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Auction Name Fine Photography Total Sales (USD) 99,018.75
Auction Date February 22, 2024 - February 22, 2024 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 111,500.00
Sale Number #807 High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 174,700.00
Total Lots 341
Sold Lots 188 Low Estimate of All Lots (USD) 291,800.00
% of Lots Sold 55.13% High Estimate of All Lots (USD) 455,600.00
Unsold Lots 153 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 21.73%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
239 Uelsmann, Jerry

Untitled (Cube over Sea)

1980 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 3,125.00
50 Savage, Charles R.

View Down the Valley, Yosemite

c.1888 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 2,812.50
79 Bernhard, Ruth

Lifesavers

1930; later print USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 2,812.50
161 Tice, George

From The Chrysler Building, New York

1978; print: 1981 USD 2,500.00 - 3,500.00 USD 2,500.00
269 Brady, Mathew

Abraham Lincoln

1864 USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 USD 2,250.00
41 Loewy, Maurice and Pierre Henri Puiseux

Photographie Lunaire: Arzachel - Alphonse - Ptolemee

Image: 1895; printed 1896-1900 USD 2,500.00 - 3,500.00 USD 1,625.00
47 Muybridge, Eadweard

Animal Locomotion - plate 746

1887 USD 600.00 - 900.00 USD 1,625.00
89 Caponigro, Paul

Shoreline, Montauk Beach, Long Island, New York

1972; later print USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 USD 1,625.00
272 Warren, Henry F.

The Last Photograph of Abraham Lincoln

c. 1865 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 1,625.00
77 Baer, Morley

Portfolio I: Andalu

1976 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 1,250.00
119 Jones, Pirkle

Sunset District and Pacific Ocean, San Francisco

Image 1951; Print 1968 USD 600.00 - 900.00 USD 1,250.00
238 Sugimoto, Hiroshi

U.A. Walker, New York

1978; print 2000 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 1,250.00
70 Adams, Ansel

Gerry Sharpe, Ouray, Colorado

1958; print; 1976 USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 USD 1,187.50
88 Caponigro, Paul

River Ice, Newton MA

1960; later print USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 USD 1,125.00
147 Sexton, John

White Branch, Merced River, Yosemite CA

1974; print: 1981 USD 500.00 - 800.00 USD 1,125.00
281 Shaw, Sam

Marilyn Monroe

1979 USD 700.00 - 1,000.00 USD 1,125.00
55 Taber, Isaiah West

Chinese Butcher & Grocery Shop

1887 USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 USD 1,062.50
177 Worth, Don

Water Drops, San Francisco, CA, 1960

1960; print: 1999 USD 700.00 - 1,000.00 USD 1,062.50
59 Watkins, Carleton E.

Alley, Chinese Quarter, San Francisco [with] Montgomery Street and Palace Hotel Street

c.1880 USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 937.50
73 Atget, Eugene

Eglise, Villiers-le-Bel, 1923

1923 USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 USD 937.50
75 Atget, Eugene

Statues-Colonnes, Saint Loup de Naud, Seine et Marne

1921 USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 USD 937.50
87 Caponigro, Paul

Northumberland, England, 1968

1968; print: 1975 USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 USD 937.50
120 Kertesz, Andre

Heavy Burden, Esztergom, Hungary

1915; Print 1980 USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 USD 937.50
121 Kertesz, Andre

Hungary

No date; print likely c.1980 USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 USD 937.50
167 Weston, Brett

Hawaii Landscape

1978 USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 USD 937.50
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