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Sothebys: Modern and Contemporary Art Evening Auction

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Auction Name Modern and Contemporary Art Evening Auction Total Sales (EUR) 5,004,800.00
Auction Date April 16, 2026 - April 16, 2026 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR) 2,830,000.00
Sale Number #PF2606 High Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR) 4,000,000.00
Total Lots 7
Sold Lots 7.0 Low Estimate of All Lots (EUR) 2,830,000.00
% of Lots Sold 100.00% High Estimate of All Lots (EUR) 4,000,000.00
Unsold Lots 0 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 125.12%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Top Sale Price Lots
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
21 Marc Chagall

Gouache preparatoire pour la lithographie originale M. 512 (Cirque, Paris, Teriade Editeur 1967)

1956-59 EUR 600,000.00 - 800,000.00 EUR 1,152,000.00
24 Marc Chagall

Gouache preparatoire pour la lithographie originale M. 500 (Cirque, Paris, Teriade Editeur 1967)

1957 EUR 600,000.00 - 800,000.00 EUR 1,152,000.00
20 Marc Chagall

Gouache preparatoire pour la lithographie originale M. 491 (Cirque, Paris, Teriade Editeur 1967)

1956-1959 EUR 400,000.00 - 600,000.00 EUR 896,000.00
26 Marc Chagall

Gouache preparatoire pour la lithographie originale M. 522 (Cirque, Paris, Teriade Editeur 1967)

1957 EUR 300,000.00 - 500,000.00 EUR 563,200.00
23 Marc Chagall

Gouache preparatoire pour la lithographie originale M. 504 (Cirque, Paris, Teriade Editeur 1967)

1957 EUR 500,000.00 - 700,000.00 EUR 512,000.00
25 Marc Chagall

Gouache preparatoire pour la lithographie originale M. 496 (Cirque, Paris, Teriade Editeur 1967)

1961 EUR 250,000.00 - 350,000.00 EUR 473,600.00
22 Marc Chagall

Gouache preparatoire pour la lithographie originale M. 526 (Cirque, Paris, Teriade Editeur 1967)

1961 EUR 180,000.00 - 250,000.00 EUR 256,000.00
  • 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