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Auction Name
Contemporary Fine Art
Auction Date
05/15/2025 - 05/15/2025
Sale Number
#51525
Total Lots
86
Sold Lots
77
Lots Sold
89.53%
Unsold Lots
9
Total Sales (USD)
154,980.00
Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD)
121,300.00
High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD)
184,900.00
Low Estimate of All Lots (USD)
130,000.00
High Estimate of All Lots (USD)
198,200.00
Total Sales as a % of High Est.
78.19%

Top twenty five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
590 George Hoyningen-Huene (1900-1968)

The Divers

1930 USD 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 USD 12,150.00
500 Brice Marden (1938-2023)

Untitled, from Couples

1996 USD 9,000.00 - 11,000.00 USD 10,125.00
557 Pablo Picasso (1881-1973)

Le Repos du Sculpteur, from La Suite Vollard

1933 USD 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 USD 8,100.00
631 Attributed to Andy Warhol (1928-1987)

John Wayne, from Cowboys and Indians

1986 USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 6,075.00
600 Harry Callahan (1912-1999)

Cattails Against Sky

1948 USD 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 USD 5,400.00
559 Douglas Cooper, Pablo Picasso,

Les Dejeuners, 1962

USD 700.00 - 900.00 USD 4,387.50
531 Roy Lichtenstein (1923-1997)

Foot Medication

1963 USD 1,000.00 - 2,000.00 USD 4,387.50
550 Max Beckmann (1884-1950)

Schlangendamen

1921 USD 1,200.00 - 1,800.00 USD 4,387.50
581 Donald Baechler (1956-2022)

Ricky's Rice Queen

1990 USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 USD 3,915.00
525 Kiki Smith (b. 1954)

Untitled (Bird)

2012 USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 USD 3,645.00
619 Ruth Bernhard (1905-2006)

In the Box

1962 USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 3,375.00
522 Candida Hofer (b. 1944)

Spiegelkantine, Hamburg III

2000 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 3,240.00
518 Edward Weston (1886-1958)

Nude

1934 USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 USD 2,970.00
651 Felix Gonzalez-Torres (1957-1996)

Untitled (Oscar Wilde)

1995 USD 600.00 - 800.00 USD 2,700.00
666 Philip Taaffe (b. 1955)

Untitled (Palm Frond)

1991 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 2,700.00
615 Ruth Bernhard (1905-2006)

Two Forms

1963 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 2,565.00
618 Ruth Bernhard (1905-2006)

Classic Torso with Hands

1962 USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 2,430.00
630 Jim Dine (b. 1935)

The Henry Street Robes

2006 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 2,295.00
673 Henri Matisse (1869-1945)

Cinquante dessins

1920 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 2,160.00
589 Eadward Muybridge (1830-1904)

Animal Locomotion: Plates 46; 52; 68; 76; 106; and 120

1887 USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 2,160.00

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