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Auction Info

Auction Name
Photographs Now: The Collector's Edition
Auction Date
07/17/2025 - 07/17/2025
Sale Number
#30563
Total Lots
265
Sold Lots
192
Lots Sold
72.45%
Unsold Lots
73
Total Sales (USD)
677,990.00
Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD)
475,100.00
High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD)
707,900.00
Low Estimate of All Lots (USD)
653,200.00
High Estimate of All Lots (USD)
971,300.00
Total Sales as a % of High Est.
69.80%

Top twenty five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
98 Natalie White

Entangled Particles in One Region of Space

2015 USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 46,080.00
51 Irving Penn

'Cuzco Children, Peru, Dec. 1948'

1948, printed before 1975 USD 25,000.00 - 35,000.00 USD 33,280.00
26 Ansel Adams

Moonrise, Hernandez, New Mexico

1941, printed 1978 USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 USD 33,280.00
194 Helen Levitt

Selected Images of Children Playing

c.1940-42, printed c. 1940s USD 7,000.00 - 10,000.00 USD 23,040.00
235 Philip-Lorca diCorcia

William Charles Everlove; 26 Years Old; Stockholm, Sweden, Via Arizona; $40 (from 'Hustler')

1990-92 USD 7,000.00 - 10,000.00 USD 19,200.00
206 Henri Cartier-Bresson

Ile de la Cite, Paris

1951, printed c. 1995 USD 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 USD 12,800.00
42 Edward Steichen

Road Into the Valley - Moonrise (from the Steichen Special Edition of 'Camera Work')

1904, printed 1906 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 12,160.00
1 Nino Migliori

'Il Tuffatore'

1951, printed later USD 7,000.00 - 9,000.00 USD 8,960.00
125 Walker Evans

Citizen in Downtown Havana

1933 USD 6,000.00 - 9,000.00 USD 8,960.00
112 Irving Penn

'[Saul] Steinberg in Nose Mask, New York, Sept. 30, 1966'

1966, printed 1984 USD 12,000.00 - 18,000.00 USD 8,960.00
6 Saul Leiter

'Lanesville'

1958, printed later USD 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 USD 8,320.00
133 Helen Levitt

New York (Mothers and Boys)

c.1942, printed 1940s USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 8,320.00
2 Diane Arbus

Two Girls in Matching Bathing Suits, Coney Island, NY

1967, printed posthumously by Neil Selkirk USD 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 USD 7,680.00
53 Henri Cartier-Bresson

Oaxaca, Mexico

1963, printed later USD 6,000.00 - 9,000.00 USD 7,680.00
123 Arnold Newman

'Igor Stravinsky'

1946, printed later USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 7,680.00
13 Henri Cartier-Bresson

On the Banks of the Marne

1938, printed later USD 7,000.00 - 10,000.00 USD 7,040.00
34 Eliot Porter

Glen Canyon

1961-71 USD 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 USD 7,040.00
27 Eliot Porter

Selected Images of New Mexico (comprising 'Chama River', 'Storm Over Sangre de Christo', and 'Pojoaque Valley')

1940-50, printed later USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 7,040.00
33 Eliot Porter

Portfolio One: The Seasons

1951-61 USD 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 USD 7,040.00
118 Yousuf Karsh

Muhammad Ali (from the portfolio 'Fifteen Portraits')

1970, printed 1983 USD 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 USD 6,400.00

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