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Auction Name 20th Century Modern and Contemporary Art Total Sales (USD) 273,216.00
Auction Date June 02, 2022 - June 02, 2022 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 149,000.00
Sale Number #13048 High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 249,500.00
Total Lots 103
Sold Lots 87 Low Estimate of All Lots (USD) 173,600.00
% of Lots Sold 84.47% High Estimate of All Lots (USD) 290,900.00
Unsold Lots 16 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 93.92%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
203 Mel Bochner (b. 1940)

Head Honcho

2011 USD 6,000.00 - 9,000.00 USD 17,920.00
204 Frank Stella (b. 1936)

Shards Variant IA

1982 USD 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 USD 15,360.00
210 Matthew Brandt (b. 1982)

Lakes and Reservoirs: Twelve Images

2013 USD 30,000.00 - 50,000.00 USD 14,080.00
392 Josef Albers (1888-1976)

I-S a

1968 USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 14,080.00
250 Massimo Campigli (1895-1971)

Two Figures

1948 USD 2,000.00 - 4,000.00 USD 10,880.00
374 Andy Warhol (1928-1987)

Cow

1976 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 10,880.00
406 Arthur Tress (b. 1940)

Theatre of the Mind

1976 USD 6,000.00 - 9,000.00 USD 8,960.00
217 Nan Goldin (b. 1953)

Simon on the Subway, NYC

1998 USD 2,000.00 - 4,000.00 USD 8,320.00
200 Zao Wou-ki (1921-2013)

Jardin la nuit

1954 USD 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 USD 7,040.00
404 Christopher Le Brun (b. 1951)

Fifty Etchings

1990 USD 2,000.00 - 4,000.00 USD 7,040.00
412 Aaron Siskind (1903-1991)

Harlem Document: Twelve Images

USD 2,000.00 - 4,000.00 USD 6,080.00
415 Steve McCurry (b. 1950)

Rajasthan IndiaDigital

1983 USD 2,000.00 - 4,000.00 USD 6,080.00
230 Henri Matisse (1869-1954)

Le Danseur

USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 USD 5,760.00
449 Hannah Wilke (1940-1993)

Beware of Fascist Feminism

1977 USD 2,000.00 - 4,000.00 USD 5,440.00
393 Josef Albers (1888-1976)

I-S b

1968 USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 USD 5,120.00
416 Shirin Neshat (b. 1957)

Rapture Series

1999 USD 1,500.00 - 3,000.00 USD 5,120.00
211 Helen Frankenthaler (1928-2011)

Venice II

1969 USD 2,000.00 - 4,000.00 USD 4,800.00
233 Pablo Picasso (1881-1973)

Le Chevalier et le page

1951 USD 2,000.00 - 4,000.00 USD 4,800.00
361 Louise Nevelson (1899-1988)

Untitled

1967 USD 1,500.00 - 3,000.00 USD 4,800.00
381 Christopher Makos (b. 1948)

Altered Image Portfolio

1982 USD 2,000.00 - 4,000.00 USD 4,800.00
397 Josef Albers (1888-1976)

MMA-3 Variant

1970 USD 2,000.00 - 4,000.00 USD 4,480.00
273 Robert Motherwell (1915-1991)

Automatism Elegy (State I White)

1980 USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 USD 3,840.00
396 Josef Albers (1888-1976)

MMA-I

1970 USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 USD 3,840.00
378 After Andy Warhol (1928-1987) and Jean-Michel Basquiat (1960-1988)

Warhol-Basquiat Poster

1985 USD 600.00 - 900.00 USD 3,712.00
399 Josef Albers (1888-1976)

Joseph Albers at the Metropolitan Museum of Art: P-Black

1971 USD 1,500.00 - 3,000.00 USD 3,712.00
  • Jeschke Jadi
    Auction 151
    Saturday, April 27, 2024
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 546. Christoph Jacob Trew. Plantae selectae, 1750-1773.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 70. Thomas Murner. Die Narren beschwerung. 1558.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 621. Michael Bernhard Valentini. Museum Museorum, 1714.
    Jeschke Jadi
    Auction 151
    Saturday, April 27, 2024
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 545. Sander Reichenbachia. Orchids illustrated and described, 1888-1894.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 1018. Marinetti, Boccioni, Pratella Futurism - Comprehensive collection of 35 Futurist manifestos, some of them exceptionally rare. 1909-1933.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 634. August Johann Rösel von Rosenhof. 3 Original Drawings, around 1740.
    Jeschke Jadi
    Auction 151
    Saturday, April 27, 2024
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 671. Jacob / Picasso. Chronique des Temps, 1956.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 1260. Mary Webb. Sarn. 1948. Lucie Weill Art Deco Binding.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 508. Felix Bonfils. 108 large-format photographs of Syria and Palestine.
    Jeschke Jadi
    Auction 151
    Saturday, April 27, 2024
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 967. Dante Aligheri and Salvador Dali. Divina Commedia, 1963.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 1316. Tolouse-Lautrec. Dessinateur. Duhayon binding, 1948.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 1303. Regards sur Paris. Braque, Picasso, Masson, 1962.
  • Fonsie Mealy’s
    Rare Book & Collectors Sale
    24th April 2024
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: McCarthy (Cormac). Cities of the Plain, N.Y., 1998, First Edn., signed on hf. title; together with Uncorrected Proof and Uncorrected Advance Reading Copies, both signed by the Author. €800 to €1,000.
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: Stanihurst (Richard). De Rebus in Hibernia Gestis, Libri Quattuor, sm. 4to Antwerp (Christi. Plantium) 1584. First Edn. €525 to €750.
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: Fleischer (Nat.) Jack Dempsey The Idol of Fistiana, An Intimate Narrative, N.Y., 1929, First Edn. Signed on f.e.p. by Rocky Marciano. €400 to €600.
    Fonsie Mealy’s
    Rare Book & Collectors Sale
    24th April 2024
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: Smith - Classical Atlas, Lond., 1820. Bound with, Smiths New General Atlas .. Principal Empires, Kingdoms, & States throughout the World, Lond. 1822. €350 to €500.
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: Rare Auction Catalogues – 1856: Bindon Blood, of Ennis, Co. Clare: Sotheby & Wilkinson. €320 to €450.
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: [Mavor (Wm.)] A General Collection of Voyages and Travels from the Discovery of America to the Commencement of the Nineteenth Century, 28 vols. (complete) Lond., 1810. €300 to €400.
    Fonsie Mealy’s
    Rare Book & Collectors Sale
    24th April 2024
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: Mc Carthy (Cormac). Outer Dark, N.Y. (Random House)1968, Signed by Mc Carthy. €250 to €300.
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: Three signed works by Ted Huges - Wodwo, 1967; Crow from the Life and Songs of the Crow, 1970; and Tales from Ovid, 1997. €200 to €300.
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: The Garden. An Illustrated Weekly Journal of Horticulture in all its Branches, 7 vols. lg. 4to Lond. 1877-1880. With 127 colored plates. €200 to €300.
    Fonsie Mealy’s
    Rare Book & Collectors Sale
    24th April 2024
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: Procter (Richard A.) Saturn and its System: Containing Discussions of The Motion (Real and Apparent)…, Lond. 1865. First Edn. €160 to €220.
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: [Ashe] St. George, Lord Bishop of Clogher, A Sermon Preached to the Protestants of Ireland, now in London,... Oct. 23, 1712, London 1712. Second Edn. €130 to €180.
  • 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
  • Leland Little, Apr. 26: First Edition of Piccolomini's De La Sfera del Mondo (The Sphere of the World), 1540.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: First Edition of Vellutello's Commentary on Petrarch, With Map, 1525.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: Finely Bound Definitive, Illustrated Edition of I Promessi Sposi, 1840.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: Rare First Edition of John Milton's Latin Correspondence, 1674.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: Giolito's Edition of Boccaccio's The Decamerone, with Bedford Binding, 1542.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: First Edition of the First Biography of Marie of the Incarnation, with Rare Portrait, 1677.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: First Aldine Edition of Volume One of Cicero's Orationes, 1540.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: First Edition of Bonanni's Illustrated Costume Catalogue, with Complete Plates, 1711.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: An Important Incunable, the First Italian Edition of Josephus's De Bello Judaico, 1480.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: First Edition of Jacques Philippe d'Orville's Illustrated Book of the Ruins of Sicily, 1764.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: An Incunable from 1487, The Contemplative Life, with Early Manuscript.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: Ignatius of Loyola's Exercitia Spiritualia, 1563.
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