Rago Arts and Auctions: Editions and Works on Paper, 121625, Chicago

Auction Details

Auction Report
Auction Date
December 16, 2025 - December 16, 2025
Page Size: 270 items in 11 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
200 Louise Nevelson 1899--1988

Celebration #3 (from the Celebration portfolio)

1979 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 1,397.00
201 Louise Nevelson 1899--1988

Untitled (Gold)

1973 USD 1,800.00 - 2,400.00 Not Sold
202 Louise Nevelson 1899--1988

Untitled (White)

1973 USD 1,800.00 - 2,400.00 Not Sold
203 Louise Nevelson 1899--1988

Dawnscape

1975 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 17,780.00
204 Louise Nevelson 1899--1988

Tonality I (from the Tonalities portfolio)

1981 USD 1,200.00 - 1,800.00 USD 1,524.00
205 Jasper Johns b.1930

Four Panels from Untitled 1972

1972 USD 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 Not Sold
206 Jasper Johns b.1930

Untitled

1977 USD 1,200.00 - 1,500.00 USD 2,032.00
207 After Jasper Johns

0 Through 9 sample portfolio

1968 USD 1,200.00 - 1,800.00 USD 1,143.00
208 Robert Motherwell 1915--1991

Red Open with White Line

1979 USD 7,000.00 - 9,000.00 USD 10,795.00
209 Robert Motherwell 1915--1991

Untitled (from the Basque suite)

1971 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 2,286.00
210 Robert Motherwell 1915--1991

Untitled (from the London Series I)

1971 USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 2,413.00
211 Robert Motherwell 1915--1991

Black Sun (from the Octavio Paz suite)

1988 USD 2,500.00 - 3,500.00 USD 3,556.00
212 Robert Motherwell 1915--1991

Poe's Abyss

1975 USD 1,200.00 - 1,800.00 Not Sold
213 Robert Motherwell 1915--1991

Architecture (from the Ulysses portfolio)

1988 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 1,016.00
214 Robert Motherwell 1915--1991

Chair

1971 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 Not Sold
215 Robert Motherwell 1915--1991

Communicants (from the Ulysses portfolio)

1988 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 1,207.00
216 Robert Motherwell 1915--1991

May Linen Suite #7

1990 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 889.00
217 Robert Motherwell 1915--1991

Soot-Black Stone, #2

1975 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 635.00
218 Robert Motherwell 1915--1991

Soot-Black Stone, #3

1975 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 635.00
219 Robert Motherwell 1915--1991

Soot-Black Stone, #4

1975 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 635.00
220 Robert Motherwell 1915--1991

Soot-Black Stone, #5

1975 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 1,016.00
221 Wayne Thiebaud 1920--2021

Steep Street

1989 USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 USD 9,525.00
222 Richard Diebenkorn 1922--1993

Four works

1992-93 USD 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 USD 8,890.00
223 Richard Diebenkorn 1922--1993

Eiffel Spade (from the Five Spades portfolio)

1982 USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 USD 3,810.00
224 William T. Wiley 1937--2021

Mr. Unnatural (State II)

1976 USD 700.00 - 900.00 USD 699.00
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