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Auction Name
Contemporary Discoveries
Auction Date
07/15/2025 - 07/15/2025
Sale Number
#N11786
Total Lots
91
Sold Lots
65
Lots Sold
71.43%
Unsold Lots
26
Total Sales (USD)
941,451.00
Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD)
703,500.00
High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD)
1,034,000.00
Low Estimate of All Lots (USD)
1,042,500.00
High Estimate of All Lots (USD)
1,534,000.00
Total Sales as a % of High Est.
61.37%

Top twenty five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
27 Andy Warhol

Mick Jagger (Feldman & Schellmann II.146)

1975 USD 80,000.00 - 120,000.00 USD 101,600.00
28 Andy Warhol

Mick Jagger (Feldman & Schellmann II.142)

1975 USD 70,000.00 - 100,000.00 USD 88,900.00
30 Andy Warhol

Flowers (Feldman & Schellmann II.65)

1970 USD 40,000.00 - 60,000.00 USD 69,850.00
32 Andy Warhol

Love (Feldman & Schellmann II.310-312)

1983 USD 40,000.00 - 60,000.00 USD 63,500.00
134 Ruud van Empel

World #26

2008 USD 30,000.00 - 50,000.00 USD 44,450.00
197 Matthew Barney

CR 1: MS. GOODYEAR

1995 USD 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 USD 27,940.00
25 Keith Haring

Pop Shop II: One Plate (Littmann p. 97)

1988 USD 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 USD 25,400.00
129 Thomas Struth

Tien An Men, Beijing

1997 USD 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 USD 25,400.00
23 Keith Haring

Pop Shop II: One Plate (Littmann p. 96)

1988 USD 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 USD 25,400.00
56 David Benjamin Sherry

Looking toward Valley of the Gods, Bears Ears National Monument, Utah

2017 USD 7,000.00 - 10,000.00 USD 25,400.00
253 Various Artists

The MOCA portfolio

1999-2000 USD 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 USD 22,860.00
38 Robert Rauschenberg

Untitled

1985 USD 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 USD 20,320.00
36 Tom Wesselmann

Big Blonde

1989 USD 12,000.00 - 18,000.00 USD 20,320.00
29 Tseng Kwong Chi

Jean-Michel Basquiat with Oxidized Portrait by Warhol

1987, printed 2013 USD 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 USD 20,320.00
96 Frank Stella

Fortin de las Flores (First Version), from Ten from Leo Castelli (Axsom IB)

1967 USD 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 USD 16,510.00
104 Frank Stella

Then Water Came and Quenched the Fire, from Illustrations After El Lissitzky's Had Gadya (Axsom 176)

1984 USD 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 USD 16,510.00
120 Vija Celmins

1984-12-01

1985 USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 USD 16,510.00
105 Frank Stella

Shards I-V (Axsom 144-148)

1982 USD 15,000.00 - 25,000.00 USD 15,240.00
145 Eric Fischl

Year of the Drowned Dog

1983 USD 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 USD 15,240.00
235 Roy Lichtenstein

Industry and the Arts (Corlett 86)

1969 USD 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 USD 13,970.00

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