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Rago Arts and Auctions: Photographs

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Auction Name Photographs Total Sales (USD) 446,641.00
Auction Date November 04, 2025 - November 04, 2025 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 334,500.00
Sale Number #110425 High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 506,000.00
Total Lots 194
Sold Lots 170.0 Low Estimate of All Lots (USD) 429,200.00
% of Lots Sold 87.63% High Estimate of All Lots (USD) 640,800.00
Unsold Lots 24 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 69.70%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
182 Michal Rovner b.1957

Crossing

 2012 USD 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 USD 35,560.00
121 Chuck Close 1940--2021

Fuji Mums

 1988 USD 30,000.00 - 50,000.00 USD 25,400.00
159 Tseng Kwong Chi 1950--1990

Untitled (Haring Subway)

 c.1983 USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 10,795.00
160 Tseng Kwong Chi 1950--1990

Untitled (Haring Subway)

 c.1983 USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 10,795.00
131 William Eggleston b.1939

Untitled (Kentucky)

 1983/printed 1999 USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 8,580.00
133 Jeff Brouws b.1955

Freshly Painted Houses

 1991/printed 2004 USD 6,000.00 - 9,000.00 USD 8,255.00
140 Kwame Brathwaite 1938--2023

Untitled (Grandassas in Car)

 c.1968/printed 2021 USD 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 USD 8,255.00
141 Dawoud Bey b.1953

Nikki and Manting (diptych)

 1992 USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 8,255.00
251 Ruth Orkin 1921--1985

American Girl in Italy, Florence

 1951/printed 1980 USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 7,920.00
161 George Dureau 1930--2014

Wing Ding at the Mantle

 1978 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 7,620.00
259 Ilse Bing 1899--1998

Puddle, Rue de Valois, Paris

 1932 USD 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 USD 7,620.00
123 Vik Muniz b.1961

Ecstasy of Saint Teresa, after Bernini (from the Pictures of Chocolate series)

 2015 USD 6,000.00 - 9,000.00 USD 6,350.00
215 Harry Callahan 1912--1999

Chicago

 c.1947 USD 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 USD 6,350.00
228 George A. Tice 1938--2025

Petit's Mobil Station, Cherry Hill, New Jersey

 1974/printed 1989 USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 6,350.00
130 William Eggleston b.1939

Memphis, Tennessee (Red Cart)

 1996/printed 2002 USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 6,096.00
126 David LaChapelle b.1963

Devotion

 2001 USD 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 USD 5,940.00
214 Ansel Adams 1902--1984

Winter - Forest Detail, Yosemite Valley

 c.1949/printed c.1958-60 USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 5,544.00
170 Horst P. Horst 1906--1999

Electric Beauty, Paris, 1939

 1939/printed later USD 2,500.00 - 3,500.00 USD 5,280.00
207 Joel-Peter Witkin b.1939

Canova's Venus Shaun Ariane Montiel

 1982 USD 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 USD 5,080.00
174 Arno Rafael Minkkinen b.1945

Foster's Pond

 1989 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 5,016.00
162 George Dureau 1930--2014

Untitled (from The Belligerents series)

 1991 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 4,826.00
202 Donald Sultan b.1951

Smoke Rings (Medium)

 2001 USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 4,826.00
172 Horst P. Horst 1906--1999

Lisa on Silk

 1940/printed later USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 4,620.00
184 Cindy Sherman b.1954

Untitled (from the For Beuys portfolio)

 1987 USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 USD 4,445.00
225 T. Lux Feininger 1910--2011

Kiefern am Meisterhaus Feininger, Sicht nach oben, in starker Verkurzung (Bauhausbaum)

 c.1927-28 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 4,445.00
  • <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.
  • <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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