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Giquello: 20th Century Art

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Auction Name 20th Century Art Total Sales (EUR) 32,309.00
Auction Date November 28, 2025 - November 28, 2025 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR) 19,920.00
Sale Number #171655 High Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR) 30,450.00
Total Lots 172
Sold Lots 160.0 Low Estimate of All Lots (EUR) 22,220.00
% of Lots Sold 93.02% High Estimate of All Lots (EUR) 33,920.00
Unsold Lots 12 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 95.25%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
209 With red Leica M4-P case, black Leitz Leica M4-P camera no.

1 533 246 (attributed 1980, case lining missing) with Leitz Canada Summicron 2/35 mm lens no.

EUR 700.00 - 1,000.00 EUR 1,560.00
206 Leitz camera, black Leica M5 body no.

1 357 985 (1973) with Leitz Wetzlar Summicron 2/50 mm lens no.

EUR 500.00 - 800.00 EUR 1,105.00
211 Leitz Leica M3 camera no.

1 158 726 (1966, speeds to be reviewed) with Leitz Wetzlar Elmar 4/135 mm lens no.

EUR 500.00 - 800.00 EUR 910.00
199 Boris LIPNITZKI (1887-1971)

Josephine Baker in her dressing room at the Casino de Paris, circa 1930

circa 1930 EUR 200.00 - 300.00 EUR 533.00
193 Banque de l'Union Parisienne, Construction of the building on Boulevard Haussmann

Bound album, black and green leather, collecting 89 silver prints by Chevojon, J.

EUR 400.00 - 600.00 EUR 520.00
195 Raoul HAUSMANN (1886-1971)

House near Cala Llonga, Santa Eulalia del Rio, Ibiza, 1935

1935 EUR 200.00 - 300.00 EUR 520.00
87 [CESAR]

Collection of works about Cesar (1921-1998)

EUR 200.00 - 250.00 EUR 506.00
146 [NOLL Alexandre] JEAN-ELIE (Olivier), PASSEBON (Jean).

Alexandre Noll,

1999 EUR 400.00 - 600.00 EUR 506.00
201 Andre VILLERS (1930-2016)

l Pablo Picasso's Eyes, Cannes 1955

1955 EUR 400.00 - 600.00 EUR 494.00
163 [PROUVE Jean]

CIMT Jean Prouve, circa 1960.

EUR 300.00 - 500.00 EUR 480.00
160 [PONTI Gio] PONTI (Lisa Licitra).

Gio Ponti, The Complete Work, 1923-1978,

1990 EUR 100.00 - 150.00 EUR 442.00
132 [LUMINAIRE] TEISSONNIERE (Didier).

La lampe Gras,

2008 EUR 200.00 - 300.00 EUR 417.00
116 [LE CORBUSIER]

Le Corbusier.

1935 EUR 150.00 - 200.00 EUR 404.00
162 [PROUVE Jean]

CIMT Jean Prouve, circa 1960.

EUR 300.00 - 500.00 EUR 404.00
224 Sonia DELAUNAY, after

Composition aux triangles

EUR 50.00 - 100.00 EUR 390.00
127 [LE CORBUSIER]

La Cite Radieuse, housing unit.

EUR 200.00 - 300.00 EUR 379.00
171 (ROYERE Jean] Jean Royere.

Galerie Jacques Lacoste exhibition catalog, May 25 - July 2, 1999.

1999 EUR 200.00 - 300.00 EUR 379.00
381 [PRIMITIVE ARTS]

Set of 15 books on primitive arts:

EUR 100.00 - 200.00 EUR 379.00
384 [PRIMITIVE ARTS]

Set of 15 books on the primitive arts:

EUR 100.00 - 200.00 EUR 379.00
220 [TOYEN]

Invitation card to the Toyen exhibition at the Galerie "A l'etoile scellee", 11, rue du Pre-aux-Clercs, Paris VIIe arrondissement, until May 30, 1953.

1953 EUR 30.00 - 50.00 EUR 364.00
78 [ABSTRAIT ART] PLEYNET (Marcelin), RAGON (Michel).

L'art abstrait.

EUR 300.00 - 500.00 EUR 354.00
145 [MOUILLE Serge] PRALUS (Pierre Emile).

Serge Mouille, un classique francais/ A French Classic, ed.

2006 EUR 200.00 - 300.00 EUR 354.00
165 [PROUVE Jean]

Set of four books on Jean Prouve (1901-1984):

EUR 80.00 - 120.00 EUR 354.00
84 [BRETON Andre]

Complete boxed set of 8 catalogs from the Andre Breton sale at 42, rue Fontaine, by the Calmels and Cohen firm from April 7 to 17, 2003.

EUR 80.00 - 120.00 EUR 329.00
97 [DELAUNAY Robert and Sonia]

Collection of works about Robert (1885-1941) and Sonia (1885-1979) Delaunay

EUR 100.00 - 150.00 EUR 329.00
  • Dominic Winter
    Books, Maps, Documents & Autographs
    Ornithology, Music, Bookplates
    28th January 2026
    Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 26. Company School. An album of 85 Indian mica paintings, Madras, c. 1852. £700-1,000
    Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 28. Ross & Hooker. Notes on the Botany of the Antarctic Voyage, 1st edition, 1843. £4,000-6,000
    Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 44. Gould (John). The Birds of Great Britain, 5 volumes, 1st edition, 1862-73. £30,000-40,000
    Dominic Winter
    Books, Maps, Documents & Autographs
    Ornithology, Music, Bookplates
    28th January 2026
    Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 72. Edwards (George). A Natural History of Uncommon Birds… [and] Gleanings of Natural History, 7 volumes, 1st edition, 1743-64. £7,000-10,000
    Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 87. Walcott (Charles D. et al.). Geologic Atlas of the United States, 227-volume set, U.S. Geological Survey, 1894-1945. £500-800
    Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 236. A New Dictionary of the Terms Ancient and Modern of the Canting Crew…, By B. E. Gent., 1st edition, [1699]. £3,000-4,000
    Dominic Winter
    Books, Maps, Documents & Autographs
    Ornithology, Music, Bookplates
    28th January 2026
    Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 245. Frost Fair Broadside. Upon the Frost in the Year 1739-40, Printed on the Ice upon the Thames at Queen-Hithe, 1739/40. £1,500-2,000
    Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 270. Micheli (Antonino di). La Nuova Chitarra di Regole…, 1st edition, Palermo, 1680. £10,000-15,000
    Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 280. Elgar (Edward). Concerto for Violin and Orchestra, [1910], signed presentation copy. £500-800
    Dominic Winter
    Books, Maps, Documents & Autographs
    Ornithology, Music, Bookplates
    28th January 2026
    Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 282 - Griffes (Charles). Autograph Manuscript Score for Overture to Hänsel und Gretel, c. 1910. £2,000-3,000
    Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 304. Churchill (Winston). A terracotta maquette of Churchill by Oscar Nemon, c. 1955. £1,500-2,000
    Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 364 - Russian Imperial Archaeological Commission. Mecheti Samarkanda..., Fascicule I Gour-Emir, St. Petersburg, 1905. £2,000-3,000
  • Sotheby’s
    Fine Manuscript and Printed Americana
    27 January 2026
    Sotheby’s, Jan. 27: An extraordinary pair of books from George Washington’s field library, marking the conjunction of Robert Rogers, George Washington, and Henry Knox. $1,200,000 to $1,800,000.
    Sotheby’s, Jan. 27: An extraordinary letter marking the conjunction of George Washington, the Marquis de Lafayette, and Benjamin Franklin. $1,000,000 to $1,500,000.
    Sotheby’s, Jan. 27: Virginia House of Delegates. The genesis of the Declaration of Independence and the Bill of Rights. $350,000 to $500,000.
    Sotheby’s
    Fine Manuscript and Printed Americana
    27 January 2026
    Sotheby’s, Jan. 27: (Gettysburg). “Genl. Doubleday has taken charge of the battle”: Autograph witness to the first day of the Battle of Gettysburg, illustrated by fourteen maps and plans. $200,000 to $300,000.
    Sotheby’s, Jan. 27: President Lincoln thanks a schoolboy on behalf of "all the children of the nation for his efforts to ensure "that this war shall be successful, and the Union be maintained and perpetuated." $200,000 to $300,000.
    Sotheby’s, Jan. 27: [World War II]. An archive of maps and files documenting the allied campaign in Europe, from the early stages of planning for D-Day and Operation Overlord, to Germany’s surrender. $200,000 to $300,000.
  • Forum Auctions
    Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    29th January 2026
    Forum, Jan. 29: Plato. [Apanta ta tou Platonos. Omnia Platonis opera], 2 parts in 2 vol., editio princeps of Plato's works in the original Greek, Venice, House of Aldus, 1513. £8,000-12,000
    Forum, Jan. 29: Book of Hours, Use of Rome, In Latin, illuminated manuscript on vellum, [Southern Netherlands (probably Bruges), c.1460]. £6,000-8,000
    Forum, Jan. 29: Correspondence and documents by or addressed to the first four Viscounts Molesworth and members of their families, letters and manuscripts, 1690-1783. £10,000-15,000
    Forum Auctions
    Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    29th January 2026
    Forum, Jan. 29: Shakespeare (William). The Dramatic Works, 9 vol., John and Josiah Boydell, 1802. £5,000-7,000
    Forum, Jan. 29: Joyce (James). Ulysses, first edition, one of 750 copies on handmade paper, Paris, Shakespeare and Company, 1922 £8,000-12,000
    Forum, Jan. 29: Powell (Anthony). [A Dance to the Music of Time], 12 vol., first editions, each with a signed presentation inscription from the author to Osbert Lancaster, 1951-75. £6,000-8,000
    Forum Auctions
    Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    29th January 2026
    Forum, Jan. 29: Chaucer (Geoffrey). Troilus and Criseyde, one of 225 copies on handmade paper, wood-engravings by Eric Gill, Waltham St.Lawrence, 1927. £3,000-4,000
    Forum, Jan. 29: Borges (Jorge Luis). Luna de Enfrente, first edition, one of 300 copies, presentation copy signed by the author to Leopoldo Marechal, Buenos Aires, Editorial Proa, 1925. £3,000-4,000
    Forum, Jan. 29: Nolli (Giovanni Battista). Nuova Pianta di Roma, Rome, 1748. £6,000-8,000
    Forum Auctions
    Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    29th January 2026
    Forum, Jan. 29: Roberts (David). The Holy Land, Syria, Idumea, Arabia, Egypt, & Nubia, 3 vol., first edition, 1842-49. £15,000-20,000
    Forum, Jan. 29: Blacker (William). Catechism of Fly Making, Angling and Dyeing, Published by the author, 1843. £3,000-4,000
    Forum, Jan. 29: Herschel (Sir John F. W.) Collection of 69 offprints, extracts and separate publications by Herschel, bound for his son, William James Herschel, 3 vol., [1813-50]. £15,000-20,000