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Rago Arts and Auctions: Photographs
Auction Reports
| Auction Name | Photographs | Total Sales (USD) | 293,550.00 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Auction Date | May 05, 2026 - May 05, 2026 | Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) | 229,000.00 |
| Sale Number | #50526 | High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) | 345,600.00 |
| Total Lots | 141 | ||
| Sold Lots | 124.0 | Low Estimate of All Lots (USD) | 261,400.00 |
| % of Lots Sold | 87.94% | High Estimate of All Lots (USD) | 394,200.00 |
| Unsold Lots | 17 | Total Sales as a % of High Est. | 74.47% |
Top twenty-five by sale price
| Lot Number | Author Name | Book Title | Year Published | Estimate | Actual Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 124 | Richard Misrach | Untitled |
2002 | USD 30,000.00 - 50,000.00 | USD 23,040.00 |
| 130 | Gregory Crewdson | Untitled (Bedroom Tree) |
2001-02 | USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 | USD 17,920.00 |
| 115 | Tseng Kwong Chi | Notre Dame, Paris, France |
1983 / printed 1996 | USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 | USD 14,080.00 |
| 122 | Edward Burtynsky | Dryland Farming #31, Monegros County, Aragon, Spain |
2010 / printed 2011 | USD 7,000.00 - 9,000.00 | USD 11,305.00 |
| 107 | Malick Sidibe | Mali Twist |
1960-89 / printed 2014 | USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 | USD 8,960.00 |
| 135 | Terry O'Neill | Faye Dunaway at the Pool, Beverly Hills |
1977 | USD 2,500.00 - 3,500.00 | USD 8,320.00 |
| 143 | Jack Pierson | Angel Youth |
1995 | USD 7,000.00 - 9,000.00 | USD 7,980.00 |
| 205 | Aaron Siskind (1903–1991) | Martha’s Vineyard 107B |
1954 / printed later | USD 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 | USD 7,040.00 |
| 128 | Thomas Ruff | Interiors (Interieurs) (set of three) |
1988 | USD 7,000.00 - 9,000.00 | USD 6,400.00 |
| 121 | Shirin Neshat | Women in a Line (from the Rapture series) |
1999 | USD 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 | USD 6,384.00 |
| 219 | Vivian Maier (1926–2009) | Self-Portrait (Reflection in Silver Plate) |
1954 / printed 2014 | USD 1,800.00 - 2,400.00 | USD 5,985.00 |
| 195 | O. Winston Link (1914–2001) | Hot Shot Eastbound, Iaeger, West Virginia |
1957 / printed 1992 | USD 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 | USD 5,586.00 |
| 118 | Larry Clark | Untitled (from the Tulsa series) |
1971 / printed later | USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | USD 5,376.00 |
| 102 | Danny Lyon | Knoxville |
1967 / printed 2000 | USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 | USD 5,120.00 |
| 204 | Brassai (Gyula Halasz) (1899–1984) | Matisse Drawing Nude Model at Villa d’Alesia |
1939 / printed 1973 | USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 | USD 5,120.00 |
| 145 | Alex Prager | Mezzanine, Center |
2016 | USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 | USD 4,864.00 |
| 194 | Robert Adams (b.1937) | The Gardens of the Gods, El Paso County, Colorado |
1977 / printed 1980 | USD 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 | USD 4,864.00 |
| 123 | Matthew Brandt | Borelli Lake, CA 4 (from the Lakes and Reservoirs series) |
2013 | USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 | USD 4,655.00 |
| 127 | Doug Rickard | No. 41.779976, Chicago (2007) |
2011 | USD 1,000.00 - 2,000.00 | USD 4,480.00 |
| 150 | Nobuyoshi Araki | Shino |
2002 | USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 | USD 4,480.00 |
| 108 | Cindy Sherman | Madonna |
1975 / printed 1997 | USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 | USD 4,096.00 |
| 109 | Cindy Sherman | Untitled |
1975 | USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 | USD 3,840.00 |
| 192 | Ansel Adams (1902–1984) | Jeffrey Pine, Sentinel Dome Yosemite National Park, California |
1940 / printed c.1972-74 | USD 2,500.00 - 3,500.00 | USD 3,840.00 |
| 218 | Man Ray (1890–1976) | Untitled (Chess Set) |
1919 | USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 | USD 3,840.00 |
| 146 | Barbara Kasten | Metaphase 3 |
1986 | USD 2,500.00 - 3,500.00 | USD 3,584.00 |
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Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
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
Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
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 -
