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Rago Arts and Auctions

Auction Info

Auction Name
Photographic Masterworks from an Important Private Collection
Auction Date
12/11/2025 - 12/11/2025
Sale Number
#121125a
Total Lots
48
Sold Lots
46.0
Lots Sold
95.83%
Unsold Lots
2
Total Sales (USD)
1,149,970.00
Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD)
961,000.00
High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD)
1,363,000.00
Low Estimate of All Lots (USD)
1,076,000.00
High Estimate of All Lots (USD)
1,533,000.00
Total Sales as a % of High Est.
75.01%

Top twenty five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
104 Lee Friedlander b.1934

The Little Screens

 1961-70 / printed later USD 250,000.00 - 350,000.00 USD 228,600.00
125 Felix Gonzalez-Torres 1957--1996

"Untitled"

 1988 USD 120,000.00 - 180,000.00 USD 158,400.00
119 Bernd and Hilla Becher

Blast Furnaces (A sequence of 9)

 1963-70 / printed 1999 USD 70,000.00 - 90,000.00 USD 114,300.00
109 William Eggleston b.1939

Untitled (Memphis)

 1971 / printed 1999 USD 150,000.00 - 200,000.00 USD 107,950.00
110 Ana Mendieta 1948--1985

Untitled (Body Tracks)

 1974 USD 30,000.00 - 50,000.00 USD 82,550.00
115 Nan Goldin b.1953

Greer and Robert in the Bed, NYC

 1982 USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 USD 42,240.00
116 Sandy Skoglund b.1946

Revenge of the Goldfish

 1981 USD 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 USD 27,940.00
124 Hiroshi Sugimoto b.1948

Union City Drive-In, Union City

 1993 USD 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 USD 25,400.00
128 Edward Weston 1886--1958

Nude

 1934 / printed c.1953 USD 25,000.00 - 35,000.00 USD 22,860.00
127 Frantisek Drtikol 1883--1961

Composition (Nude with Circles)

 1928 USD 30,000.00 - 50,000.00 USD 21,590.00
117 Thomas Demand b.1964

Constellation (Paris Edition)

 2000 USD 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 USD 20,320.00
123 Hiroshi Sugimoto b.1948

Cabot Street Cinema, Massachusetts

 1979 USD 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 USD 20,320.00
134 Erwin Olaf b.1959

Grief, Caroline

 2007 USD 7,000.00 - 9,000.00 USD 17,780.00
122 Hiroshi Sugimoto b.1948

Proctors Theater, New York

 1990 USD 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 USD 16,510.00
126 Charles Sheeler 1883--1965

Escape

 1950 USD 7,000.00 - 9,000.00 USD 16,510.00
120 Hiroshi Sugimoto b.1948

Palms, Michigan

 1980 USD 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 USD 16,510.00
142 Julius Shulman 1910--2009

Case Study House #22 (Two Girls), Los Angeles, California (Pierre Koenig)

 1968 / printed later USD 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 USD 15,875.00
102 Henri Cartier-Bresson 1908--2004

Rue Mouffetard, Paris, 1952

 1952 / printed c.1980 USD 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 USD 15,240.00
129 Paul Outerbridge 1896--1958

Wine Glasses

 1924 USD 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 USD 13,970.00
132 Erwin Olaf b.1959

The Ice Cream Parlour (from the Rain series)

 2003 USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 12,700.00
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  • ALDE, Apr. 8: GUEVARA (ANTONIO DE). Histoire de Marc-Aurèle, Empereur Romain, vray miroir et horloge des Princes. Paris, Pierre et Galliot du Pré, frères, 1565. €3,000 to €4,000.
    ALDE, Apr. 8: HEURES DE LA VIERGE. Horæ in laudem beatissimæ virginis Mariæ ad usum Romanum. Paris, Charles L'Angelier, 1556. €4,000 to €5,000.
    ALDE, Apr. 8: MONTAIGNE (MICHEL DE). Les Essais. Édition nouvelle, trouvée après le deceds de l'autheur… Paris, Abel L'Angelier, 1595. €6,000 to €8,000.
    ALDE, Apr. 8: [ROJAS (FERNANDO DE)]. Celestina, tragicomedia di Calisto et Melibea, tradotta de lingua castigliana in italiano idioma… Venise, 1531. €2,000 to €3,000.
    ALDE, Apr. 8: CAMÕES (LUÍS DE). Os Lusiadas. Lisbonne, Pedro Crasbeeck, 1613. €2,000 to €3,000.
    ALDE, Apr. 8: CERVANTES (MIGUEL DE). El Ingenioso hidalgo Don Quixote de la Mancha. Bruxelles, Roger Velpius & Huberto Antonio, 1611. €6,000 to €8,000.
    ALDE, Apr. 8: LA FONTAINE (JEAN DE). Fables choisies, mises en vers. Paris, Denys Thierry et Claude Barbin, 1678-1694. €6,000 to €8,000.
    ALDE, Apr. 8: CERVANTES (MIGUEL DE). El Ingenioso hidalgo Don Quixote de la Mancha. Madrid, Joaquin Ibarra, 1780. €3,000 to €4,000.
    ALDE, Apr. 8: DIDEROT (DENIS) ET JEAN LE ROND D'ALEMBERT. Encyclopédie, ou dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers. Paris, 1751-1765. €15,000 to €20,000.
    ALDE, Apr. 8: [LIVRE TISSÉ]. LAMARTINE (Alphonse de). Les Laboureurs. Poème tiré de Jocelyn… Lyon, J. A. Henry, 1883. €8,000 to €10,000.
    ALDE, Apr. 8: [LIVRE TISSÉ]. Livre de prières tissé d'après les enluminures des manuscrits du XIVe au XVIe siècle. Lyon, [A. Roux], 1886. €5,000 to €6,000.
  • Sotheby’s
    Books, Manuscripts & Objects from Three Important Collections
    Open for Bidding 2-17 April
    Sotheby’s, Apr. 2-17: [Guillaume de Lorris and Jean de Meun]. Le Roman de la Rose, [Geneva or Lyons, c.1481], first printed edition of the most important medieval French vernacular poem. £200,000 to £300,000.
    Sotheby’s, Apr. 2-17: Castiglione. Il libro del cortegiano. [Venice], April 1528, first edition, in a magnificent binding by Jean Picard for Jean Grolier. £100,000 to £150,000.
    Sotheby’s, Apr. 2-17: Jacobus de Cessolis. Schachzabelbuch, Strasbourg, 1483, von der Lasa copy. £50,000 to £70,000.
    Sotheby’s, Apr. 2-17: World Championship, 1972. A collection of 84 press photographs of the famed match between Spassky and Fischer. £2,000 to £3,000.
    Sotheby’s, Apr. 2-17: Ben Franklin. Autograph letter signed, to Lord Shelburne, British Prime Minister, during peace negotiations, November 1782. £15,000 to £20,000.