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Auction Name In the Moment: Contemporary Art Total Sales (ZAR) 149,786.00
Auction Date February 18, 2025 - February 18, 2025 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (ZAR) 114,000.00
Sale Number #21825 High Estimate of Lots Sold (ZAR) 171,000.00
Total Lots 57
Sold Lots 28.0 Low Estimate of All Lots (ZAR) 487,000.00
% of Lots Sold 49.12% High Estimate of All Lots (ZAR) 698,500.00
Unsold Lots 29 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 21.44%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
6 Robert Hodgins (South Africa 1920-2010)

Night Traffic

 1991/2 ZAR 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 ZAR 35,175.00
1 Lisa Brice (South Africa 1968-)

Many Women Little Time

 1998 ZAR 12,000.00 - 18,000.00 ZAR 19,932.00
31 Diane Victor (South Africa 1964-)

No Hope, No Guts, No Glory - AGAIN

 1992 ZAR 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 ZAR 9,380.00
77 Claire Gavronsky (South Africa 1957-)

Run with the Hare and Hunt with the Hounds

 2011 ZAR 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 ZAR 7,621.00
20 Norman Catherine (South Africa 1949-)

Birdman

 ZAR 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 ZAR 7,035.00
49 Sam Nhlengethwa (South Africa 1955-)

Take One

 2002 ZAR 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 ZAR 4,924.00
51 Sam Nhlengethwa (South Africa 1955-)

Take Two

 2002 ZAR 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 ZAR 4,924.00
47 David Koloane (South Africa 1938-2019)

THREE DOGS AND A MOON

 2015 ZAR 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 ZAR 4,690.00
48 David Koloane (South Africa 1938-2019)

THREE DOGS AND A MOON II

 2015 ZAR 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 ZAR 4,690.00
62 Storm Thorgerson (Britain 1944-2013)

Beach Catalogue

 ZAR 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 ZAR 4,690.00
88 Themba Khumalo (South Africa 1987-)

Down Town Drive (from the Colour Line portfolio)

 2014 ZAR 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 ZAR 4,456.00
80 Lehlogonolo Mashaba (South Africa 1983-)

Dis/Integrate I Study II (from the Colour Line portfolio)

 2014 ZAR 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 ZAR 3,752.00
14 Colbert Mashile (South Africa 1972-)

Moruti-wa-lesela

 2007 ZAR 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 ZAR 3,518.00
21 Atang Tshikare (South African)

Ntjapedi (from the Colour Line portfolio)

 2014 ZAR 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 ZAR 3,518.00
82 Bevan De Wet (South Africa 1985-)

Study for unravelling Venus (from the Colour Line portfolio)

 2014 ZAR 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 ZAR 3,518.00
100 Bongi Bengu (South Africa 1970-)

Life of Domesticity

 2000 ZAR 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 ZAR 3,518.00
34 Chopped Liver Press (Adam Broomberg & Oliver Chanarin) (South Africa b. 1970 & 1971)

Bandage the Knife Not the Wound

 2017 ZAR 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 ZAR 3,283.00
35 Chopped Liver Press (Adam Broomberg & Oliver Chanarin) (South Africa b. 1970 & 1971)

Death Always Happens to Other People

 2015 ZAR 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 ZAR 2,345.00
36 Chopped Liver Press (Adam Broomberg & Oliver Chanarin) ((South Africa b. 1970 & 1971))

Don't Start with the Good Old Things but the Bad New Ones

 2014 ZAR 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 ZAR 2,345.00
37 Chopped Liver Press (Adam Broomberg & Oliver Chanarin) ((South Africa b. 1970 & 1971))

Comedy is a Man in Trouble

 2016 ZAR 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 ZAR 2,345.00
38 Chopped Liver Press (Adam Broomberg & Oliver Chanarin) (South Africa b. 1970 & 1971)

Death Keeps Me Awake

 ZAR 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 ZAR 2,345.00
63 Gary Stephens (United States 1962-)

Spinal (from the Colour Line portfolio)

 2014 ZAR 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 ZAR 2,345.00
81 Isaac Zavale (Mozambique 1987-)

The time will come (from the Colour Line portfolio)

 2014 ZAR 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 ZAR 2,345.00
91 Virginia MacKenny (United Kingdom 1959-)

Coelacanth

 2008 ZAR 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 ZAR 2,228.00
84 Gordon Froud (South Africa 1963-)

Acowpuncture - after Warhol

 2006 ZAR 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 ZAR 2,110.00
  • <b><center>Heritage Auctions<br>Rare Books Signature Auction<br>December 15, 2025</center></b> <b>Heritage, Dec. 15:</b> John Donne. <i>Poems, By J. D. With Elegies on the Author's Death.</i> London: M[iles]. F[lesher]. for John Marriot, 1633. <b>Heritage, Dec. 15:</b> Edgar Rice Burroughs. <i>Tarzan of the Apes.</i> <b>Heritage, Dec. 15:</b> F. Scott Fitzgerald. <i>Tender is the Night. A Romance.</i> <b>Heritage, Dec. 15:</b> Bram Stoker. <i>Dracula.</i> Westminster: Archibald Constable & Co., 1897. <b>Heritage, Dec. 15:</b> Jerry Thomas. <i>How to Mix Drinks, or the Bon-Vivant's Companion, Containing Clear and Reliable Directions for Mixing All the Beverages Used in the United States…</i>
    Heritage Auctions
    Rare Books Signature Auction
    December 15, 2025
    Heritage, Dec. 15: John Donne. Poems, By J. D. With Elegies on the Author's Death. London: M[iles]. F[lesher]. for John Marriot, 1633.
    Heritage, Dec. 15: Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
    Heritage, Dec. 15: F. Scott Fitzgerald. Tender is the Night. A Romance.
    Heritage, Dec. 15: Bram Stoker. Dracula. Westminster: Archibald Constable & Co., 1897.
    Heritage, Dec. 15: Jerry Thomas. How to Mix Drinks, or the Bon-Vivant's Companion, Containing Clear and Reliable Directions for Mixing All the Beverages Used in the United States…
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  • <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> Autograph Letter Signed ("Martinus Luther") to His Friend the Theologian Gerhard Wiskamp ("Gerardo Xantho Lampadario"). $100,000 - $150,000. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> An Exceptionally Fine Copy of Austenís Emma: A Novel in Three Volumes. $40,000 - $60,000. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> Presentation Copy of Ernest Hemmingwayís A Farewell to Arms for Edward Titus of the Black Mankin Press. $30,000 - $50,000. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> Autograph Manuscript Signed Integrally for "The Songs of Pooh," by Alan Alexander. $30,000 - $50,000. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> Autograph Manuscript of "Three Fragments from Gˆtterd‰mmerung" by Richard Wagner. $30,000 - $50,000. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> Original Preliminary Artwork, for the First Edition of Snow Crash. $20,000 - $30,000. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> Autograph Letter Signed ("T.R. Malthus") to Economist Nassau Senior on Wealth, Labor and Adam Smith. $20,000 - $30,000. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides Finely Bound by Michael Wilcox. $20,000 - $30,000. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> First Edition of Lewis and Clark: Travels to the Source of the Missouri River and Across the American Continent to the Pacific Ocean. $8,000 - $12,000. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> Original Artwork for the First Edition of Neal Stephenson's Groundbreaking Novel Snow Crash. $100,000 - $150,000. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> A Complete Set Signed Deluxe Editions of King's The Dark Tower Series by Stephen King. $8,000 - $12,000. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> Autograph Letter Signed ("John Adams") to James Le Ray de Chaumont During the Crucial Years of the Revolutionary War. $8,000 - $12,000.
    Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Letter Signed ("Martinus Luther") to His Friend the Theologian Gerhard Wiskamp ("Gerardo Xantho Lampadario"). $100,000 - $150,000.
    Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: An Exceptionally Fine Copy of Austenís Emma: A Novel in Three Volumes. $40,000 - $60,000.
    Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Presentation Copy of Ernest Hemmingwayís A Farewell to Arms for Edward Titus of the Black Mankin Press. $30,000 - $50,000.
    Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Manuscript Signed Integrally for "The Songs of Pooh," by Alan Alexander. $30,000 - $50,000.
    Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Manuscript of "Three Fragments from Gˆtterd‰mmerung" by Richard Wagner. $30,000 - $50,000.
    Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Original Preliminary Artwork, for the First Edition of Snow Crash. $20,000 - $30,000.
    Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Letter Signed ("T.R. Malthus") to Economist Nassau Senior on Wealth, Labor and Adam Smith. $20,000 - $30,000.
    Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides Finely Bound by Michael Wilcox. $20,000 - $30,000.
    Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: First Edition of Lewis and Clark: Travels to the Source of the Missouri River and Across the American Continent to the Pacific Ocean. $8,000 - $12,000.
    Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Original Artwork for the First Edition of Neal Stephenson's Groundbreaking Novel Snow Crash. $100,000 - $150,000.
    Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: A Complete Set Signed Deluxe Editions of King's The Dark Tower Series by Stephen King. $8,000 - $12,000.
    Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Letter Signed ("John Adams") to James Le Ray de Chaumont During the Crucial Years of the Revolutionary War. $8,000 - $12,000.
  • <center><b>Sotheby’s<br>Book Week<br>December 9-17, 2025</b></center> <b>Sotheby’s, Dec. 17:</b> Francesco Colonna. <i>Hypnerotomachie,</i> Paris, 1546, Parisian calf by Wotton Binder C for Marcus Fugger. €200,000 to €300,000. <b>Sotheby’s, Dec. 17:</b> Nausea. <i>De principiis dialectices Gorgias,</i> and other works, Venice, 1523, morocco gilt for Cardinal Campeggio. €3,000 to €4,000. <b>Sotheby’s, Dec. 17:</b> Billon. <i>Le fort inexpugnable de l'honneur,</i> Paris, 1555, Parisian calf gilt for Peter Ernst, Graf von Mansfeld. €120,000 to €180,000. <center><b>Sotheby’s<br>Book Week<br>December 9-17, 2025</b></center> <b>Sotheby’s, Dec. 16:</b> Salinger, J.D. The Graham Family archive, including autographed letters, an inscribed Catcher, a rare studio photograph of the author, and more. $120,000 to $180,000. <b>Sotheby’s, Dec. 16:</b> [Austen, Jane]. A handsome first edition of <i>Sense and Sensibility,</i> the author's first novel. $60,000 to $80,000. <b>Sotheby’s, Dec. 16:</b> Massachusetts General Court. A powerful precursor to the Declaration of Independence: "every Act of Government … without the Consent of the People, is … Tyranny." $40,000 to $60,000.
    Sotheby’s
    Book Week
    December 9-17, 2025
    Sotheby’s, Dec. 17: Francesco Colonna. Hypnerotomachie, Paris, 1546, Parisian calf by Wotton Binder C for Marcus Fugger. €200,000 to €300,000.
    Sotheby’s, Dec. 17: Nausea. De principiis dialectices Gorgias, and other works, Venice, 1523, morocco gilt for Cardinal Campeggio. €3,000 to €4,000.
    Sotheby’s, Dec. 17: Billon. Le fort inexpugnable de l'honneur, Paris, 1555, Parisian calf gilt for Peter Ernst, Graf von Mansfeld. €120,000 to €180,000.
    Sotheby’s
    Book Week
    December 9-17, 2025
    Sotheby’s, Dec. 16: Salinger, J.D. The Graham Family archive, including autographed letters, an inscribed Catcher, a rare studio photograph of the author, and more. $120,000 to $180,000.
    Sotheby’s, Dec. 16: [Austen, Jane]. A handsome first edition of Sense and Sensibility, the author's first novel. $60,000 to $80,000.
    Sotheby’s, Dec. 16: Massachusetts General Court. A powerful precursor to the Declaration of Independence: "every Act of Government … without the Consent of the People, is … Tyranny." $40,000 to $60,000.