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Bertolami Fine Art : 19th CENTURY, MODERN AND CONTEMPORARY ART. 1st Part - From the 2nd half of the XIX Century to 1940' With German Expressionist Prints and Drawings

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Auction Name	19th CENTURY, MODERN AND CONTEMPORARY ART. 1st Part - From the 2nd half of the XIX Century to 1940' With German Expressionist Prints and Drawings	Total Sales (EUR)	21,858.80
Auction Date	December 04, 2025 - December 04, 2025	Low Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR)	16,900.00
Sale Number	#359	High Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR)	29,400.00
Total Lots	37
Sold Lots	17.0	Low Estimate of All Lots (EUR)	43,700.00
% of Lots Sold	45.95%	High Estimate of All Lots (EUR)	70,800.00
Unsold Lots	20	Total Sales as a % of High Est.	30.87%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
65	Giorgio Morandi	La strada bianca		EUR 4,000.00 - 7,000.00	EUR 7,680.00
66	Giorgio Morandi	Fiori in un cornetto su fondo ovoidale		EUR 4,000.00 - 7,000.00	EUR 3,584.00
67	Giorgio Morandi	Campo di tennis ai giardini Margherita a Bologna	1923	EUR 3,000.00 - 6,000.00	EUR 2,432.00
117	Jean Fautrier	Les Otages	1943	EUR 300.00 - 500.00	EUR 1,408.00
79	Otto (1874) Mueller	Zwei Madchen im Innenraum	1925	EUR 700.00 - 1,000.00	EUR 896.00
81	Kathe Kollwitz	Tod from the series Ein Weberaufstand	1893/97	EUR 200.00 - 300.00	EUR 832.00
116	Jean Fautrier	Otages	1943	EUR 300.00 - 500.00	EUR 793.60
118	Jean Fautrier	Les Otages	1943	EUR 300.00 - 500.00	EUR 704.00
89	Otto Dix	Illustration for Luther's Gospel according to Matthew	1960	EUR 800.00 - 1,200.00	EUR 640.00
119		Otages III	1943	EUR 300.00 - 500.00	EUR 614.40
82	Ernst Ludwig Kirchner	Alte und junge Frau	1921 ca.	EUR 600.00 - 800.00	EUR 537.60
88	Otto Dix	La Folle di Sainte-Marie-a-Py		EUR 1,000.00 - 2,000.00	EUR 537.60
111	Hans Bellmer	Les Marionnettes		EUR 400.00 - 600.00	EUR 332.80
110	Hans Bellmer	Untitled		EUR 400.00 - 600.00	EUR 307.20
80		Self-portrait with brush	1970	EUR 200.00 - 300.00	EUR 217.60
113	Hans Bellmer	La domande en mariage	1972	EUR 200.00 - 300.00	EUR 192.00
78	Theophile Alexandre Steinlen	War orphans	1915	EUR 200.00 - 300.00	EUR 150.00

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
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 286 - Walton (William, 1902-1983). Autograph manuscript full score for Belshazzar’s Feast, [1930-31]. £20,000-30,000

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.