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Chorley's

Auction Info

Auction Name
Modern Art & Design - Ready. Token House: A Contemporary Cotswold Interior
Auction Date
05/20/2025 - 05/20/2025
Sale Number
#52025
Total Lots
60
Sold Lots
52
Lots Sold
86.67%
Unsold Lots
8
Total Sales (GBP)
40,650.00
Low Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP)
16,550.00
High Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP)
25,470.00
Low Estimate of All Lots (GBP)
105,000.00
High Estimate of All Lots (GBP)
145,670.00
Total Sales as a % of High Est.
27.91%

Top twenty five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
310 Roy Lichtenstein (1923-1997)

Shipboard Girl (1965)

1965 GBP 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 GBP 16,250.00
296 Alexander Calder (1898-1976)

Quatre rouges, trois noirs, et une jaune

GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 GBP 4,250.00
311 Roy Lichtenstein (1923-1997)

Sunrise (1965)

1965 GBP 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 GBP 3,125.00
324 Laurence Stephen Lowry (1887-1976)

The Level Crossing

GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 GBP 2,125.00
319 European School, 20th Century,

a collection of twentieth-century exhibition posters advertising the work of well-known European artists,

GBP 100.00 - 150.00 GBP 1,875.00
292 Michael Craig-Martin (born 1941)

Lightbulb, 2015

2015 GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 GBP 1,375.00
286 Sir Terry Frost RA (1915-2003)

It is True from the Lorca Suite (1989)

1989 GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 GBP 1,187.50
289 David Jones (1878-1951)

Boxwood Printing Block for 'Abraham Lincoln' (circa 1924)

circa 1924 GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00 GBP 1,125.00
321 John Piper (1903-1992)

Long Melford Church (Levinson 336)

GBP 400.00 - 600.00 GBP 750.00
4 Jose Escofet (born 1930)

Set of Floral Studies

GBP 100.00 - 150.00 GBP 625.00
313 Henri Matisse (1869-1954)

Madame de Pompadour (1951)

1951 GBP 300.00 - 500.00 GBP 500.00
309 British School, 20th Century,

a very large collection of art, museum and gallery posters, including an exhibition poster for Ben Nicholson's 1969 show at the Tate, a poster for the Silver Jubilee Exhibition of Contemporary British Sculpture, an exhibition poster for Lucie Rie's show

GBP 300.00 - 500.00 GBP 475.00
312 Bryan Pearce (1929-2006)

St Ives All Round (1976)

1976 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 475.00
54

Mallorca Interest A Set of Reproduction Posters Advertising Mallorca,

GBP 100.00 - 150.00 GBP 400.00
287 After Eric William Ravilious (1903-1942)

We will leave this paltry land

GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 350.00
28

[Racing and Formula 1] A collection of volumes to include Briggs (Ian) and Starkey (John) Golden Era: The History of Group C, two volumes, London, 2005

GBP 80.00 - 120.00 GBP 350.00
306 John Piper (1903-1992)

Stones and Bones II

GBP 300.00 - 500.00 GBP 312.50
308 Joan Miro (1893-1983)

'Les Essencies de la Terra per Miro'

GBP 300.00 - 500.00 GBP 312.50
275 Mary Fedden RA (1915-2012)

Oppede le Vieux

GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 275.00
314 After Henri Matisse (1869-1954)

Algue Verte

GBP 100.00 - 150.00 GBP 275.00

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