Brunk Auctions: Fall Modern | Contemporary | Design
Auction Reports
| Auction Name | Fall Modern | Contemporary | Design | Total Sales (USD) | 72,288.00 |
| Auction Date | October 16, 2025 - October 16, 2025 | Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) | 51,400.00 |
| Sale Number | #18258 | High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) | 80,600.00 |
| Total Lots | 60 | ||
| Sold Lots | 52.0 | Low Estimate of All Lots (USD) | 56,200.00 |
| % of Lots Sold | 86.67% | High Estimate of All Lots (USD) | 88,000.00 |
| Unsold Lots | 8 | Total Sales as a % of High Est. | 82.15% |
Top twenty-five by sale price
| Lot Number | Author Name | Book Title | Year Published | Estimate | Actual Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 553 | Alex Katz | Swamp Maple I |
1970 | USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | USD 14,080.00 |
| 523 | Ellsworth Kelly | Two Yellows |
1973-75 | USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 | USD 6,400.00 |
| 524 | Sol Lewitt | Fifteen Equal Arcs from the Midpoint of the Bottom, with All One-, Two-, Three- and Four- Part Combinations of Four Colors |
1990 | USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 | USD 4,800.00 |
| 557 | Henry Moore, Animals in the Zoo Portfolio | Edition 30/65, complete set of ten, with the three additional etchings printed on the title page and two text pages |
1980-1981 | USD 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 | USD 4,160.00 |
| 514 | Joan Miro | Le sourire aux ailes flamboyantes |
1954 | USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | USD 3,584.00 |
| 547 | Jacob Lawrence | The March, from the series The Life of Toussaint L'Ouverture, |
1995 | USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 | USD 3,328.00 |
| 549 | Hughie Lee-Smith | Untitled (Man On Wall) |
circa 1969 | USD 1,000.00 - 2,000.00 | USD 3,328.00 |
| 528 | Sol Lewitt | Bands of Lines in Three Directions (SL No.1977.07) |
1977 | USD 1,000.00 - 2,000.00 | USD 2,048.00 |
| 555 | Alex Katz | Camp, from the Carnegie Hall 100th Anniversary Portfolio, edition 50/60 |
1990 | USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | USD 2,048.00 |
| 526 | Ellsworth Kelly | Black Curve |
1970-72 | USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | USD 1,920.00 |
| 527 | Jennifer Losch Bartlett | Homan-ji, Series I |
1993 | USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 | USD 1,920.00 |
| 744 | Richard Anuskiewicz | Reflections VI - Deep Blue |
1979 | USD 2,500.00 - 3,500.00 | USD 1,664.00 |
| 687 | Bernard Fuchs Original Illustration | Woman under light, #6 chapter 5 illustration for Robert Penn Warren, All the King's Men, The Franklin Library, publisher |
1976 | USD 500.00 - 700.00 | USD 1,536.00 |
| 586 | Jim Dine | Big Red Wrench in Landscape, from Homage a Picasso |
1973 | USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 | USD 1,280.00 |
| 769 | Leonetto Cappiello, Liqueur Devil Poster | Leonetto Cappiello, Liqueur Devil Poster (French, 1875-1942)B: Maurin Quina, Le Puy |
1906 | USD 700.00 - 900.00 | USD 1,280.00 |
| 506 | Georges Braque | Phaeton, Char 1, edition 61/75 |
1945 | USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | USD 1,152.00 |
| 625 | Pierre Alechinsky | Probleme demographique |
1969 | USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 | USD 1,152.00 |
| 518 | Alexander Calder, Three Lithographs | Red Sun |
1968 | USD 300.00 - 500.00 | USD 1,088.00 |
| 507 | Georges Braque | Helios V, edition 36/75 |
1948 | USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | USD 1,024.00 |
| 522 | Sol Lewitt | Lines and color, straight, not-straight and broken lines using all combinations of black, white, yellow, red and blue for lines and intervals |
1977 | USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | USD 832.00 |
| 743 | Salvador Dali | Neptune (Poseidon) |
1965 | USD 1,000.00 - 2,000.00 | USD 768.00 |
| 761 | Two After Joan Miro and One After Marc Chagall | All open edition color lithographs: Ceramiques, from Ceramiques de Miro et Artigas |
1974 | USD 300.00 - 500.00 | USD 768.00 |
| 521 | Sol Lewitt | All Combinations of Red, Yellow & Blue Straight, Not-Straight & Broken Lines on Red, Yellow and Blue (SL 1976.03) |
1976 | USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | USD 704.00 |
| 529 | Sol Lewitt | Untitled, from the Kinderstern Portfolio (SL 1989.09) |
1984 | USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 | USD 704.00 |
| 606 | Robert H. Colescott | Fried Chicken and Fantasy |
1989 | USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | USD 704.00 |
![<b>Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4:</b> ROALD AMUNDSEN: «Sydpolen» [ The South Pole] 1912. First edition in jackets and publisher's slip case.](https://ae-files.s3.amazonaws.com/AdvertisementPhotos/0a99416d-9c0f-4fa3-afdd-7532ca8a2b2c.jpg "<b>Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4:</b> ROALD AMUNDSEN: «Sydpolen» [ The South Pole] 1912. First edition in jackets and publisher's slip case.")
![<b>Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4:</b> AMUNDSEN & NANSEN: «Fram over Polhavet» [Farthest North] 1897. AMUNDSEN's COPY!](https://ae-files.s3.amazonaws.com/AdvertisementPhotos/a077b4a5-0477-4c47-9847-0158cf045843.jpg "<b>Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4:</b> AMUNDSEN & NANSEN: «Fram over Polhavet» [Farthest North] 1897. AMUNDSEN's COPY!")
![<b>Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4:</b> ERNEST SHACKLETON [ed.]: «Aurora Australis» 1908. First edition. The NORWAY COPY.](https://ae-files.s3.amazonaws.com/AdvertisementPhotos/6363a735-e622-4d0a-852e-07cef58eccbe.jpg "<b>Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4:</b> ERNEST SHACKLETON [ed.]: «Aurora Australis» 1908. First edition. The NORWAY COPY.")
![<b>Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4:</b> SHACKLETON, BERNACCHI, CHERRY-GARRARD [ed.]: «The South Polar Times» I-III, 1902-1911.](https://ae-files.s3.amazonaws.com/AdvertisementPhotos/3ee16d5b-a2ec-4c03-aeb6-aa3fcfec3a5e.jpg "<b>Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4:</b> SHACKLETON, BERNACCHI, CHERRY-GARRARD [ed.]: «The South Polar Times» I-III, 1902-1911.")
![<b>Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4:</b> [WILLEM BARENTSZ & HENRY HUDSON] - SAEGHMAN: «Verhael van de vier eerste schip-vaerden […]», 1663.](https://ae-files.s3.amazonaws.com/AdvertisementPhotos/d5f50485-7faa-423f-af0c-803b964dd2ba.jpg "<b>Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4:</b> [WILLEM BARENTSZ & HENRY HUDSON] - SAEGHMAN: «Verhael van de vier eerste schip-vaerden […]», 1663.")
![<b>Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4:</b> TERRA NOVA EXPEDITION | LIEUTENANT HENRY ROBERTSON BOWERS: «At the South Pole.», Gelatin Silver Print. [10¾ x 15in. (27.2 x 38.1cm.) ].](https://ae-files.s3.amazonaws.com/AdvertisementPhotos/fb024365-7d7a-4510-9859-9d26b5c266cf.jpg "<b>Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4:</b> TERRA NOVA EXPEDITION | LIEUTENANT HENRY ROBERTSON BOWERS: «At the South Pole.», Gelatin Silver Print. [10¾ x 15in. (27.2 x 38.1cm.) ].")
![<b>Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4:</b> PAUL GAIMARD: «Voyage de la Commision scientific du Nord, en Scandinavie, […]», c. 1842-46. ONLY HAND COLOURED COPY KNOWN WITH TWO ORIGINAL PAINTINGS BY BIARD.](https://ae-files.s3.amazonaws.com/AdvertisementPhotos/a7c0eda0-9d8b-43ac-a504-58923308d5a4.jpg "<b>Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4:</b> PAUL GAIMARD: «Voyage de la Commision scientific du Nord, en Scandinavie, […]», c. 1842-46. ONLY HAND COLOURED COPY KNOWN WITH TWO ORIGINAL PAINTINGS BY BIARD.")
![<b>Sotheby’s, Dec. 11:</b> Darwin and Wallace. On the Tendency of Species to form Varieties..., [in:] <i>Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society,</i> Vol. III, No. 9., 1858, Darwin announces the theory of natural selection. £100,000 to £150,000.](https://ae-files.s3.amazonaws.com/AdvertisementPhotos/00d5fd41-2542-4a80-b119-4886d4b9925f.png "<b>Sotheby’s, Dec. 11:</b> Darwin and Wallace. On the Tendency of Species to form Varieties..., [in:] <i>Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society,</i> Vol. III, No. 9., 1858, Darwin announces the theory of natural selection. £100,000 to £150,000.")
