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Rago Arts and Auctions: Photographs Unlimited

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Auction Name Photographs Unlimited Total Sales (USD) 52,804.00
Auction Date November 22, 2024 - November 22, 2024 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 50,900.00
Sale Number #112224 High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 74,750.00
Total Lots 102
Sold Lots 83 Low Estimate of All Lots (USD) 65,200.00
% of Lots Sold 81.37% High Estimate of All Lots (USD) 95,950.00
Unsold Lots 19 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 55.03%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
134 Quisqueya Henriquez b.1966

Helado de agua de mar caribe

2002 USD 600.00 - 800.00 USD 6,550.00
122 Gregory Crewdson b.1962

Untitled (Ray of Light) (from the Twilight series)

2023 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 3,528.00
175 Mick Rock b.1948

David Bowie/Mick Ronson -- Lunch on Train to Aberdeen

1973 / printed later USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 3,276.00
164 Catherine Opie b.1961

Untitled Ice Houses (from the Exit Art: Two O O One portfolio)

2001 USD 500.00 - 700.00 USD 3,024.00
178 Aaron Siskind 1903--1991

Jalapa 20 1973 (Homage to Franz Kline)

1973 USD 700.00 - 900.00 USD 2,520.00
121 Gregory Crewdson b.1962

Untitled (Unreleased #4)

2003 / printed 2023 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 2,142.00
170 Josephine Pryde b.1967

Liver (World is Your ATM); Here Do Your Want To 2 (For Me) (two works)

2006, 2014 USD 700.00 - 900.00 USD 2,016.00
136 Jamie Isenstein b.1975

Magic Fingers

2003 USD 200.00 - 300.00 USD 1,890.00
167 Peter Piller b.1968

Twenty works from the Arrows 1 and Arrows 2 portfolios

2000 / printed 2006 USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 1,638.00
172 Eileen Quinlan b.1972

Smoke and Mirrors #25

2005 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 1,386.00
171 Josephine Pryde b.1967

I Love Picasso's Dove of Peace

2007 USD 500.00 - 700.00 USD 1,134.00
120 Larry Clark b.1943

Untitled (from The Perfect Childhood series)

1992 USD 500.00 - 700.00 USD 983.00
160 Jean-Luc Mylayne b.1946

No. 37-38, Aout 1982 (for Parkett 50/51)

1997 USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 945.00
162 Arnold Newman 1918--2006

Kurt Godel

1956 / printed later USD 600.00 - 800.00 USD 945.00
180 Aaron Siskind 1903--1991

New York 352

1978 USD 700.00 - 900.00 USD 819.00
118 Jay Chung & Q Takeki Maeda

Modus Tollens (diptych)

2003 USD 500.00 - 700.00 USD 786.00
128 Jaromir Funke 1896--1945

PHP Portfolio IV

1923-35 / printed 1995 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 693.00
200 James Welling b.1951

2/29II

1980 USD 500.00 - 700.00 USD 693.00
139 Robert Kinmont b.1937

26 Dead Animals

1967-70 / printed 2011 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 630.00
155 Mariko Mori b.1967

Portrait of Birth of a Star

1995 USD 500.00 - 700.00 USD 630.00
173 Eileen Quinlan b.1972

Smoke & Mirrors #27

2005 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 630.00
177 Laurie Simmons b.1949

Walking Cake

1989 / printed 1991 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 630.00
114 Hans Breder 1935--2017

Old Man's Creek (two works)

1971 / printed later USD 1,200.00 - 1,800.00 USD 590.00
117 Keith Carter b.1948

Striped Pants

1997 USD 500.00 - 700.00 USD 590.00
137 Mike Kelley 1954--2012

Toy Santa Claus

1993 USD 700.00 - 900.00 USD 567.00
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