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Ader: Photographs - On the Occasion of Paris Photo

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Auction Name Photographs - On the Occasion of Paris Photo Total Sales (EUR) 439,946.00
Auction Date November 14, 2025 - November 14, 2025 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR) 285,400.00
Sale Number #168487 High Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR) 408,100.00
Total Lots 335
Sold Lots 170.0 Low Estimate of All Lots (EUR) 655,200.00
% of Lots Sold 50.75% High Estimate of All Lots (EUR) 939,800.00
Unsold Lots 165 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 46.81%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
204 William Klein (1926-2022)

Gun 1. New York, 1954.

EUR 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 EUR 26,000.00
67 Joseph-Philibert Girault de Prangey (1804-1892)

Exedra of the Great Court. Baalbek, Lebanon, 1843-1844.

EUR 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 EUR 16,900.00
157 Brassai (Gyula Halasz, known as) (1899-1984)

Transmutations by Brassai.

EUR 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 EUR 9,750.00
212 Josef Koudelka (1938)

Portugal, 1976.

EUR 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 EUR 9,750.00
232 Peter Lindbergh (1944-2019)

Lynne Koester, Pin-Up Studio. Paris, 1986.

EUR 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 EUR 8,840.00
123 Germaine Krull - Emmanuel Sougez - Egidio Scaioni - Seeberger Freres - Florence Henri - Dora Kallmus, known as Madame d'Ora - Luigi Diaz - Georges Blanc, known as Geo Blanc - Henri Manuel - Therese Bonney - Henryka Philip and others

Jacques Heim catalogs for 1932.

EUR 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 EUR 8,450.00
181 Henri Cartier-Bresson (1908-2004)

Srinagar. Kashmir, India, 1948.

EUR 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 EUR 7,800.00
91 John Beasley Greene (1832-1856)

Ottoman mosque. Cairo, c. 1854-1855.

EUR 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 EUR 7,410.00
231 Sally Mann (1951)

Punctus, 1992.

EUR 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 EUR 6,890.00
164 Chris Marker (1921-2012)

The owls, c. 1960. Dominique Raoul-Duval, c. 1960.

EUR 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 EUR 6,240.00
104 Francois Aubert circle

Mexico, c. 1867. Views of Mexico City.

EUR 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 EUR 5,850.00
12 Julien Vallou de Villeneuve (1795-1866)

Boarders at the Comedie Francaise. Paris, c. 1855.

EUR 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 EUR 5,460.00
35 Edouard Loydreau (1820-1905)

Photographic studies. Album by Edouard Loydreau, 1860.

EUR 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 EUR 5,460.00
57 Etienne-Jules Marey (1830-1904)

Study of air movements, 1901.

EUR 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 EUR 5,460.00
103 Charles Georges Spitz (1857-1894) and others

Memories of Tahiti, 1884-1893.

EUR 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 EUR 5,460.00
150 Henri Cartier-Bresson (1908-2004)

Gardens of the Palais Royal. Paris, 1959.

EUR 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 EUR 5,460.00
206 Robert Frank (1924-2019)

Shadows. Mabou, December 1997.

EUR 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 EUR 5,460.00
290 Denis Brihat (1928-2024)

Coquelicot, 1976.

EUR 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 EUR 5,460.00
302 Bernd Becher (1931-2007) and Hilla Becher (1934-2015)

Industriehallen (Industrial Facades). Image II. Typologies series, 2006.

EUR 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 EUR 5,460.00
5 Guillaume Duchenne de Boulogne (1806-1875) - Adrien Tournachon (1825-1903)

Mecanisme de la physionomie humaine, ou Analyse electro-physiologique de l'expression des passions, 1854-1856.

EUR 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 EUR 5,200.00
27 Eugene Atget (1857-1927)

Belvedere at the Petit Trianon. Versailles, c. 1900.

EUR 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 EUR 5,200.00
297 Robert H. Cumming (1943-2021)

The ball was hap hazardly left at the foot of the stairs. And later, if again hap hazardly, kicked over to the base of the folding screen, 1974.

EUR 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 EUR 5,200.00
312 Samuel Fosso (1962)

The Chief. Tati series, 1997.

EUR 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 EUR 5,200.00
145 Edward Weston (188-1958)

Nude on Sand [Charis Wilson, 1936] for Louis Clyde Stoumen's documentary The Naked Eye, 1956.

EUR 800.00 - 1,200.00 EUR 4,550.00
187 Henri Cartier-Bresson (1908-2004)

Descending the Rhine between Bingen and Saint Goarshausen. Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany, 1956.

EUR 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 EUR 4,550.00
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