Christies: Barry Humphries: The Personal Collection, 22992, London - King Street

Auction Details

Auction Report
Auction Date
February 13, 2025 - February 13, 2025
Page Size: 104 items in 5 pages

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
150 ENGLISH SCHOOL, 19TH CENTURY

Portrait sketch of Lord Alfred Douglas (1870-1945), in profile (recto) and a subsidiary sketch (verso)

GBP 500.00 - 800.00 GBP 630.00
151 ENGLISH SCHOOL, 19TH CENTURY

Portrait of Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)

GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 GBP 1,386.00
152 WILDE, Oscar (1854-1900)

Autograph manuscripts drafts for 17 epigrams on art, morality, life and education,

n.p., n.d. [c.1888] GBP 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 GBP 47,880.00
153 WILDE, Oscar (1854-1900)

Lady Windermere's Fan. A Play about a Good Woman.

London 1893 GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 GBP 5,292.00
154 WILDE, Oscar (1854-1900)

Carte-de-visite photograph signed ('Oscar Wilde'),

[Oxford c.1876] GBP 7,000.00 - 10,000.00 Not Sold
155 WILDE, Oscar (1854-1900) and Lord Alfred DOUGLAS (1870-1945; contributors)---[Jack BLOXAM (ed.)]

The Chameleon, vol. I, no. 1.

London 1894 GBP 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 GBP 10,710.00
156 WILDE, Oscar (1854-1900)

The Sphinx. London: Elkin Mathews and John Lane.

The Ballantyne Press 1894 GBP 20,000.00 - 25,000.00 GBP 20,160.00
157 [WILDE, Oscar (1854-1900)]

The Ballad of Reading Gaol by C.3.3.

London 1898 GBP 6,000.00 - 9,000.00 GBP 18,900.00
158 WILDE, Oscar (1854-1900)

The Ballad of Reading Gaol by C.3.3. - La Ballade de la geole de Reading. Transcription francaise de Henry-D. Davray.

Paris 1898 GBP 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 GBP 12,600.00
159 [WILDE, Oscar (1854-1900)]

Children In Prison and Other Cruelties of Prison Life.

London [1898] GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 GBP 2,016.00
160 WILDE, Oscar (1854-1900)

The Importance of Being Earnest. A Trivial Comedy for Serious People. By the Author of Lady Windermere's Fan.

London 1899 GBP 100,000.00 - 150,000.00 GBP 138,600.00
161 WILDE, Oscar (1854-1900)

The Importance of Being Earnest. A Trivial Comedy for Serious People by the Author of Lady Windermere's Fan.

London 1899 GBP 25,000.00 - 35,000.00 GBP 44,100.00
162 [WILDE, Oscar (1854-1900)]

An Ideal Husband. By the Author of Lady Windermere's Fan.

London 1899 GBP 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 GBP 10,710.00
163 WILDE, Oscar (1854-1900)

The Soul of Man under Socialism.

London 1904 GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 GBP 6,048.00
164 WILDE, Oscar (1854-1900)

[Collected Works]. Edited by Robert Ross.

London 1908 GBP 5,000.00 - 8,000.00 GBP 5,040.00
165 SIR MAX BEERBOHM (1872-1956)

Sketch of Leonard Smithers (1861-1907), bust-length, executed on a letter to the poet John Betjeman (1906-1984)

GBP 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 GBP 11,970.00
166 SIR MAX BEERBOHM (1872-1956)

Portrait of Mr Carson, Q.C., M.P. (1854-1935), full-length

GBP 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 GBP 8,190.00
167 SIR MAX BEERBOHM (1872-1956)

Portrait of Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)

GBP 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 GBP 22,680.00
168 SIR MAX BEERBOHM (1872-1956)

Portrait of Signor Gabriele d'Annunzio (1863-1938)

1912 GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 GBP 3,276.00
169 SIR MAX BEERBOHM (1872-1956)

Portrait of Monsieur Jacques-Emile Blanche (1861-1942)

GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 GBP 2,268.00
170 SIR WILLIAM ROTHENSTEIN (1872-1945)

Portrait study of James Abbott McNeil Whistler (1834-1903)

GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 GBP 3,528.00
171 SIR WILLIAM ROTHENSTEIN (1872-1945)

Portrait of Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (1841-1930)

GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 GBP 5,292.00
172 SIR WILLIAM ROTHENSTEIN (1872-1945)

Phil May sketching

6/90 GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00 GBP 2,268.00
181 JAN TOOROP (1858-1928)

Delftsche slaolie (Delft Salad Oil) (poster)

1894 GBP 7,000.00 - 10,000.00 GBP 10,710.00
183 MAX KLINGER (1857-1920)

Ins Nichts Zuruck (Back to nothingness), from: Opus Vlll

1884 GBP 500.00 - 1,000.00 GBP 8,820.00