Auction Reports

Potter and Potter Auctions

Auction Info

Auction Name
Contemporary, Fine, Folk, and Outsider Art
Auction Date
12/03/2025 - 12/03/2025
Sale Number
#1225
Total Lots
187
Sold Lots
144.0
Lots Sold
77.01%
Unsold Lots
43
Total Sales (USD)
104,244.00
Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD)
75,950.00
High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD)
114,750.00
Low Estimate of All Lots (USD)
93,850.00
High Estimate of All Lots (USD)
143,850.00
Total Sales as a % of High Est.
72.47%

Top twenty five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
299 CURTIS, Edward Sheriff

The Rush Gatherer -- Kutenai.

1910 USD 7,000.00 - 9,000.00 USD 8,125.00
126 BOURGEOIS, Louise

Jitterbug.

1998 USD 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 USD 8,125.00
130 HODGKIN, Howard

David's Pool

 1985 USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 5,750.00
129 JOHNS, Jasper

Untitled

 1995 USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 5,000.00
232 OROZCO, Jose Clemente

Los Grabados de Orozco, portfolio

 1951 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 3,500.00
156 BAYER, Herbert

Birthday Party.

1970 USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 2,750.00
127 DELAUNAY, Sonia

Thunderbird

 1973 USD 1,000.00 - 2,000.00 USD 2,250.00
152 SAUL, Peter

I am Not a Wimp

 Circa 1995 USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 2,125.00
334

Four Manuscript Antiphonal Pages.

 Undated USD 200.00 - 300.00 USD 1,875.00
22 PICASSO, Pablo

Scene de Plage (Beach Scene)

 1956 USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 USD 1,875.00
335

[ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT]. Pair of Vellum Psalter leaves.

Circa 15th century USD 200.00 - 300.00 USD 1,875.00
153 SELIGMANN, Kurt

The Sphinx

 1944 USD 200.00 - 300.00 USD 1,875.00
169 CLOSE, Chuck

Lyle

 2000 USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 1,750.00
267 EAMES, Ray Bernice

Ray Eames Handwritten Letter.

1985 USD 500.00 - 1,000.00 USD 1,625.00
266

Company Poster and Mailing Materials.

N/A USD 500.00 - 1,000.00 USD 1,625.00
136 HOCKNEY, David

A Room Full of Straw

 1969 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 1,375.00
149 KLOSS, Gene

Clouds at Sunset.

1952 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 1,250.00
147 LOZOWICK, Louis

Steel Valley

 1936 USD 500.00 - 700.00 USD 1,187.50
275 SAVAGE, Karen

Silver Gelatin Print of a Dress

 Circa 20th century USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 1,125.00
236

Collection of Lesbian Erotic Prints. 26 Works and a Marilyn Monroe Golden Dreams.

Circa 1930 and 1950 USD 600.00 - 800.00 USD 1,062.50
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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.