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Rago Arts and Auctions: Prints and Multiples

Auction Reports

Auction Name Prints and Multiples Total Sales (USD) 1,215,226.00
Auction Date September 03, 2025 - September 03, 2025 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 829,600.00
Sale Number #90325 High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 1,230,200.00
Total Lots 287
Sold Lots 261.0 Low Estimate of All Lots (USD) 966,900.00
% of Lots Sold 90.94% High Estimate of All Lots (USD) 1,425,100.00
Unsold Lots 26 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 85.27%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
104 Andy Warhol 1928--1987

Kiku

1983 USD 40,000.00 - 60,000.00 USD 69,850.00
106 David Hockney b.1937

Celia with Green Hat (from the Moving Focus series)

1984 USD 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 USD 45,720.00
105 Roy Lichtenstein 1923--1997

Composition III

1996 USD 30,000.00 - 50,000.00 USD 44,450.00
108 Roy Lichtenstein 1923--1997

Wallpaper with Blue Floor Interior

1992 USD 40,000.00 - 60,000.00 USD 44,450.00
116 Roy Lichtenstein 1923--1997

Green Face (from the Brushstroke Figures series)

1989 USD 35,000.00 - 45,000.00 USD 35,560.00
121 Andy Warhol 1928--1987

Mammy (from the Myths series)

1981 USD 30,000.00 - 40,000.00 USD 35,560.00
100 Roy Lichtenstein 1923--1997

Water Lily

1993 USD 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 USD 34,320.00
101 Andy Warhol 1928--1987

Black Bean (from the Campbell's Soup I portfolio)

1968 USD 30,000.00 - 50,000.00 USD 33,020.00
109 Robert Rauschenberg 1925--2008

Sling-Shots Lit #5

1985 USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 USD 31,680.00
308 Mel Bochner 1940--2025

Blah Blah Blah (Inverse)

2022 USD 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 USD 24,130.00
112 Andy Warhol 1928--1987

Cow

1976 USD 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 USD 22,440.00
151 Henri Matisse 1869--1954

La Persane

1929 USD 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 USD 19,050.00
115 Sol LeWitt 1928--2007

Wavy Brushstrokes Superimposed #3

1995 USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 17,160.00
118 Roy Lichtenstein 1923--1997

Against Apartheid

1983 USD 12,000.00 - 15,000.00 USD 15,840.00
111 Frank Stella 1936--2024

Frontispiece (from Illustrations after El Lissitzky's Had Gadya)

1984 USD 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 USD 15,240.00
250 John Baldessari 1931--2020

Throwing Three Balls in the Air to Get a Straight Line (Best of Thirty-Six Attempts)

1973 USD 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 USD 14,520.00
187 Bruce Nauman b.1941

Raw-War

1971 USD 12,000.00 - 18,000.00 USD 13,970.00
314 Agnes Martin 1912--2004

Paintings and Drawings: Stedelijk Museum

1990 USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 13,970.00
184 Jasper Johns b.1930

Regrets

2014 USD 12,000.00 - 18,000.00 USD 12,700.00
327 Johnny Depp b.1963

Elizabeth Taylor; Bob Dylan; Al Pacino; Keith Richards (from the Friends & Heroes series) (four works)

2022 USD 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 USD 12,700.00
103 Roy Lichtenstein 1923--1997

Mirror (from the Mirrors series)

1972 USD 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 USD 12,065.00
181 Jasper Johns b.1930

Savarin 4 (Oval)

1978 USD 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 USD 11,430.00
361 Julian Opie b.1958

Dance, Synced: Dance 2.

2024 USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 USD 10,795.00
221 Andy Warhol 1928--1987

Merce Cunningham I (from the Cunningham I portfolio)

1974 USD 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 USD 10,560.00
162 Rufino Tamayo 1899--1991

Hombre con Pipa

1979 USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 10,160.00
  • Sotheby’s
    Book Week
    December 9-17, 2025
    Sotheby’s, Dec. 11: Darwin and Wallace. On the Tendency of Species to form Varieties..., [in:] Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society, Vol. III, No. 9., 1858, Darwin announces the theory of natural selection. £100,000 to £150,000.
    Sotheby’s, Dec. 11: J.K. Rowling. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, 1997, first edition, hardback issue, inscribed by the author pre-publication. £100,000 to £150,000.
    Sotheby’s, Dec. 11: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Autograph sketchleaf including a probable draft for the E flat Piano Quartet, K.493, 1786. £150,000 to £200,000.
    Sotheby’s, Dec. 12: Hooke, Robert. Micrographia: or some Physiological Descriptions of Minute Bodies made by Magnifying Glasses. London: James Allestry for the Royal Society, 1667. $12,000 to $15,000.
    Sotheby’s, Dec. 12: Chappuzeau, Samuel. The history of jewels, first edition in English. London: T.N. for Hobart Kemp, 1671. $12,000 to $18,000.
    Sotheby’s, Dec. 12: Sowerby, James. Exotic Mineralogy, containing his most realistic mineral depictions, London: Benjamin Meredith, 1811, Arding and Merrett, 1817. $5,000 to $7,000.
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  • Swann
    Maps & Atlases, Natural History & Color Plate Books
    December 9, 2025
    Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 156: Cornelis de Jode, Americae pars Borealis, double-page engraved map of North America, Antwerp, 1593.
    Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 206: John and Alexander Walker, Map of the United States, London and Liverpool, 1827.
    Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 223: Abraham Ortelius, Typus Orbis Terrarum, hand-colored double-page engraved world map, Antwerp, 1575.
    Swann
    Maps & Atlases, Natural History & Color Plate Books
    December 9, 2025
    Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 233: Aaron Arrowsmith, Chart of the World, oversize engraved map on 8 sheets, London, 1790 (circa 1800).
    Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 239: Fielding Lucas, A General Atlas, 81 engraved maps and diagrams, Baltimore, 1823.
    Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 240: Anthony Finley, A New American Atlas, 15 maps engraved by james hamilton young on 14 double-page sheets, Philadelphia, 1826.
    Swann
    Maps & Atlases, Natural History & Color Plate Books
    December 9, 2025
    Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 263: John Bachmann, Panorama of the Seat of War, portfolio of 4 double-page chromolithographed panoramic maps, New York, 1861.
    Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 265: Sebastian Münster, Cosmographei, Basel: Sebastian Henricpetri, 1558.
    Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 271: Abraham Ortelius, Epitome Theatri Orteliani, Antwerp: Johann Baptist Vrients, 1601.
    Swann
    Maps & Atlases, Natural History & Color Plate Books
    December 9, 2025
    Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 283: Joris van Spilbergen, Speculum Orientalis Occidentalisque Indiae, Leiden: Nicolaus van Geelkercken for Jodocus Hondius, 1619.
    Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 285: Levinus Hulsius, Achtzehender Theil der Newen Welt, 14 engraved folding maps, Frankfurt: Johann Frederick Weiss, 1623.
    Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 341: John James Audubon, Carolina Parrot, Plate 26, London, 1827.