The IFPDA Print Fair opens tonight as the final event in a week of print sales that saw a Picasso print featured as one of the top lots in Christie’s Impressionist and Modern sale and made a record price for any single print. Those sales totaled $24m with a break down as follows:
Sotheby’s: $9,793,941: selling 72.5% by lot
Christie’s $9,231,275: selling 87% by lot and value
Swann Galleries: $2,763,140; 541 lots offered; 397 sold (27% buy-in rate by lot)
- 450** Jackson Pollock, Untitled, drypoint and engraving, circa 1944-45, inscribed “printed by Gabor Peterdi” and “2nd proof 1967,” $102,000 C
- 251* James A.M. Whistler, Finette, drypoint and etching on Japan paper, 1859, $84,000 D
- 125* Rembrandt van Rijn, Self Portrait Leaning on a Stone Sill, etching, 1639, $72,000 D
- 111* Rembrandt, The Descent from the Cross: Second Plate, etching and engraving, 1633, $69,000 C
- 331 Marc Chagall, Printemps au Pré, color lithograph, 1961, $66,000 C
- 136 Rembrandt, Landscape with a Cottage and a Large Tree, etching, 1641, $66,000 C
- 149 Rembrandt, Abraham’s Sacrifice, etching and drypoint, 1655, $55,200 C
- 263* Whistler, Garden, etching and drypoint, 1879-80, $50,400 D
- 332 Chagall, La Grand Bouquet, color lithograph, 1963, $45,600 C
- 139 Rembrandt, The Windmill, etching and drypoint, 1641, $45,600 C
Phillips de Pury: $2,379,900: selling 87% by value and 84% by lot.
- 56 RICHARD PRINCE, Cowboys and Girlfriends portfolio, $146,500
- 53 ROY LICHTENSTEIN, Roommates, from Nude Series, $122,500
- 64 AGNES MARTIN, On A Clear Day portfolio, $110,500
- 40 ANDY WARHOL, Grapes, $104,500
- 45 ANDY WARHOL, Shoes, $ 86,500
- 14 LYNN CHADWICK, Maquette IV Walking Woman, $72,100
- 21 CY TWOMBLY, Note I, $64,900
- 52 ROY LICHTENSTEIN, Forms in Space, $64,900
- 3 MARCEL DUCHAMP, L.H.O.O.Q. rasée (shaved), $60,000
- 22 CY TWOMBLY, Note II, $60,000
