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Rago Arts and Auctions: Photographs
Auction Reports
| Auction Name | Photographs | Total Sales (USD) | 258,983.00 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Auction Date | March 10, 2026 - March 10, 2026 | Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) | 209,000.00 |
| Sale Number | #31026c | High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) | 314,400.00 |
| Total Lots | 131 | ||
| Sold Lots | 121.0 | Low Estimate of All Lots (USD) | 231,200.00 |
| % of Lots Sold | 92.37% | High Estimate of All Lots (USD) | 347,200.00 |
| Unsold Lots | 10 | Total Sales as a % of High Est. | 74.59% |
Top twenty-five by sale price
| Lot Number | Author Name | Book Title | Year Published | Estimate | Actual Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 112 | Richard Misrach b.1949 | On the Beach #578-02 |
2002 / printed 2003 | USD 12,000.00 - 18,000.00 | USD 27,940.00 |
| 106 | Graciela Iturbide b.1942 | Mujer Angel Desierto de Sonora |
1979 / printed 1996 | USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 | USD 11,430.00 |
| 181 | Terry O'Neill 1938--2019 | Raquel Welch on the Cross |
1966 / printed later | USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 | USD 9,525.00 |
| 118 | Carlo Mollino 1905--1973 | Untitled (Polaroid) |
N/A | USD 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 | USD 8,890.00 |
| 127 | Malick Sidibe 1936--2016 | Mali Twist |
1960-1989 / printed 2014 | USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 | USD 8,255.00 |
| 175 | Irving Penn 1917--2009 | Pablo Picasso at La Californie, Cannes |
1957 / printed later | USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 | USD 6,985.00 |
| 113 | Richard Misrach b.1949 | Saguaro Cactus #51 |
1975 / printed 1977 | USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 | USD 6,600.00 |
| 103 | Hassan Hajjaj | Mr. M. Toliver |
2013 | USD 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 | USD 6,096.00 |
| 117 | Peter Beard b.1938 | Two Diary Pages, April 7th and 8th, 1970 (from Pettiness and Futility) |
1970 / printed later | USD 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 | USD 5,544.00 |
| 133 | Gottfried Helnwein b.1948 | Untitled (Self-Portrait) |
1987 | USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 | USD 5,544.00 |
| 172 | Tseng Kwong Chi 1950--1990 | Untitled |
c.1983 | USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 | USD 4,826.00 |
| 178 | Terry O'Neill 1938--2019 | Elton John, Dodgers Stadium, Howling |
1975 / printed later | USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 | USD 4,826.00 |
| 100 | Dawoud Bey b.1953 | Untitled |
c.1995 | USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 | USD 4,064.00 |
| 102 | Dawoud Bey b.1953 | Untitled |
c.1995 | USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 | USD 4,064.00 |
| 126 | William Klein 1926--2022 | Smoke + Veil, Paris |
1958 / printed later | USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 | USD 4,064.00 |
| 139 | Lucien Clergue 1934--2014 | Untitled (from the Boston suite) (five works) |
1985 / printed 1986 | USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 | USD 4,064.00 |
| 182 | Edward S. Curtis 1868--1952 | Hamatsa Emerging from the Woods - Koskimo |
c.1910-14 | USD 1,200.00 - 1,800.00 | USD 3,960.00 |
| 128 | Diane Arbus 1923--1971 | South Bay Singles Club, Girl on Bed |
1971 / printed 1985 | USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 | USD 3,556.00 |
| 130 | Diane Arbus 1923--1971 | Woman with a Headless Dummy, N.Y.C. |
1956 / printed later | USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 | USD 3,556.00 |
| 135 | Gottfried Helnwein b.1948 | Untitled (Clown) |
1987 | USD 700.00 - 900.00 | USD 3,432.00 |
| 107 | Man Ray 1890--1976 | Untitled (from the 12 Rayographs 1921-1928 portfolio) |
1921-1928 portfolio) | USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 | USD 3,302.00 |
| 161 | Zhang Huan b.1965 | Foam (12) |
1998 | USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | USD 3,302.00 |
| 173 | Ernst Haas 1921--1986 | Time Square Reflection, New York City |
1962 / printed 2025 | USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | USD 3,302.00 |
| 105 | James Welling b.1951 | Tile Photograph 23 |
1985 | USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | USD 3,048.00 |
| 158 | William Eggleston b.1939 | Untitled (Red Brick Wall Lollipops on Right, Mexico) |
2001 | USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | USD 3,048.00 |
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28th May 2026Forum, May 28: Book of Hours.- Heures de nostre dame a l'usaige de Romme, Paris, Antoine Chappiel pour Germain Hardouin, [1504]. £6,000-8,000Forum, May 28: Colonna (Francesco). La Hypnerotomachia di Poliphilo, second edition, Venice, Sons of Aldus Manutius, 1545. £15,000-20,000Forum, May 28: The Christ Child holding a crystal orb and surrounded by banderoles with devotional exhortations, on a leaf most probably from a Book of Hours, [Southern Netherlands, last decades of the fifteenth century]. £2,000-3,000Forum Auctions
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28th May 2026Forum, May 28: Jackson (Shirley). The Haunting of Hill House, first English edition, signed presentation inscription from the author to Claude Fredericks, 1960. £2,000-3,000Forum, May 28: Lennon (John). In His Own Write, first edition, first impression, signed by the author, 1964. £3,000-4,000Forum, May 28: Doves Press.- Keats (John). [Poems], one of 200 copies on paper, Doves Press, 1914. £5,000-7,000Forum Auctions
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28th May 2026Forum, May 28: Rodrigues (João Barbosa). Sertum Palmarum Brasiliensium, 2 vol., first and only edition, Brussels, 1903. £8,000-12,000Forum, May 28: Newton (Sir Isaac). Philosophiae naturalis principia mathematica…editio ultima, auctior et emendatior, Amsterdam, Sumptibus Societatis, 1714. £8,000-12,000Forum, May 28: Kepler (Johannes). Ad Vitellionem paralipomena, wuibus astronomiae pars optica traditur, first edition, Frankfurt am Main, 1604. £5,000-7,000Forum Auctions
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28th May 2026Forum, May 28: Tagliacozzi (Gaspare). De Curtorum Chirurgia per insitionem, libri duo, first edition, Venice, Gasparo Bindoni, 1597. £7,000-10,000Forum, May 28: Lootsman (Jacobsz). The Lightning Colomne, or Sea-Mirrour, containing the Sea-Coasts of the Northern, Eastern and Western Navigation..., 1670. £8,000-12,000Forum, May 28: Ribelles y Helip (José), Attributed to. An album comprising 33 finely executed watercolours of Spanish costume, bull-fighting scenes, and other genre subjects, [circa 1830]. £10,000-15,000 -
