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Rago Arts and Auctions

Auction Info

Auction Name
Rago, Live Online: Prints Unlimited
Auction Date
12/05/2025 - 12/05/2025
Sale Number
#120525
Total Lots
210
Sold Lots
192.0
Lots Sold
91.43%
Unsold Lots
18
Total Sales (USD)
139,298.00
Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD)
128,750.00
High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD)
186,850.00
Low Estimate of All Lots (USD)
140,150.00
High Estimate of All Lots (USD)
203,650.00
Total Sales as a % of High Est.
68.40%

Top twenty five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
162 Dan Flavin 1933--1996

Four works from the Projects 1963-95 portfolio

 1963-95, 1996-97 USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 5,334.00
265 George Rodrigue 1944--2013

Round the Mulberry Bush

 2015 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 3,048.00
102 Josef Albers 1888--1976

White Lines Squares sample portfolio

 1967 USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 USD 2,794.00
287 Julian Stanczak 1928--2017

Solar

 1973 USD 500.00 - 700.00 USD 2,508.00
119 Charles Arnoldi b.1946

Venice #8

 1997 USD 500.00 - 700.00 USD 2,286.00
182 M.F. Husain 1913--2011

Untitled (Woman with Two Donkeys)

 1960 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 2,244.00
224 Yoshitomo Nara b.1959

WOW (Works on Whatever) Project beach towel

 2010 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 2,159.00
253 Ken Price 1935--2012

Volcano with Smoke

 2011 USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 2,159.00
176 Don Ed Hardy b.1945

Storm Dragon

 2001 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 2,032.00
247 Ken Price 1935--2012

Eruption and Lava Flow

 2011 USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 1,980.00
194 After Ellsworth Kelly

Ten Lithographs sample portfolio

 1970 USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 USD 1,778.00
185 After Jasper Johns

0 Through 9 sample portfolio; Gray Alphabets (two works)

 1968 USD 700.00 - 900.00 USD 1,651.00
133 John Buck b.1946

Heart Mountain Wyoming

 2000 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 1,584.00
175 Don Ed Hardy b.1945

Sea Dragon

 2001 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 1,584.00
267 James Rosenquist 1933--2017

Forehead II

 1968 USD 700.00 - 900.00 USD 1,524.00
306 Terry Winters b.1949

Cluster

 2001 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 1,524.00
174 Don Ed Hardy b.1945

Rosie; Valley Girl (two works)

 1998 USD 600.00 - 800.00 USD 1,452.00
203 After Roy Lichtenstein

Cathedrals and Haystacks sample portfolio

 1969 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 1,397.00
167 Wayne Gonzales b.1957

Gray White House (reversal); Green White House (two works)

 2003 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 1,397.00
125 Bernd and Hilla Becher

Pipe Detail: Coal Mine

 1990-91 USD 700.00 - 900.00 USD 1,397.00
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    Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: An Exceptionally Fine Copy of Austenís Emma: A Novel in Three Volumes. $40,000 - $60,000.
    Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Presentation Copy of Ernest Hemmingwayís A Farewell to Arms for Edward Titus of the Black Mankin Press. $30,000 - $50,000.
    Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Manuscript Signed Integrally for "The Songs of Pooh," by Alan Alexander. $30,000 - $50,000.
    Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Manuscript of "Three Fragments from Gˆtterd‰mmerung" by Richard Wagner. $30,000 - $50,000.
    Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Original Preliminary Artwork, for the First Edition of Snow Crash. $20,000 - $30,000.
    Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Letter Signed ("T.R. Malthus") to Economist Nassau Senior on Wealth, Labor and Adam Smith. $20,000 - $30,000.
    Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides Finely Bound by Michael Wilcox. $20,000 - $30,000.
    Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: First Edition of Lewis and Clark: Travels to the Source of the Missouri River and Across the American Continent to the Pacific Ocean. $8,000 - $12,000.
    Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Original Artwork for the First Edition of Neal Stephenson's Groundbreaking Novel Snow Crash. $100,000 - $150,000.
    Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: A Complete Set Signed Deluxe Editions of King's The Dark Tower Series by Stephen King. $8,000 - $12,000.
    Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Letter Signed ("John Adams") to James Le Ray de Chaumont During the Crucial Years of the Revolutionary War. $8,000 - $12,000.
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    Sotheby’s
    Book Week
    December 9-17, 2025
    Sotheby’s, Dec. 12: Hooke, Robert. Micrographia: or some Physiological Descriptions of Minute Bodies made by Magnifying Glasses. London: James Allestry for the Royal Society, 1667. $12,000 to $15,000.
    Sotheby’s, Dec. 12: Chappuzeau, Samuel. The history of jewels, first edition in English. London: T.N. for Hobart Kemp, 1671. $12,000 to $18,000.
    Sotheby’s, Dec. 12: Sowerby, James. Exotic Mineralogy, containing his most realistic mineral depictions, London: Benjamin Meredith, 1811, Arding and Merrett, 1817. $5,000 to $7,000.
  • <b><center>Heritage Auctions<br>Rare Books Signature Auction<br>December 15, 2025</center></b> <b>Heritage, Dec. 15:</b> John Donne. <i>Poems, By J. D. With Elegies on the Author's Death.</i> London: M[iles]. F[lesher]. for John Marriot, 1633. <b>Heritage, Dec. 15:</b> Edgar Rice Burroughs. <i>Tarzan of the Apes.</i> <b>Heritage, Dec. 15:</b> F. Scott Fitzgerald. <i>Tender is the Night. A Romance.</i> <b>Heritage, Dec. 15:</b> Bram Stoker. <i>Dracula.</i> Westminster: Archibald Constable & Co., 1897. <b>Heritage, Dec. 15:</b> Jerry Thomas. <i>How to Mix Drinks, or the Bon-Vivant's Companion, Containing Clear and Reliable Directions for Mixing All the Beverages Used in the United States…</i>
    Heritage Auctions
    Rare Books Signature Auction
    December 15, 2025
    Heritage, Dec. 15: John Donne. Poems, By J. D. With Elegies on the Author's Death. London: M[iles]. F[lesher]. for John Marriot, 1633.
    Heritage, Dec. 15: Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
    Heritage, Dec. 15: F. Scott Fitzgerald. Tender is the Night. A Romance.
    Heritage, Dec. 15: Bram Stoker. Dracula. Westminster: Archibald Constable & Co., 1897.
    Heritage, Dec. 15: Jerry Thomas. How to Mix Drinks, or the Bon-Vivant's Companion, Containing Clear and Reliable Directions for Mixing All the Beverages Used in the United States…
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