Auction Reports

Rago Arts and Auctions

Auction Info

Auction Name
Photographs from the Polaroid Collection
Auction Date
06/10/2025 - 06/10/2025
Sale Number
#61025
Total Lots
129
Sold Lots
128
Lots Sold
99.22%
Unsold Lots
1
Total Sales (USD)
584,443.00
Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD)
377,200.00
High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD)
536,600.00
Low Estimate of All Lots (USD)
378,200.00
High Estimate of All Lots (USD)
538,100.00
Total Sales as a % of High Est.
108.61%

Top twenty five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
138 Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons b.1959 follow artist

Abridor de Caminos (The One Who Opens the Path)

1997 USD 50,000.00 - 70,000.00 USD 116,840.00
131 Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons b.1959 follow artist

De Las Dos Aguas (Of the Two Waters)

2007 USD 70,000.00 - 90,000.00 USD 107,950.00
157 Ansel Adams 1902--1984 follow artist

Winter Sunrise, Sierra Nevada from Lone Pine, CA

1944 / printed later USD 25,000.00 - 35,000.00 USD 21,590.00
137 Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons b.1959 follow artist

Susurro (Whispers) (diptych)

1997 USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 USD 17,780.00
101 Dawoud Bey b.1953 follow artist

Untitled (triptych)

1992 USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 USD 16,510.00
117 Dawoud Bey b.1953 follow artist

Toyia, Kelvin, and Erica

1994 USD 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 USD 16,510.00
132 Karel Appel 1921--2006 follow artist

No. 5215 (from the Titan Series)

1988 USD 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 USD 10,795.00
112 Richard Hamilton 1922--2011 follow artist

Untitled

c. 1980 USD 7,000.00 - 9,000.00 USD 10,160.00
108 Sarah Moon b.1941 follow artist

Stockings

1997 USD 2,500.00 - 3,500.00 USD 9,525.00
145 Robert Cumming b.1943 follow artist

Easy Analogy

1979 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 9,525.00
126 Sarah Moon b.1941 follow artist

Central Park

1994 USD 1,200.00 - 1,800.00 USD 8,890.00
120 Dawoud Bey b.1953 follow artist

Parris, Walida, and Mike: Phillips Academy students, Boston, MA (triptych)

1992 USD 7,000.00 - 9,000.00 USD 8,255.00
189 Masahisa Fukase 1934--2012

A Game: Lips and Needles

1983 USD 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 USD 7,620.00
114 Richard Hamilton 1922--2011 follow artist

Instant Painting

1980 USD 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 USD 6,350.00
181 Jim Goldberg b.1953 follow artist

Untitled

1985-86 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 6,096.00
128 Dawoud Bey b.1953 follow artist

Two boys on Carrollsburg Place

1989 / printed 1990 USD 1,200.00 - 1,800.00 USD 5,715.00
109 Timothy Greenfield-Sanders b.1952 follow artist

David Wojnarowicz

1991 USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 5,715.00
130 Dawoud Bey b.1953 follow artist

Untitled

1993 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 5,334.00
195 Sheila Metzner b.1939 follow artist

Mouille Prototype (from the One of a Kind series)

1986 USD 2,000.00 - 2,500.00 USD 5,080.00
121 Barbara Kasten b.1936 follow artist

Construct PC/2-A

1981 USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 4,826.00

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    Sotheby’s, June 5-19: Bissière, Roger. Cantique à notre frère soleil de saint François. 1954. 1,000 - 1,500 EUR
    Sotheby’s, June 5-19: Céline, Louis-Ferdinand. La vie & l’œuvre de Philippe Ignace Semmelweis. 1924. Rare édition originale, avec envoi. Joint : La Quinine en thérapeutique, 1925. 4,000 - 6,000 EUR
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    5-19 June
    Sotheby’s, June 5-19: Chillida, Eduardo ─ Emil Cioran. Face aux instants. 1985. Un des 100 exemplaires sur Arches. Eau-forte signée. 600 - 800 EUR
    Sotheby’s, June 5-19: Dubuffet, Jean. Ler dla canpane. L’Art Brut, 1948. Édition originale. 3,000 - 5,000 EUR
    Sotheby’s, June 5-19: Dubuffet, Jean. L'Herne Jean Dubuffet. 1973. Un des 100 exemplaires du tirage de luxe avec une sérigraphie originale en couleurs. 1,000 - 1,500 EUR