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Rago Arts and Auctions: LAMA: Photographs

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Auction Name LAMA: Photographs Total Sales (USD) 597,378.00
Auction Date December 12, 2024 - December 12, 2024 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 414,300.00
Sale Number #121224 High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 612,400.00
Total Lots 242
Sold Lots 219.0 Low Estimate of All Lots (USD) 477,200.00
% of Lots Sold 90.50% High Estimate of All Lots (USD) 710,200.00
Unsold Lots 23 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 84.11%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
141 Gregory Crewdson b.1962 follow artist

Untitled (bed of roses) (from the Beneath the Roses series)

2005 USD 25,000.00 - 35,000.00 USD 32,760.00
153 Tracey Moffatt b.1960 follow artist

Something More, 3

1989 USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 25,800.00
147 Gregory Crewdson b.1962 follow artist

Untitled (woman stain) (from the Twilight series)

2001 USD 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 USD 21,420.00
144 Gregory Crewdson b.1962 follow artist

Untitled (Dylan on the floor)

2001 USD 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 USD 20,160.00
103 Hiroshi Sugimoto b.1948 follow artist

Lightning Fields 128

2009 USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 USD 13,860.00
152 Gregory Crewdson b.1962 follow artist

Untitled (man sodding street closed) (from the Hover series)

1996 USD 2,500.00 - 3,500.00 USD 12,600.00
175 Jim French 1932--2017 follow artist

John Pruitt Bow and Arrow, Studio

1984 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 12,600.00
142 Gregory Crewdson b.1962 follow artist

Untitled (burning house) (from the Hover series)

1997 USD 2,500.00 - 3,500.00 USD 11,340.00
149 Alex Prager b.1979 follow artist

Eve (from The Big Valley series)

2008 USD 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 USD 11,340.00
118 James Van Der Zee 1886--1983 follow artist

James Van Der Zee: Eighteen Photographs

1905-38 / printed 1974 USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 USD 10,710.00
140 Gregory Crewdson b.1962 follow artist

Untitled (bear with pool of milk)

1998 USD 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 USD 10,710.00
146 Gregory Crewdson b.1962 follow artist

Untitled (pregnant woman)

2001 USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 USD 9,450.00
160 Nan Goldin b.1953 follow artist

James backstage at Lagerfeld show, Paris

1995 USD 2,500.00 - 3,500.00 USD 9,450.00
247 Edward S. Curtis 1868--1952 follow artist

An Oasis in the Badlands

1905 / printed c. 1915 USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 9,450.00
143 Gregory Crewdson b.1962 follow artist

Untitled (dead girl in garden)

1998 USD 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 USD 8,820.00
112 Andy Goldsworthy b.1956

Burnt sticks Installed at Galerie Lelong, New York 1996 Returned and remade at Buckhorn, 1998 In the dried up bed of a pond Revisited the following year, 1999 After the pond had filled and emptied Buckhorn, New York

2000 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 8,190.00
130 Barkley L. Hendricks 1945--2017 follow artist

Hearts and Flowers #3

1978-79 USD 2,000.00 - 2,500.00 USD 8,190.00
221 Diane Arbus 1923--1971 follow artist

Tattooed Man at a Carnival, MD

1970 / printed later USD 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 USD 8,190.00
178 Robert Mapplethorpe 1946--1989 follow artist

Orchid with Palmetto Leaf

1982 USD 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 USD 6,550.00
105 Hiroshi Sugimoto b.1948 follow artist

Woodland Cemetery (from the Architecture series)

2001 USD 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 USD 6,300.00
163 Catherine Opie b.1961 follow artist

Surfers

2019 USD 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 USD 6,048.00
200 Henri Cartier-Bresson 1908--2004 follow artist

Brasserie Lipp, Saint-Germain-des-Pres, Paris

1969 / printed later USD 2,000.00 - 2,500.00 USD 6,048.00
220 Diane Arbus 1923--1971 follow artist

A House on a Hill, Hollywood, CA

1963 / printed c. 1971 USD 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 USD 6,048.00
122 Gordon Parks 1912--2006

Ethel Sharrieff, Chicago, IL

1963 / printed later USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 5,670.00
148 Gregory Crewdson b.1962 follow artist

Fireflies

1993 USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 USD 5,670.00
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