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Auction Info

Auction Name
Photographs
Auction Date
07/31/2025 - 07/31/2025
Sale Number
#73125
Total Lots
223
Sold Lots
214
Lots Sold
95.96%
Unsold Lots
9
Total Sales (USD)
607,037.00
Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD)
421,300.00
High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD)
610,700.00
Low Estimate of All Lots (USD)
459,300.00
High Estimate of All Lots (USD)
664,700.00
Total Sales as a % of High Est.
91.32%

Top twenty five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
266 Lewis Baltz 1945--2014

Nevada Portfolio

1977 / printed 1978 USD 35,000.00 - 45,000.00 USD 35,560.00
110 Nick Brandt b.1964

Lion Before Storm V

2006 USD 16,000.00 - 22,000.00 USD 30,480.00
109 Alfred Eisenstaedt 1898--1995

Children at the Puppet Theater, Paris

1963 / printed 1994 USD 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 USD 22,860.00
172 Andreas Gursky b.1955

Huhner, Krefeld Chickens

1989 USD 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 USD 13,970.00
192 Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons b.1959

The Calling II (diptych)

2004 USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 USD 12,700.00
191 Dawoud Bey b.1953

Alex and Sarah

1995 USD 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 USD 10,795.00
254 Robert F. Sargent 1923--2012

Into the Jaws of Death, June 6, 1944; French Coast Dead Ahead (two works)

1944 USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 USD 10,795.00
173 John Houck b.1977

Untitled #332 390,624 combinations of a 2x2 grid, 24 colors (from the Aggregates series)

2014 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 10,160.00
174 Chris McCaw b.1971

Sunburned GSP #551 (Mojave)

2012 USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 9,525.00
169 Friedrich Kunath b.1974

Collection of five photographs

2003-11 USD 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 USD 8,890.00
111 Ansel Adams 1902--1984

Oak Tree, Rain, Sonoma County, California

c.1960 / printed c.1975 USD 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 USD 8,255.00
219 Fergus Greer b.1961

Leigh Bowery: Session IV/Look 22, August 1991

1991 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 8,255.00
107 Robert Frank 1924--2019

Mary and Andrea on Third Avenue, NYC

1955 USD 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 USD 7,620.00
117 Toshio Shibata b.1949

Kawauchi Town, Ehime Prefecture

1998 USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 USD 7,620.00
162 Nancy Burson b.1948

Untitled

c.1988 USD 600.00 - 800.00 USD 6,985.00
128 Ruth Bernhard 1905--2006

Perspective II

1967 / printed later USD 2,000.00 - 2,500.00 USD 5,715.00
221 Fergus Greer b.1961

Leigh Bowery: Session I/Look 1, November 1988

1988 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 5,715.00
307 Imogen Cunningham 1883--1976

Frida Kahlo

1931 / printed later USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 5,715.00
230 William Eggleston b.1939

Untitled (Upside down chair, Mexico)

2001 USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 5,334.00
178 Tom Baril b.1952

Martinique

1995 USD 2,500.00 - 3,500.00 USD 5,080.00

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