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Auction Name 20th Century Modern and Contemporary Fine Art Total Sales (USD) 213,722.50
Auction Date November 21, 2024 - November 21, 2024 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 112,700.00
Sale Number #112124 High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 190,300.00
Total Lots 95
Sold Lots 79 Low Estimate of All Lots (USD) 153,400.00
% of Lots Sold 83.16% High Estimate of All Lots (USD) 253,100.00
Unsold Lots 16 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 84.44%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
518 Francesca Woodman (1958-1981)

Untitled

1986 USD 4,000.00 - 8,000.00 USD 21,200.00
574 Lee Friedlander (b. 1934) After Ernest James Bellocq (1873-1949)

Untitled (Storyville Portraits)

c. 1912 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 5,962.50
591 Henri Matisse (1869-1945)

Figure lisant, fond mou charabieh

1929 USD 2,000.00 - 4,000.00 USD 5,962.50
500 Alexander Calder (1898-1976)

Soleil Rouge

USD 2,000.00 - 4,000.00 USD 5,631.25
562 Hamish Fulton (b. 1946)

Fourteen Works

1982-89 USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 5,631.25
593 Henri Matisse (1869-1945)

La Main

1929 USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 USD 5,631.25
596 Henri Matisse (1869-1945)

Nu assise

1929 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 5,631.25
653 O. Winston Link (1914-2001)

Train No.17, The Birmingham Special, Gets a Highball (Rural Retreat,

1957 USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 5,300.00
590 Henri Matisse (1869-1945)

Nu couche

1929 USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 USD 4,968.75
568 Robert Mangold (b. 1937)

A Book of Silk Screen Prints - Multiple Panel Paintings 1973-1976

1988 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 4,637.50
577 Peter Rose Pulham (1910-1956)

Eugene Berman; and Andre Breton

c. 1930 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 4,637.50
600 Henri Matisse (1869-1945)

Nu assise

1929 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 4,637.50
509 Henri Matisse (1869-1945)

Figure assise, le bras droit appuye sur une table

1929 USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 USD 4,306.25
607 Max Beckmann (1884-1950)

Two Dancing Couples

1923 USD 2,000.00 - 4,000.00 USD 4,306.25
663 Candida Hofer (b. 1944)

Museo Archeologico Madrid

2000 USD 2,000.00 - 4,000.00 USD 4,306.25
691 Andy Warhol (1928-1987)

Cow Wallpaper

1976 USD 2,000.00 - 4,000.00 USD 4,306.25
582 Frederick Sommer (1905-1999)

Glass

1943 USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 3,975.00
606 Georges Braque (1882-1963)

Oiseaux

USD 1,500.00 - 3,000.00 USD 3,975.00
583 Frederick Sommer (1905-1999)

The Milky Way

1949 USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 3,842.50
511 Henri Matisse (1869-1945)

Orientale assise, voile sur la tete

1929 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 3,577.50
594 Yves Tanguy, par Andre Breton,

Pierre Matisse Editions 1946

1946 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 3,577.50
657 David McDermott & Peter McGough (b. 1952 and 1958)

Untitled; and Mass in the Form of a Rectangle

1991 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 3,577.50
584 Herbert George Ponting (1870-1935)

Western Geological Party

USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 3,445.00
647 Minor White (1908-1976)

Sun Over the Pacific, Devil's Slide, from Song Without Words Sequence

1947 USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 USD 3,445.00
602 Henri Matisse (1869-1945)

Cinquant dessins

1920 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 3,312.50
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    Sotheby’s: William Shakespeare.
    The Poems and Sonnets of William Shakespeare, 1960. 7,210 USD
    Sotheby’s: Charles Dickens.
    A Christmas Carol, First Edition, 1843. 17,500 USD
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    Lord of the Flies, First Edition, 1954. 5,400 USD
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    The Hobbit, First Edition, 1937. 12,000 USD
    Sotheby’s: John Milton.
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