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Sothebys: Art & Design from The Collection of Barbara Gladstone

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Auction Name Art & Design from The Collection of Barbara Gladstone Total Sales (USD) 300,800.00
Auction Date June 09, 2026 - June 09, 2026 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 211,000.00
Sale Number #N12151 High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 319,000.00
Total Lots 15
Sold Lots 9.0 Low Estimate of All Lots (USD) 536,000.00
% of Lots Sold 60.00% High Estimate of All Lots (USD) 794,000.00
Unsold Lots 6 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 37.88%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Top Sale Price Lots
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
53 Mapplethorpe Robert (1946-1989)

Self Portrait

1980 USD 80,000.00 - 120,000.00 USD 89,600.00
54 Mapplethorpe Robert (1946-1989)

Calla Lily

1988 USD 30,000.00 - 50,000.00 USD 57,600.00
67 Avedon Richard (1923-2004)

Andy Warhol, Artist, New York City, August 20, 1969

1969, printed 1975 USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 USD 28,160.00
110 Acconci Vito (1940-2017)

Tests and Measures

1972 USD 25,000.00 - 35,000.00 USD 25,600.00
64 Lawler Louise (1947-)

Paris, New York, Rome, Tokyo

1985 USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 USD 23,040.00
104 Ethridge Roe (1969-)

Tulips from the Juice Place

2018 USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 23,040.00
123 Collier Anne (1970-)

Filter #1 (Cyan)

2019 USD 25,000.00 - 35,000.00 USD 19,200.00
125 Gursky Andreas (1955-)

Paris, Beaugrenelle

1988 USD 15,000.00 - 25,000.00 USD 19,200.00
130 Sherman Cindy (1954-)

Untitled (Marilyn)

1982 USD 12,000.00 - 18,000.00 USD 15,360.00
  • Sotheby’s Geek Week
    14-15 July
    Sotheby’s, July 14: Henry De La Beche. "Awful Changes," 1830. $6,000 to $9,000.
    Sotheby’s, July 15: [Apollo 11]. Flight Plan, Complete Original Printing Signed by Buzz Aldrin. $5,000 to $8,000.
    Sotheby’s, July 15: Thomas Alva Edison. Documents Establishing and Ending the Edison Electric Railway Company. $20,000 to $30,000.
    Sotheby’s, July 15: Richard P. Feynman. Feynman's Lectures on Gravitation 1-16, Including the Original Transcriptions of Lectures 12-16 by Morinigo and Wagner, With Richard Feynman's Manuscript Notations, 1971. $12,000 to $18,000.
    Sotheby’s, July 15: [Apollo 9]. A Group of Manuals and Mission Documents used by Stuart Roosa as a member of the Astronaut Support Crew. $5,000 to $8,000.
    Sotheby’s, July 15: [BYTE: The Small Systems Journal]. A collection of early foundational issues of Byte: The Small Systems Journal, with rare hardcover editions. $5,000 to $8,000.
  • Forum Auctions
    The 10th Anniversary Sale
    Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    July 16, 2026
    Forum, July 16: Inundation papyrus. P.Michael 4, the ‘Inundation papyrus’, a geographical account of the Nile near Canopus, in Greek, remains of two columns from a manuscript scroll on papyrus, Egypt, second century CE. £12,000-18,000
    Forum, July 16: Book of Hours, use of Sarum, manuscript on vellum, 6 full-page miniatures, with famous Middle English inscriptions, Southern Netherlands for the English market, [c.1430]. £30,000-50,000
    Forum, July 16: Qu'ran, Arabic manuscript on burnished, stencilled, and gold-flecked paper, 447ff., Sultanate Gujarat, Ahmadabad, [after 1411 but no later than 1442]. £15,000-20,000
    Forum Auctions
    The 10th Anniversary Sale
    Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    July 16, 2026
    Forum, July 16: Turner (William). A New boke of the natures and properties of all wines that are commonly vsed here in England, rare first edition of the first English book on wine, By William Seres, 1568. £20,000-£30,000
    Forum, July 16: Spenser (Edmund). The Faerie Queene. first edition, Printed [by John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, 1590. £30,000-40,000
    Forum, July 16: Shakespeare (William). The Comedie of Errors, extracted from the first folio, Isaac Jaggard and Edward Blount, 1623. £15,000-20,000
    Forum Auctions
    The 10th Anniversary Sale
    Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    July 16, 2026
    Forum, July 16: Fleming (Ian). Casino Royale, first edition, signed presentation inscription from the author, 1953. £40,000-60,000
    Forum, July 16: d'Agoty (Jacques-Fabien Gautier). Anatomie de la Tête, first edition, Paris, chez le Sieur Gautier, 1748. £10,000-15,000
    Forum, July 16: Martial Arts.- Lee (Bruce). 'Praying Mantis style' Kung Fu book, containing numerous annotations, diagrams and graphs in Bruce Lee's hand, c. 1960. £50,000-70,000
    Forum Auctions
    The 10th Anniversary Sale
    Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    July 16, 2026
    Forum, July 16: Warre (Capt. Henry James). Sketches in North America and the Oregon Territory, first edition, rare hand-coloured issue, 1848. £30,000-40,000
    Forum, July 16: Norie (John William). The Marine Atlas, or Seaman's Complete Pilot for all the principal places in the known world..., 1826. £30,000-50,000
    Forum, July 16: Mao Tse-tung.- Kim Il-sung.-[Note book for visitors from China to Korea], signed by Mao and Kim, [Beijing, 1954]. £10,000-15,000