTON, AN AMERICAN REUNION I, POSTER

USD 70.00 - 300.00 USD 312.50
1076 MORT WALKER (AMERICAN, 1923-2018)

BEETLE BAILEY COMIC STRIP

USD 100.00 - 300.00 USD 281.25
1080 EUGENE OGE (FRENCH, 1861-1936)

FINE ARMAGNAC - EST UN VRAI TRESOR

USD 100.00 - 400.00 USD 281.25
1083 CARLOS RUANO LLOPIS (SPANISH, 1879-1950)

EL RODEO

USD 200.00 - 800.00 USD 281.25
1084 ANTHONY PALLISER (1949-)

WILLI'S WINE BAR - PARIS

USD 100.00 - 400.00 USD 281.25
1051 EUSEBIO SEMPERE (SPANISH, 1924-1985)

UNTITLED, 1976

1976 USD 100.00 - 300.00 USD 225.00
1061 CLIFTON KARHU (AMERICAN, 1927-2007)

MAN HOLDING A FISH AND A RABBIT

USD 50.00 - 200.00 USD 218.75
1053 VICTOR VASARELY (FRENCH-HUNGARIAN, 1906-1997)

UNTITLED, 1969

1969 USD 150.00 - 500.00 USD 187.50
  • Sotheby’s
    Modern First Editions
    Available for Immediate Purchase
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: Winston Churchill. The Second World War. Set of First-Edition Volumes. 6,000 USD
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: A.A. Milne, Ernest H. Shepard. A Collection of The Pooh Books. Set of First-Editions. 18,600 USD
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: Salvador Dalí, Lewis Carroll. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. Finely Bound and Signed Limited Edition. 15,000 USD
    Sotheby’s
    Modern First Editions
    Available for Immediate Purchase
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: Ian Fleming. Live and Let Die. First Edition. 9,500 USD
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: J.K. Rowling. Harry Potter Series. Finely Bound First Printing Set of Complete Series. 5,650 USD
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell to Arms. First Edition, First Printing. 4,200 USD
  • Bonhams, Mar. 22 – Apr. 2: A RUTH BADER GINSBURG BEADED JUDICIAL COLLAR. $80,000 - $120,000
    Bonhams, Mar. 22 – Apr. 2: ONLY KNOWN COPY OF THE ONLY BOOK BY THE REMARKABLE EVE ADAMS. $8,000 - $12,000
    Bonhams, Mar. 22 – Apr. 2: A COMPLETE RUN OF VISIONAIRE MAGAZINE THROUGH 2010. $6,000 - $9,000
    Bonhams, Mar. 22 – Apr. 2: LAW REVIEW OFFPRINT SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY RUTH BADER GINSBURG. $3,000 - $5,000
    Bonhams, Mar. 22 – Apr. 2: META REBNER'S WORKING SCRIPT OF THE LOVED ONE. $1,500 - $2,000
    Bonhams, Mar. 22 – Apr. 2: A KATHY GROVE PORTRAIT OF CYNDI LAUPER FOR THE FEBRUARY 1989 DETAILS COVER. $800 - $1,200
    Bonhams, Mar. 22 – Apr. 2: A PLASTIC COAT BY MILLIE DAVID FEATURED IN SOHO NEWS STYLE SECTION, FROM THE COLLECTION OF ANNIE FLANDERS. $500 - $700
    Bonhams, Mar. 22 – Apr. 2: A RUTH BADER GINSBURG JEWELRY BOX. $600 - $900
    Bonhams, Mar. 22 – Apr. 2: A SET OF JONI MITCHELL LYRICS FOR "IF I HAD A HEART." $2,000 - $3,000
  • 19th Century Shop
    Catalogue 198 just published
    19th Century Shop. Darwin and Wallace, first printing of the first paper on natural selection
    19th Century Shop. Shakespeare’s Poems, first collected edition
    19th Century Shop. Walt Whitman portrait inscribed with a Leaves of Grass poem
    19th Century Shop. Major Elizabeth Barrett Browning manuscript notebook
    19th Century Shop. Spock's Baby Book, original MS
    19th Century Shop. Cellarius, Harmonia Macrocosmica, the great celestial atlas
  • Potter & Potter Auctions
    How History Unfolds on Paper:
    Choice Selections from the Eric C. Caren Collection
    Part IX
    April 18, 2024
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: [RUTH, George Herman “Babe” (1895-1948)]. Signed photograph. Circa 1930s. 191 x 248 mm. $1,500 to $2,500.
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: HARRISON, Benjamin. Document signed (“Benj Harrison”) as governor of Virginia, certifying the service of Daniel Cumbo, a Black Revolutionary soldier. $6,000 to $9,000.
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: ONE OF THE FIRST PRINTED ANNOUNCEMENTS OF THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE. $4,000 to $6,000.
    Potter & Potter Auctions
    How History Unfolds on Paper:
    Choice Selections from the Eric C. Caren Collection
    Part IX
    April 18, 2024
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: FIRST PRINTING OF LINCOLN’S IMMORTAL GETTYSBURG ADDRESS. $4,000 to $6,000.
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: HIGHLY IMPORTANT MORMON ARCHIVE. ALLEY, George. Archive of 23 Autograph Letters Signed by Mormon Convert George Alley to His Brother Joseph Alley. $10,000 to $20,000.
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: [AVIATION]. [ARMSTRONG, Neil A.] Aviation Hall of Fame Gold Medal MS64 NGC, Awarded to Neil Armstrong in 1979. $2,000 to $3,000.
    Potter & Potter Auctions
    How History Unfolds on Paper:
    Choice Selections from the Eric C. Caren Collection
    Part IX
    April 18, 2024
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: NEWLY DISCOVERED FIRST PRINTING OF "WITH MALICE TOWARDS NONE... " FROM THE ONLY NEWSPAPER ACTUALLY ALLOWED TO PARTICIPATE IN LINCOLN’S SECOND INAUGURAL PROCESSION. $4,000 to $8,000.
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: THE MOST IMPORTANT GEORGE WASHINGTON DOCUMENT IN PRIVATE HANDS; GEORGE WASHINGTON’S COMMISSION AS COMMANDER IN CHIEF, 1775, ONE OF ONLY TWO ORIGINALS. $150,000 to $250,000.
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: A VERY RARE ACCOUNT OF BLACKBEARD’S DEATH AND ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT PIRATE ITEMS EXTANT. $3,000 to $5,000.
    Potter & Potter Auctions
    How History Unfolds on Paper:
    Choice Selections from the Eric C. Caren Collection
    Part IX
    April 18, 2024
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: EDISON, Thomas. Patent for Edison’s Improvements on the Electric-Light, No. 219,628. [Washington, D.C.: U.S. Patent Office], 16 September 1879. $2,000 to $3,000.
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: [VIETNAM WAR]. The original pen used by Secretary of State William P. Rogers to sign the Vietnam Peace Agreement, Paris, 27 January 1973. $10,000 to $15,000.
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: SONS OF LIBERTY FOUNDER COLONEL BARRÉ ANNOTATED TITLE-PAGE, “WHICH OUGHT TO ROUSE UP BRITISH ATTENTION”. $4,000 to $6,000.
  • Forum Auctions
    Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    28th March 2024
    Forum Mar. 28: [Langland (William)]. The vision of Pierce Plowman, nowe the seconde time imprinted..., Roberte Crowley, 1550. £8,000 to £10,000.
    Forum Mar. 28: [Shakespeare (William)]. [Comedies, Histories, and Tragedies], second folio edition, [by Tho.Cotes, for Robert Allot], [1632]. £30,000 to £40,000.
    Forum Mar. 28: Bible, Czech Biblia Bohemica, first complete Bible printed in the Czech vernacular, Prague, August 1488. £30,000 to £40,000.
    Forum Auctions
    Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    28th March 2024
    Forum Mar. 28: Shabthai Tzvi.- Collection of four printed and illustrated broadsides detailing the appearance, rise and fall of the false messiah, Shabthai Tzvi, Augsburg, 1666-67. £40,000 to £60,000.
    Forum Mar. 28: Leaf from the Beauvais Missal, in Latin, illuminated manuscript on parchment, [Northern France (perhaps Beauvais or Amiens)], [fourteenth century (c.1310)]. £4,000 to £6,000.
    Forum Mar. 28: Aubrey (John). [Remaines of Gentilisme and Judaisme], manuscript in English, Latin and Greek, [c. 1693]. £30,000 to £50,000.
    Forum Auctions
    Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    28th March 2024
    Forum Mar. 28: Byron (George Gordon Noel, Lord). Poems on Various Occasions, first edition, Harriet Maltby's copy, Newark, Printed by S. & J. Ridge, 1807. £30,000 to £40,000.
    Forum Mar. 28: Tolkien (J.R.R.) The Hobbit, first edition, second impression with dust-jacket, 1937 [but 1938]. £7,000 to £10,000.
    Forum Mar. 28: Blake (William).- Thornton (Robert John). The Pastorals of Virgil, 2 vol., engraved plates by William Blake, 1821. £8,000 to £12,000.
    Forum Auctions
    Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    28th March 2024
    Forum Mar. 28: America.- Mount (William J.) & Thomas Page. The English Pilot…, [bound with] The Fourth Book, describing The West Indies Navigation from Hudson's-Bay to the River Amazones, 1721. £20,000 to £30,000.
    Forum Mar. 28: Oldfield (Henry Ambrose), Rajman Singh Chitrakar & others. An album of 160 photographs and 13 original artworks, (1833-1919), [c. 1850s-1880s]. £20,000 to £30,000.
    Forum Mar. 28: Audubon (John James) [and William MacGillivray]. Ornithological Biography…, 5 vol., first edition, presentation copy inscribed by Audubon, Edinburgh, 1831-49 [i.e. 1831-39]. £10,000 to £15,000.
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