Rago Arts and Auctions: Photographs, 73125, Van Nuys, CA

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Auction Report
Auction Date
July 31, 2025 - July 31, 2025
Page Size: 223 items in 9 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
100 Brassai (Gyula Halasz) 1899--1984

Happy Group at the Four Seasons Dance Hall, rue de Lappe, Paris

1932 / printed c.1975 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 2,794.00
101 Pentti Sammallahti b.1950

Varanasi, India; Swayambhunath, Nepal; Swayambhunath, Nepal II

1979, 1994, 1999 / printed later USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 1,651.00
102 Andre Kertesz 1894--1985

Venus, New York

1978 / printed c.1980 USD 1,200.00 - 1,800.00 USD 1,524.00
103 Pentti Sammallahti b.1950

Kirkkonummi, Finland

2016 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 889.00
104 Cornell Capa 1918--2008

Bolshoi Ballet

1958 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 953.00
105 Elliott Erwitt b.1928

Mother and Child, New York

1953 / printed later USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 4,064.00
106 W. Eugene Smith 1918--1978

Untitled (Tomoko Uemera and her Mother) (from the Minamata Series)

c.1971 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 699.00
107 Robert Frank 1924--2019

Mary and Andrea on Third Avenue, NYC

1955 USD 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 USD 7,620.00
108 Weegee 1899--1968

Circus Distortions (three works)

c.1955 USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 USD 3,810.00
109 Alfred Eisenstaedt 1898--1995

Children at the Puppet Theater, Paris

1963 / printed 1994 USD 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 USD 22,860.00
110 Nick Brandt b.1964

Lion Before Storm V

2006 USD 16,000.00 - 22,000.00 USD 30,480.00
111 Ansel Adams 1902--1984

Oak Tree, Rain, Sonoma County, California

c.1960 / printed c.1975 USD 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 USD 8,255.00
112 Ansel Adams 1902--1984

Cemetery Statue and Oil Derricks, Long Beach, California

1939 / printed c.1965 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 4,445.00
113 Ansel Adams 1902--1984

Moonrise from Glacier Point, Yosemite National Park, California

1937 / printed later USD 1,200.00 - 1,800.00 USD 3,810.00
114 Ansel Adams 1902--1984

Untitled (Two Skiers)

c.1935 / printed later USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 1,207.00
115 Ansel Adams 1902--1984

Fern Spring, Dusk Yosemite Valley, California

1961 / printed 1974 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 2,286.00
116 Henry Gilpin 1922--2011

Highway 1, Big Sur, California

1963 / printed later USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 3,810.00
117 Toshio Shibata b.1949

Kawauchi Town, Ehime Prefecture

1998 USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 USD 7,620.00
118 Yoshiyuki Iwase 1904--2001

Seaweed Harvest

1956 / printed c.1960 USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 USD 2,159.00
119 Alfred Ehrhardt 1901--1984

Untitled

c.1935 USD 1,200.00 - 1,800.00 USD 2,286.00
120 Hans Breder 1935--2017

Two works from Old Man's Creek

1971 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 1,143.00
121 Alfred Ehrhardt 1901--1984

Untitled (from the Kurische Nehrung series)

1936 USD 1,200.00 - 1,800.00 USD 1,524.00
122 Lucien Clergue 1934--2014

Nu de la Mer, Camargue

1964 / printed later USD 700.00 - 900.00 USD 1,524.00
123 Hiroshi Sugimoto b.1948

Ionian Sea, Santa Cesarea; Sea of Japan, Hokkaido; South Pacific Ocean, Tearai (three works from the Time Exposed portfolio)

1980-91 / printed 1991 USD 2,500.00 - 3,500.00 USD 4,826.00
124 Harry Callahan 1912--1999

Untitled

c.1954 USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 USD 1,716.00
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