Swann Galleries: Focus on Women
Auction Reports
| Auction Name | Focus on Women | Total Sales (USD) | 244,499.00 |
| Auction Date | June 02, 2022 - June 02, 2022 | Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) | 135,050.00 |
| Sale Number | #2607 | High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) | 204,000.00 |
| Total Lots | 199 | ||
| Sold Lots | 158 | Low Estimate of All Lots (USD) | 201,200.00 |
| % of Lots Sold | 79.40% | High Estimate of All Lots (USD) | 301,250.00 |
| Unsold Lots | 41 | Total Sales as a % of High Est. | 81.16% |
Top twenty-five by sale price
| Lot Number | Author Name | Book Title | Year Published | Estimate | Actual Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Alcott, Louisa May | Autograph Letter Signed, undated, post-1868. |
post-1868 | USD 1,200.00 - 1,800.00 | USD 23,750.00 |
| 15 | Bradstreet, Anne | Several Poems Compiled with Great Variety of Wit and Learning, full of Delight. |
1758 | USD 1,000.00 - 2,000.00 | USD 21,250.00 |
| 116 | Levitt, Helen | Four Silver Prints. |
Circa 1940. | USD 5,000.00 - 7,500.00 | USD 5,500.00 |
| 9 | Bierstadt, Eliza | One Mixed Media Miniature Painting; and Original Botanical Collage. |
USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 | USD 5,250.00 | |
| 84 | Johnson, Georgia Douglas | Bronze: a Book of Verse, Signed and Inscribed First Edition. |
1922 | USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 | USD 5,250.00 |
| 13 | Bochoráková-Dittrichová, Helena | Z Mého Detství Drevoryty. |
1929 | USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 | USD 5,000.00 |
| 22 | Cahun, Claude [aka Lucy Schwod] | Aveux Non Avenus. |
1930 | USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | USD 4,750.00 |
| 34 | de Kooning, Elaine Fried | Small Archive of Material. |
USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | USD 4,750.00 | |
| 109 | Leighton, Clare | III: Loading, from the Lumber Camp Series. |
1931 | USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | USD 4,750.00 |
| 78 | Harvard College's House Cleaning Team. Salt Print, circa 1863. |
circa 1863. | USD 300.00 - 500.00 | USD 4,500.00 | |
| 56 | Frankenthaler, Helen | Untitled (Cleveland Orchestra Print). |
1978 | USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 | USD 4,000.00 |
| 107 | Leighton, Clare | I: Cutting, from the Lumber Camp Series. |
1931 | USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 | USD 4,000.00 |
| 197 | Woolf, Virginia | A Room of One's Own, Signed Limited Edition. |
1929 | USD 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 | USD 4,000.00 |
| 108 | Leighton, Clare | II: Limbing, from the Lumber Camp Series. |
1931 | USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 | USD 3,750.00 |
| 111 | Leighton, Clare | V: Resting, from the Lumber Camp Series. |
1931 | USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 | USD 3,750.00 |
| 112 | Leighton, Clare | VI: Breaking Camp, from the Lumber Camp Series. |
1931 | USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | USD 3,500.00 |
| 127 | Meriwether, Lide Parker Smith | Autograph Manuscript of Lecture Notes. |
1880s. | USD 300.00 - 500.00 | USD 3,500.00 |
| 142 | Parrish, Clara Weaver | Isabella and the Pot of Basil. |
Circa 1899. | USD 1,800.00 - 2,200.00 | USD 3,500.00 |
| 77 | Harrison, Laura Elizabeth Sterne | Manuscript Diary of Several Voyages Including an Overland Trip to California, and a Climbi |
1872-1873. | USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | USD 3,250.00 |
| 176 | Truth, Sojourner | Narrative of Sojourner Truth; a Bondswoman of Olden Time, Drawn from her Book of Life. |
1875 | USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | USD 3,250.00 |
| 186 | Wingrove, Ann | The Spinster's Tale; in which is Introduced, Langbridge Fort, a Romance. |
1801 | USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | USD 3,250.00 |
| 80 | Hosmer, Harriet Goodhue | Autograph Letter Signed, Watertown, MA, 24 August [no year, circa 1860]. |
USD 300.00 - 500.00 | USD 3,000.00 | |
| 173 | Sterne, Hedda | Untitled (The Vertical Horizontals I, II, IV and V). |
1967 | USD 2,500.00 - 3,500.00 | USD 3,000.00 |
| 19 | Buck, Pearl S. | The Good Earth. |
1931 | USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 | USD 2,750.00 |
| 103 | Larsen, Nella | Passing. |
1929 | USD 600.00 - 800.00 | USD 2,750.00 |
