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Christies: Prints and Multiples

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Auction Name Prints and Multiples Total Sales (USD) 6,457,000.00
Auction Date October 20, 2020 - October 21, 2020 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 4,105,300.00
Sale Number #18583 High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 6,251,500.00
Total Lots 200
Sold Lots 148 Low Estimate of All Lots (USD) 6,321,800.00
% of Lots Sold 74.00% High Estimate of All Lots (USD) 9,497,000.00
Unsold Lots 52 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 67.99%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
1 PABLO PICASSO (1881-1973)

Buste de femme d'après Cranach le Jeune

1958 USD 300,000.00 - 500,000.00 USD 687,500.00
155 ANDY WARHOL (1928-1987)

Campbell's Soup II

1969 USD 300,000.00 - 500,000.00 USD 525,000.00
59 EDVARD MUNCH (1863-1944)

Madonna

1895/1902 USD 300,000.00 - 500,000.00 USD 375,000.00
103 DONALD JUDD (1928-1994)

Untitled

1990 USD 100,000.00 - 150,000.00 USD 243,750.00
162 ROY LICHTENSTEIN (1923-1997)

Nude with Yellow Pillow, from Nude Series

1994 USD 120,000.00 - 180,000.00 USD 218,750.00
13 PABLO PICASSO (1881-1973)

Nature morte sous la lampe

1962 USD 120,000.00 - 180,000.00 USD 150,000.00
181 GERHARD RICHTER (B. 1932)

Mustangs

2005 USD 120,000.00 - 180,000.00 USD 150,000.00
20 PABLO PICASSO (1881-1973)

La Femme au chapeau

1963 USD 100,000.00 - 150,000.00 USD 143,750.00
6 PABLO PICASSO (1881-1973)

Le Déjeuner sur l'herbe

1962 USD 80,000.00 - 120,000.00 USD 125,000.00
36 PABLO PICASSO (1881-1973)

Max Jacob, Le Cornet à dés, Max Jacob, Paris 1917

1917 USD 120,000.00 - 180,000.00 USD 125,000.00
92 BARNETT NEWMAN (1905-1970)

Untitled Etching 2

1969 USD 70,000.00 - 100,000.00 USD 125,000.00
97 HELEN FRANKENTHALER (1928-2011)

Freefall

1993 USD 80,000.00 - 120,000.00 USD 118,750.00
159 ANDY WARHOL (1928-1987)

$ (4): one print

1982 USD 70,000.00 - 100,000.00 USD 118,750.00
14 PABLO PICASSO (1881-1973)

Portrait de Jacqueline

1959 USD 80,000.00 - 120,000.00 USD 112,500.00
170 ANDY WARHOL (1928-1987)

Rebel Without A Cause (James Dean), from Ads

1985 USD 80,000.00 - 120,000.00 USD 112,500.00
29 PABLO PICASSO (1881-1973)

Tête de Femme (Jacqueline au chapeau noir)

1962 USD 70,000.00 - 100,000.00 USD 106,250.00
114 CY TWOMBLY (1928-2011)

Roman Notes: one print

1979 USD 50,000.00 - 70,000.00 USD 100,000.00
172 AFTER JEAN-MICHEL BASQUIAT (1960-1988)

Untitled (Ernok), from Untitled

2001 USD 50,000.00 - 70,000.00 USD 100,000.00
16 PABLO PICASSO (1881-1973)

Femme au collier

1959 USD 50,000.00 - 70,000.00 USD 93,750.00
101 RICHARD DIEBENKORN (1922-1993)

Large Light Blue, from Eight Color Etchings

1980 USD 80,000.00 - 120,000.00 USD 87,500.00
161 ANDY WARHOL (1928-1987)

Hammer and Sickle

1977 USD 50,000.00 - 70,000.00 USD 81,250.00
81 MAX ERNST (1891-1976)

Guillaume Tempel, 65 Maximiliana ou l'Exercise illégal de l'Astronomie, Le Degré 41 (Iliazd), Paris, 1964

USD 70,000.00 - 100,000.00 USD 75,000.00
160 ANDY WARHOL (1928-1987)

$ (1): one print

1982 USD 40,000.00 - 60,000.00 USD 72,500.00
142 FRANCIS BACON (1909-1992)

Étude pour une corrida

1971 USD 40,000.00 - 60,000.00 USD 68,750.00
156 ANDY WARHOL (1928-1987)

Liz

1964 USD 50,000.00 - 70,000.00 USD 68,750.00
  • 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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