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Michael Treloar: Photography from the Collection of Joyce Evans OAM

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Auction Name Photography from the Collection of Joyce Evans OAM Total Sales (AUD) 58,562.50
Auction Date December 12, 2025 - December 12, 2025 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (AUD) 39,300.00
Sale Number #121225 High Estimate of Lots Sold (AUD) 65,150.00
Total Lots 101
Sold Lots 41.0 Low Estimate of All Lots (AUD) 87,700.00
% of Lots Sold 40.59% High Estimate of All Lots (AUD) 140,500.00
Unsold Lots 60 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 41.68%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
11

Camera Work. Numbers 1 and 2. Signed by Alfred Stieglitz

AUD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 AUD 20,000.00
42 Andre Kertesz

Andre Kertesz: Melancholic Tulip, 1939 (signed)

1939 AUD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 AUD 8,125.00
39 Andre Kertesz

Andre Kertesz: January 1, 1972, Martinique (signed)

1972 AUD 1,000.00 - 2,000.00 AUD 2,500.00
93 Minor White

Minor White: Birdlime and Surf, 1951, Point Lobos, California (signed)

1951 AUD 1,000.00 - 2,000.00 AUD 1,750.00
36 Andre Kertesz

Andre Kertesz: Broken plate, 1929, Paris (signed)

1929 AUD 1,500.00 - 3,000.00 AUD 1,500.00
37 Andre Kertesz

Andre Kertesz: Elizabeth, 1931, Paris (signed)

1931 AUD 1,500.00 - 3,000.00 AUD 1,500.00
38 Andre Kertesz

Andre Kertesz: Homing ship, October 13, 1944 (signed)

1944 AUD 1,500.00 - 3,000.00 AUD 1,500.00
44 Andre Kertesz

Andre Kertesz: Swimming, September 14, 1919, Duna Haraszti (signed)

1919 AUD 1,500.00 - 3,000.00 AUD 1,500.00
88 Roman Vishniac

Roman Vishniac: Jewish Peasant, Carpatho-Ukraine, 1937 (signed)

1937 AUD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 AUD 1,500.00
91 Roman Vishniac

Roman Vishniac: Synagogue Court, Vilna, 1938 (signed)

1938 AUD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 AUD 1,500.00
98 Minor White

Minor White: Two Barns, 1955, Dansville, New York (signed)

1955 AUD 1,000.00 - 2,000.00 AUD 1,500.00
94 Minor White

Minor White: Ivy, 1964, Portland, Oregon (signed)

1964 AUD 1,000.00 - 2,000.00 AUD 1,375.00
2

Australian Federation Celebrations, Melbourne, 1901. Suite of 47 photographs

AUD 1,000.00 - 2,000.00 AUD 1,250.00
17 Augusta Crofton Dillon

Augusta Crofton Dillon: Album with over 225 photographs (1880-1898)

1880-1898 AUD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 AUD 1,000.00
48 D. McDonald

D. McDonald: 67 photographs of Melbourne (circa 1870s)

circa 1870s AUD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 AUD 1,000.00
72 Alfred Stieglitz

Alfred Stieglitz: In the New York Central Yards (photogravure, 1911)

1911 AUD 1,000.00 - 2,000.00 AUD 1,000.00
96 Minor White

Minor White: Ritual Stones, 1963, Notom, Utah (signed)

1963 AUD 1,000.00 - 2,000.00 AUD 1,000.00
19 Gael Newton

Gael Newton: Max Dupain (1980, signed)

1980 AUD 200.00 - 300.00 AUD 875.00
87

Travel album with 73 photographs of Scotland, Switzerland (mountaineering) etc., (circa 1870s)

circa 1870s AUD 600.00 - 800.00 AUD 625.00
60

New South Wales: Presentation album with 86 photographs (1888) for J.H. Watkin, Mayor of Ashfield

1888 AUD 500.00 - 750.00 AUD 525.00
68 George H. Seeley

George H. Seeley: Four photogravures from Camera Work (1907)

1907 AUD 500.00 - 1,000.00 AUD 525.00
20

Victorian-era album of 244 portraits of British luminaries

AUD 500.00 - 750.00 AUD 500.00
75 Alfred Stieglitz

Alfred Stieglitz: The Pool, Deal (photogravure, 1911)

1911 AUD 500.00 - 750.00 AUD 500.00
76 Alfred Stieglitz

Alfred Stieglitz: The Swimming Lesson (photogravure, 1911)

1911 AUD 500.00 - 750.00 AUD 500.00
78

Tasmania: Album with 14 large-format photographs (Anson Bros, 1880s)

1880s AUD 200.00 - 300.00 AUD 425.00
  • Sotheby’s
    Year in Review
    Sotheby’s Year in Review: A Rare Hebrew Bible with Micrographic Masorah. Sold: 1,514,000 USD
    Sotheby’s Year in Review: "The Freedman's Primer.” Sold: 241,300 USD
    Sotheby’s Year in Review: Smith, William. "The Map that Changed the World." Sold: 139,700 USD
    Sotheby’s Year in Review: Psalter, C13th. Illuminated Psalter. Sold: 330,200 GBP
    Sotheby’s Year in Review: Lincoln, Abraham. The abolition of slavery. Sold: 13,697,500 USD
    Sotheby’s Year in Review: Vergilius. Opera, Venice, Aldo Manuzio, 1501. Sold: 1,041,400 USD
  • Case Antiques
    2026 Winter Fine Art & Antiques
    January 31 and February 1, 2026
    Case Antiques, Jan. 31-Feb. 1: 1775 Map of Virginia, Fry and Jefferson, ex-John Tyler. $6,000 to $8,000.
    Case Antiques, Jan. 31-Feb. 1: Albrecht Durer Engraving, The Peasant Couple at Market. $3,400 to $3,800.
    Case Antiques, Jan. 31-Feb. 1: 1777 Map: Wm. Faden, British Colonies in N. America, ex. John Tyler. $2,000 to $2,400.
    Case Antiques
    2026 Winter Fine Art & Antiques
    January 31 and February 1, 2026
    Case Antiques, Jan. 31-Feb. 1: 30 Vols. George Eliot 1st Editions; Mill on the Floss, Silas Marner, Deronda, etc. $1,400 to $1,800.
    Case Antiques, Jan. 31-Feb. 1: Celestial Floor Globe c. 1800. $1,400 to $1,800.
    Case Antiques, Jan. 31-Feb. 1: Lewis Carroll: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, 1866 London MacMillan. $900 to $1,200.
    Case Antiques
    2026 Winter Fine Art & Antiques
    January 31 and February 1, 2026
    Case Antiques, Jan. 31-Feb. 1: President Andrew Jackson Signed Patent, 1831. $1,000 to $1,200.
    Case Antiques, Jan. 31-Feb. 1: Civil War Tintype of Calvin “Old Ballie” Walker, CSA 3rd TN Infantry, KIA, plus 3 Union Images. $800 to $1,000.
    Case Antiques, Jan. 31-Feb. 1: 1855 Georgia Pocket Map, W. G. Bonner. $800 to $1,000.
    Case Antiques
    2026 Winter Fine Art & Antiques
    January 31 and February 1, 2026
    Case Antiques, Jan. 31-Feb. 1: Audubon c. 1835 Birds of America Common Cormorant, Havell Edition. $800 to $900.
    Case Antiques, Jan. 31-Feb. 1: George Eliot, Middlemarch, 1st Edition in 8 Volumes. $600 to $800.
    Case Antiques, Jan. 31-Feb. 1: Four NASA Moon Survey Photos; 144M, 148M, 149M, 149H1. $400 to $600.