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Aspire Art Auctions: Autumn '26 Collection: Continuum

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Auction Name Autumn '26 Collection: Continuum Total Sales (ZAR) 137,280.00
Auction Date April 14, 2026 - April 14, 2026 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (ZAR) 124,000.00
Sale Number #41426 High Estimate of Lots Sold (ZAR) 173,000.00
Total Lots 42
Sold Lots 14.0 Low Estimate of All Lots (ZAR) 355,000.00
% of Lots Sold 33.33% High Estimate of All Lots (ZAR) 510,000.00
Unsold Lots 28 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 26.92%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Top Sale Price Lots
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
79 Robert Hodgins (South Africa 1920-2010)

Miss Priss

2009 ZAR 35,000.00 - 45,000.00 ZAR 35,865.00
10 William Kentridge (South Africa 1955-)

Act III scene 1

2017 ZAR 30,000.00 - 40,000.00 ZAR 31,083.00
68 Deborah Bell (South Africa 1957-)

In Our Sleep, Where We Meet

2006 ZAR 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 ZAR 10,760.00
69 Deborah Bell (South Africa 1957-)

Down a River of Red

2005 ZAR 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 ZAR 10,760.00
73 Gerhard Marx (South Africa 1976-)

Moving Skies

2007 ZAR 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 ZAR 9,564.00
1 Sam Nhlengethwa (South Africa 1955-)

Oranges

1995 ZAR 7,000.00 - 9,000.00 ZAR 7,173.00
17 Dorothy Kay (Ireland 1886-1964)

Energy

N/A ZAR 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 ZAR 7,173.00
13 John Meyer (South Africa 1942-)

A Forest of Dreams

N/A ZAR 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 ZAR 6,575.00
21 George Morland (Britain 1763-1804)

Slave Trade

N/A ZAR 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 ZAR 5,738.00
7 David Koloane (South Africa 1938-2019)

Tea and Gossip I

2015 ZAR 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 ZAR 4,782.00
6 David Koloane (South Africa 1938-2019)

Nightwatch

2015 ZAR 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 ZAR 4,460.00
8 Cecil Skotnes (South Africa 1926-2009)

Abstracts, two

N/A ZAR 2,000.00 - 4,000.00 ZAR 1,793.00
3 Thapelo Anthony Motsumi (South Africa 1991-)

Yeoville Prayer Mountain

2011 ZAR 1,000.00 - 2,000.00 ZAR 956.00
15 William Timlin (United Kingdom 1892-1943)

Walls and Trees

N/A ZAR 1,000.00 - 2,000.00 ZAR 598.00
  • Forum Auctions
    Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    28th May 2026
    Forum, May 28: Book of Hours.- Heures de nostre dame a l'usaige de Romme, Paris, Antoine Chappiel pour Germain Hardouin, [1504]. £6,000-8,000
    Forum, May 28: Colonna (Francesco). La Hypnerotomachia di Poliphilo, second edition, Venice, Sons of Aldus Manutius, 1545. £15,000-20,000
    Forum, 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]. £2,000-3,000
    Forum Auctions
    Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    28th May 2026
    Forum, May 28: Jackson (Shirley). The Haunting of Hill House, first English edition, signed presentation inscription from the author to Claude Fredericks, 1960. £2,000-3,000
    Forum, May 28: Lennon (John). In His Own Write, first edition, first impression, signed by the author, 1964. £3,000-4,000
    Forum, May 28: Doves Press.- Keats (John). [Poems], one of 200 copies on paper, Doves Press, 1914. £5,000-7,000
    Forum Auctions
    Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    28th May 2026
    Forum, May 28: Rodrigues (João Barbosa). Sertum Palmarum Brasiliensium, 2 vol., first and only edition, Brussels, 1903. £8,000-12,000
    Forum, May 28: Newton (Sir Isaac). Philosophiae naturalis principia mathematica…editio ultima, auctior et emendatior, Amsterdam, Sumptibus Societatis, 1714. £8,000-12,000
    Forum, May 28: Kepler (Johannes). Ad Vitellionem paralipomena, wuibus astronomiae pars optica traditur, first edition, Frankfurt am Main, 1604. £5,000-7,000
    Forum Auctions
    Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    28th May 2026
    Forum, May 28: Tagliacozzi (Gaspare). De Curtorum Chirurgia per insitionem, libri duo, first edition, Venice, Gasparo Bindoni, 1597. £7,000-10,000
    Forum, May 28: Lootsman (Jacobsz). The Lightning Colomne, or Sea-Mirrour, containing the Sea-Coasts of the Northern, Eastern and Western Navigation..., 1670. £8,000-12,000
    Forum, 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