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Rago Arts and Auctions: The Curious Tour: The Lisa Goldberg Collection

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Auction Name The Curious Tour: The Lisa Goldberg Collection Total Sales (USD) 70,527.00
Auction Date July 29, 2025 - July 29, 2025 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 29,200.00
Sale Number #72925 High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 42,400.00
Total Lots 49
Sold Lots 46 Low Estimate of All Lots (USD) 32,700.00
% of Lots Sold 93.88% High Estimate of All Lots (USD) 47,100.00
Unsold Lots 3 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 149.74%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
101 M.C. Escher 1898--1972

Dusk

1946 USD 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 USD 44,450.00
275 James Rizzi 1950--2011

It's So Hard to be a Saint When You're Living in the City

1977 USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 4,064.00
122 Sol LeWitt 1928--2007

Serial System Using Lines and Color portfolio

1977 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 3,302.00
306 Adam Katseff b.1984

Studio, Stanford University, California

2012 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 1,320.00
103 Georges Braque 1882--1963

Untitled (from La Theogonie d'Hesiode series)

1955 USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 USD 1,270.00
209 Paul Caponigro 1932--2024

Urban Still Life

USD 900.00 - 1,200.00 USD 1,188.00
254 Serge Gladky 1880--1930

Two works from the La Voie Celeste portfolio

1929 USD 500.00 - 700.00 USD 1,056.00
273 Lothar Osterburg b.1961

Sailboats III

1999 USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 953.00
252 Jed Devine b.1944

Untitled (Motel Moody's)

c.1980 USD 500.00 - 700.00 USD 826.00
266 Adolf Benca b.1959

Horse Rider

1985 USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 826.00
175 Lucas Kilian 1579--1637

Sleeping Child with Four Skulls (Mors Omnia Aequat) (After Barthel Beham)

USD 700.00 - 900.00 USD 762.00
180 Jean Lurcat 1892--1966

Esquisse de Smyrne

c.1927 USD 500.00 - 700.00 USD 762.00
263 Roxandra (Cindy) Dardagan Britz b.1962

Ten works from the 16 Political Animals series

USD 700.00 - 900.00 USD 726.00
115 Henri Cartier-Bresson 1908--2004

The Decisive Moment

1952 USD 500.00 - 700.00 USD 699.00
199 After Willem de Kooning

31 Peintres Americains exhibition poster

1963 USD 200.00 - 300.00 USD 699.00
281 Sprague and Hathaway Company

The Golden Gate, The Transportation Buliding of the Chicago World's Fair

1893 USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 699.00
113 After Georges Braque

L'oiseau et son nid

1956 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 594.00
124 Henry Moore 1898--1986

Heads, Figures and Ideas

1958 USD 500.00 - 700.00 USD 572.00
297 Jane Eppel b.1979

Untitled (from the Natural Selection series)

2011 USD 700.00 - 900.00 USD 572.00
215 Josep Maria Riera i Arago b.1954

Avio Petit 4; Untitled (two works)

c.2005 USD 500.00 - 700.00 USD 462.00
139 Chad Kleitsch b.1968

Untitled

2010 USD 500.00 - 700.00 USD 445.00
277 David Lewis Taylor

Boardwalk in the Fog

1997 USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 445.00
128 Alexandre Istrati 1915--1991

Untitled

USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 381.00
194 Thomas Annan 1829--1887

Close no. 11 Bridgegate, Glasgow

USD 200.00 - 300.00 USD 318.00
278 Charles Whitin

Untitled (Still Life)

1984 USD 200.00 - 300.00 USD 318.00
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