Auction Reports

Dirk Soulis Auctions

Auction Info

Auction Name
20th Annual Winter Art Auction - Paintings, Prints, Modern, Western, Regionalists, and Fine Carpets
Auction Date
02/22/2026 - 02/22/2026
Sale Number
#467
Total Lots
87
Sold Lots
84.0
Lots Sold
96.55%
Unsold Lots
3
Total Sales (USD)
194,850.00
Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD)
113,100.00
High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD)
168,650.00
Low Estimate of All Lots (USD)
134,400.00
High Estimate of All Lots (USD)
198,150.00
Total Sales as a % of High Est.
98.33%

Top twenty five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
257 Fritz Scholder (1937-2005)

Self Portrait

2001 USD 40,000.00 - 60,000.00 USD 49,200.00
432 Thomas Hart Benton (1889-1975)

Wreck of the Ol' 97

1944 USD 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 USD 13,530.00
421 Thomas Hart Benton (1889-1975)

Ten Pound Hammer

1967 USD 7,000.00 - 9,000.00 USD 11,685.00
275 Gustave Baumann (1881-1971)

Cordova Plaza

1943 USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 8,610.00
439 Thomas Hart Benton (1889-1975)

Haystack

1938 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 4,920.00
232 Marc (Moishe Shagal) Chagall (1887-1985)

Femme de Cirque (Circus Woman)

1960 USD 5,000.00 - 8,000.00 USD 4,674.00
276 Charles Merrick 'Chili' Capps (Kansas, 1898-1981)

Mission at Trampas

1949 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 4,182.00
433 Thomas Hart Benton (1889-1975)

Shallow Creek

1939 USD 1,000.00 - 2,000.00 USD 3,936.00
282 Charles Merrick 'Chili' Capps (Kansas, 1898-1981)

Taos

1948 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 3,936.00
447 Thomas Hart Benton (Missouri, 1889-1975)

West Texas

1952 USD 2,500.00 - 3,500.00 USD 3,690.00
426 Thomas Hart Benton (1889-1975)

A Drink of Water

1937 USD 1,200.00 - 1,800.00 USD 3,690.00
456 Thomas Hart Benton (1889-1975)

Threshing

1941 USD 500.00 - 1,000.00 USD 3,444.00
435 Thomas Hart Benton (1889-1975)

Island Hay

1945 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 3,198.00
427 Thomas Hart Benton (1889-1975)

Lonesome Road

1938 USD 1,200.00 - 1,800.00 USD 2,952.00
437 Charles Merrick 'Chili' Capps (Kansas, 1898-1981)

Moonlit Mills

1933 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 2,952.00
455 Thomas Hart Benton (1889-1975)

New England Farm

1951 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 2,706.00
431 Thomas Hart Benton (1889-1975)

Homecoming Kaw Valley 1951

1951 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 2,706.00
285 Gene Kloss (1903-1996)

Midsummer Fiesta

1972 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 2,706.00
423 Jackson Lee Nesbitt (1913-2008)

Auction Barn

1989 USD 1,800.00 - 2,500.00 USD 2,706.00
436 Ellison Hoover (1888-1955)

Washington Arch

1930s USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 2,460.00

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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.