Past Auctions

Vito Hannibal Acconci (American 1940 – 2011)
“Skating the Building”
Collage on paper with Acconci’s handwritten notes “turn the building into a support for the half-pipes and ramps onto the building into the building through the building…”
Signed Acconci Studio: Skate Park
33″ x 38 1/2″
Provenance: purchased from White Columns, New York, 2001 ($7,500)
Condition: under glass, abrasion to lower center, slightly bowed paper, appears to be taped on verso

Realized Price: $2,560

Estimate: $4000 - $8000

Tiffany and Company 18K Yellow Gold Pocket Watch
having separate second hand dial, dial marked Tiffany and Company Geneva Works, signed Tiffany and Company Geneva No. 9126, inside cover marked Grace E. Kooper from Sallie December 25th 1876
43.6mm, total weight 78.5 grams

Estimate: $3000 - $4000

Karl Bodmer (Swiss 1809-1893)
“Mandeh-Pachu, A Young Mandan Indian (Eagle’s Beak)”, 1844
Finely hand-colored aquatint and line engraving depicting a Mandan youth adorned in elaborate tribal regalia with hair ornaments, shell jewelry, and a fur robe, rendered with remarkable ethnographic accuracy
From Travels in the Interior of North America (Coblenz, Paris, and London, 1844)
Printed by Bougeard; published by Ackermann & Co., London
Bodmer blindstamp in lower margin; English, German, and French inscriptions below image
13 1/2″ x 10 1/2″ plate size
Provenance: Gifted to The Bronx Historical Society by the Estate of Joan Schneeweiss
William Graham Arader III, Pennsylvania

Estimate: $800 - $1200