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Morton Subastas: Modern Art - Prints, and Books on Art

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Auction Name Modern Art - Prints, and Books on Art Total Sales (MXN) 539,880.00
Auction Date September 05, 2020 - September 05, 2020 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (MXN) 441,900.00
Sale Number #0014L High Estimate of Lots Sold (MXN) 693,000.00
Total Lots 119
Sold Lots 83 Low Estimate of All Lots (MXN) 1,678,900.00
% of Lots Sold 69.75% High Estimate of All Lots (MXN) 2,360,000.00
Unsold Lots 36 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 22.88%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
178 LEONORA CARRINGTON

Crookhey Hall

1987 MXN 90,000.00 - 120,000.00 MXN 103,200.00
243 RUFINO TAMAYO

Femme en Mauve (Mujer en lila)

1969 MXN 65,000.00 - 75,000.00 MXN 74,400.00
189 ERNESTO "EL CHANGO" GARCÍA CABRAL

Naturalezas muertas

MXN 22,000.00 - 30,000.00 MXN 24,000.00
36 DAVID ALFARO SIQUEIROS

El centauro de la conquista

1945 MXN 16,000.00 - 22,000.00 MXN 22,800.00
157 ROBERTO MATTA

Sin tíítulo, de la carpeta "Une saison en enfer"

1978 MXN 19,000.00 - 30,000.00 MXN 21,600.00
239 DAVID ALFARO SIQUEIROS

Meditation, de la carpeta Mexican Suite

1969 MXN 16,000.00 - 32,000.00 MXN 19,200.00
9 DAVID ALFARO SIQUEIROS

Mujer en la cárcel, de la serie Mountain Suite

1969 MXN 16,000.00 - 22,000.00 MXN 18,000.00
112 DAVID ALFARO SIQUEIROS

Mountain dancers, Mexican Suite

1969 MXN 16,000.00 - 22,000.00 MXN 18,000.00
90 LOLA ÁLVAREZ BRAVO

Sin tíítulo

MXN 13,000.00 - 19,000.00 MXN 14,400.00
173 JOSÉ LUIS CUEVAS

La Maga

72 MXN 9,000.00 - 12,000.00 MXN 9,600.00
134 JOAN MIRÓ

Japón, de la carpeta Miró Escultor

1974 MXN 7,000.00 - 9,000.00 MXN 8,400.00
162 SALVADOR DAL͍ (Figueras, España, 1904 - 1989)

Apparition of the Face of the Aphrodite of Knidos in a Landscape Setting

1981 MXN 7,000.00 - 11,000.00 MXN 8,400.00
183 JAN HENDRIX

Lluvia

MXN 5,000.00 - 8,000.00 MXN 8,400.00
135 JOAN MIRÓ

Italia, de la carpeta Miró Escultor

1974 MXN 7,000.00 - 9,000.00 MXN 7,800.00
140 ANDY WARHOL

II.29: Marilyn Monroe

MXN 7,000.00 - 12,000.00 MXN 7,800.00
137 JOAN MIRÓ

Portugal, de la carpeta Miró Escultor

1974 MXN 7,000.00 - 9,000.00 MXN 7,200.00
7 Brewster, Jerry.

ZÚÑIGA. THE COMPLETE GRAPHICS.

1985 MXN 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 MXN 6,600.00
219 VÍCTOR CHA'CA. Espejo

Beatriz.

2013 MXN 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 MXN 5,760.00
84 RUFINO TAMAYO

Tamayo, Two Hundred Years of American Growgth 1776 - 1976

MXN 5,000.00 - 8,000.00 MXN 5,040.00
188 MARIO MARTÍN DEL CAMPO

El cientíífico

91 MXN 5,000.00 - 9,000.00 MXN 4,800.00
204 SANTIAGO CARBONELL

Maríía

MXN 5,000.00 - 10,000.00 MXN 4,800.00
205 SANTIAGO CARBONELL

Mujer boceto

1995 MXN 5,000.00 - 10,000.00 MXN 4,800.00
206 SANTIAGO CARBONELL

Sinfoníía de luz

MXN 5,000.00 - 10,000.00 MXN 4,800.00
208 SANTIAGO CARBONELL

Manto rojo

MXN 5,000.00 - 10,000.00 MXN 4,800.00
209 SANTIAGO CARBONELL

Mujer con guante negro

MXN 5,000.00 - 10,000.00 MXN 4,800.00
  • 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
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    Choice Selections from the Eric C. Caren Collection
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    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.
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    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.
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    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.
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    Choice Selections from the Eric C. Caren Collection
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    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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    Sotheby’s, Available Now: Salvador Dalí, Lewis Carroll. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. Finely Bound and Signed Limited Edition. 15,000 USD
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  • 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
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