Sothebys: Contemporary Day Auction, N12129, New York
Auction Details
- Auction Date
- May 15, 2026 - May 15, 2026
| Lot Number | Author Name | Book Title | Place Printed | Year Published | Estimate | Actual Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 221 | Candida Hofer (b. 1944) | Trinity College Library Dublin VII |
2004 | USD 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 | USD 21,760.00 | |
| 223 | Richard Diebenkorn (1922-1993) | Large Light Blue, from Eight Color Etchings |
1980 | USD 60,000.00 - 80,000.00 | USD 128,000.00 | |
| 313 | Cindy Sherman (b. 1954) | Untitled Film Still #16 |
1978 | USD 80,000.00 - 120,000.00 | USD 179,200.00 | |
| 339 | Cindy Sherman (b. 1954) | Untitled Film Still #17 |
1978, printed later | USD 250,000.00 - 350,000.00 | USD 423,000.00 | |
| 340 | Gerhard Richter (b. 1932) | Ema (Akt auf einer Treppe) |
1992 | USD 500,000.00 - 700,000.00 | USD 588,800.00 | |
| 343 | Roy Lichtenstein (1923-1997) | Water Lilies with Cloud |
1992 | USD 500,000.00 - 700,000.00 | USD 1,024,000.00 | |
| 358 | Helen Frankenthaler (1928-2011) | Madame Butterfly |
2000 | USD 300,000.00 - 500,000.00 | USD 512,000.00 | |
| 364 | Robert Rauschenberg (1925-2008) | Breakthrough I |
1964 | USD 50,000.00 - 70,000.00 | USD 38,400.00 | |
| 421 | Elizabeth Catlett (1915-2013) | Sharecropper |
1968-93 | USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | USD 15,360.00 | |
| 432 | Annette Lemieux (b. 1957) | Walking on Water |
1985 | USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 | USD 3,200.00 | |
| 433 | Barbara Bloom (1951-) | Headache |
1985-89 | USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | USD 1,024.00 | |
| 434 | Anne Collier (1970-) | Double Exposure |
2011 | USD 500.00 - 700.00 | USD 896.00 | |
| 505 | Keith Haring (1958-1990) | The Blueprint Drawings |
1990 | USD 300,000.00 - 500,000.00 | USD 486,400.00 | |
| 635 | Robert Mapplethorpe (1946-1989) | Self Portrait |
1982 | USD 50,000.00 - 70,000.00 | USD 51,200.00 | |
| 638 | Thomas Struth (1954-) | Musee d'Orsay I, Paris |
1989, printed 1990 | USD 70,000.00 - 100,000.00 | USD 35,840.00 | |
| 639 | Tracey Emin (1963-) | Good Smile Great Come |
2000 | USD 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 | USD 32,000.00 | |
| 640 | Cindy Sherman (1954-) | Untitled #220 |
1990 | USD 70,000.00 - 100,000.00 | USD 51,200.00 | |
| 648 | Ed Ruscha (1937-) | Five Views from the Panhandle |
1962, printed 2007 | USD 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 | USD 19,200.00 | |
| 663 | Andy Warhol (1928-1987) | Ads |
1985 | USD 2,000,000.00 - 3,000,000.00 | USD 2,926,000.00 | |
| 665 | Richard Prince (1949-) | Untitled (Four Women with Hats) |
1980 | USD 150,000.00 - 200,000.00 | USD 217,600.00 | |
| 676 | Keith Haring (1958-1990) | Andy Mouse |
1986 | USD 150,000.00 - 250,000.00 | USD 204,800.00 | |
| 680 | David Hockney (b. 1937) | The Arrival of Spring in Woldgate, East Yorkshire in 2011 (twenty eleven) - 15 March |
2011 | USD 120,000.00 - 180,000.00 | USD 217,600.00 | |
| 715 | Gregory Crewdson (b. 1962) | Untitled |
2003 | USD 40,000.00 - 60,000.00 | USD 83,200.00 | |
| 716 | Barkley L. Hendricks (1945-2017) | Gratz 2 Yale, New Haven, CT |
1971 | USD 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 | USD 10,240.00 | |
| 717 | Richard Prince (b. 1949) | Spiritual America IV |
2005 | USD 500,000.00 - 700,000.00 | USD 384,000.00 |
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Freeman’s
How History Unfolds on Paper: Important Americana from the Eric C. Caren Collection, Part X
June 30Freeman’s, June 30: [Queen Anne's War] Extraordinarily Large Manuscript Petition Signed by a Who's Who of Colonial New York Accomplished to Queen Anne. $8,000/12,000Freeman’s, June 30: [Mormonism] A Unique Manuscript Account of Joseph Smith's Final Words Offered to His Congregation, the Day Before his Violent Death, 1844. $8,000/12,000Freeman’s, June 30: [Baseball] [Mantle, Mickey] Mickey Mantle's First Cover: The Earliest Front-Page Newspaper Image of Mickey Mantle, "Something Good from Joplin". $8,000/12,000Freeman’s, June 30: [Baseball] A Striking Type 1 Press Photograph of Lou Gehrig's Hands. $8,000/12,000Freeman’s, June 30: [Declaration of Independence] One of the First Printed Announcements of American Independence, Subscriber Ebenezer Hazard's Copy, in the Exceedingly Rare Original Wrappers, 1776. $10,000/15,000Freeman’s
How History Unfolds on Paper: Important Americana from the Eric C. Caren Collection, Part X
June 30Freeman’s, June 30: [American Revolution] Born in the USA: First Day of Printing in the United States, July 4, 1776! $15,000/25,000Freeman’s, June 30: [War of 1812] "We Have Met the Enemy and They are Ours": The Critical Promotion of a Naval Hero, Oliver Hazard Perry is Appointed Master Commandant in the United States Navy, 1812. $40,000/60,000Freeman’s, June 30: [Star-Spangled Banner] Eyewitness Account of the Shelling of Fort McHenry in the War of 1812, in a Manuscript Logbook from the HMS Trave, Present at the Battles of Baltimore and New Orleans, 1814-16. $60,000/80,000Freeman’s, June 30: [American Revolution] Thomas Jefferson at the Birth of a New Nation: An Important Letter Carried by a Jewish Patriot Communicating the Definitive Treaty of Paris, January 16, 1784. $100,000/200,000Freeman’s, June 30: [Colonial America] [Plymouth Colony] Plymouth Colony Seeks a Royal Charter: A Rare and Important Plymouth Colony Document, 1690/91. $6,000/9,000 -
Sotheby’s
Selections from The Jay T. Snider Collection of Benjamin Franklin
Live Sale 24 JuneSotheby’s, June 24: (Benjamin Franklin). The founding—and funding—of the Pennsylvania Hospital. $150,000 to $200,000.Sotheby’s, June 24: Benjamin Franklin, "the Day of the Declaration of Independence is everywhere annually celebrated”. $80,000 to $120,000.Sotheby’s, June 24: Benjamin Franklin, “probably the most fundamental thing ever done in the field of electricity”. $75,000 to $125,000.Sotheby’s, June 24: Benjamin Franklin. One of Franklin's very earliest surviving letters. $40,000 to $60,000.Sotheby’s, June 24: Roger More and Benjamin Franklin. The only complete copy known of Poor Roger. $25,000 to $35,000.Sotheby’s, June 24: John Jerman. The American Almanack ... for 1731 — the only known copy in private hands. $25,000 to $35,000.