Rare Edward Hopper print The Lonely House fetched record auction price @SwannGalleries

The Edward Hopper etching The Lonely House was the star lot going into the sale and in the live auction last night. The print sold for $310,000 vaulting past its pre auction estimate of $150,000-$200,000.

Hopper’s Les Poilus circa 1915 surpassed its $15000-$20,000 pre-sale estimate as well, selling for $42,500. I’ve sold an impression of the Lonely House before but I’ve only scene Les Poilus in the Whitney collection.

The sale featured Old Master through Modern prints by American and European artists.

Here’s a link to the Swann Galleries catalogue for the November 4th 2017 sale 2460 and the Swann Galleries auction results. Images in this post are from Swann Galleries.

Besides Edward Hopper, there were prints by artists with Gloucester connections (or topics of interest such as a 1680 engraving of a beached whale).

Childe Hassam Inner Harbor Gloucester 1919 etching sold for $3750

Stow Wengenroth The quiet hour lithograph sold for $12500

Stow Wengenroth High Arches Brooklyn Bridge 1960 litho ed 50 sold for $16250

Kent Man at Mast wood engraving sold for $5500

Lozowick Tanks #1 1929 lithograph ed50 sold for $2750 est 3 to $5000

Will Barnet Bowling Alley scene 1934 litho ed less than 10 sold at Swann for $1375. candlepin?! jk

ASTRONOMY CLUB daniel and hieronymus hopfer collection ca 1515 to 1530 including ecclesiastical and secular metal work unsold

Albrecht Durer The Sea Monster before 1500 sold for 50000 at Swann Auction

John Sloan Conoisseurs of Prints 1912 ed 80 proposed ed 100 $1875

Louis Lozowick 57th Street 1929 lithograph ed 40 sold $10625

Records were achieved for other prints like Martin Lewis, Relics, $55,000

a rare Odilon Redon 1892 lithograph sold for $47,500

and a Rembrandt 1631 etching, Self portrait with Cap Pulled Forward, that sold for $65,000.

See more highlights below the “read more” break from the nearly 500 prints that were sold at the November Swann Galleries auction.

Head to the Cape Ann museum Fitz Henry Lane exhibition Drawn from Nature and on Stone: The lithgraphs of Fitz Henry Lane to experience a great print show in person.

TISSOT La Tamise 1876 drypoint and etching from edition about 100 $3500

Martin Lewis aquatint Cronies sold for $4500

Samuel Margolies Men of Steel AAA tiny gorgeous sold for $4750 under estimate 5 to 8000

Hendrick Goltzius Dragon Devouring Companions of Cadmus engraving 1588 sold at Swann Galleries 10625

Matisse linocut sold under estimate

John Taylor Arms West 42nd Street

grant Wood February $4750 litho

Rockwell Kent wood engraving the Lovers sold for $11,250

henri Toulouse Lautrec 1894 color lithograph ed100 Aux Ambassadeurs Chanteuse au Cafe Concert sold $18750 Swann

Edgar Degas Au Louvre La Peinture Mary Cassatt etching aquatint drypoint 21st state ed 150 sold for $4750

Hendrick Goltzius Descent of Damned into Hell ca 1578 engraving sold 3750 at Swann Galleries

Martin Lewis Snow on the El sold for 37500 swann galleries

Felix Vallotton La Manifestation woodcut 1893 ed100 fetched $6500

Giovanni B Piranesi The Round Tower ca1749 sold 6750 at Swann Galleries

Renoir Le Chapeau Epingle color lithograph 1898 printed by auguste Clot and published by Vollard. Sold at Swann Galleries $35000

John Taylor Arms Shadows of Venice 1930 ed140 sold for $938

later Will Barnet 4000

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Riggs is amazing. Robert Riggs Accident Ward litho ca1940 ed approx 50 unsold est 1000 to 1500

after Pieter Bruegel The Fall of the Magician Hermogenes engraving 1565 by Pieter van der Heyden sold Swann $18750

George bellows Introducnig Georges Carpentier ed50 1921 litho carpentier dempsey boxing fight sold for $8125

girolamo faguiuloli after perino del vaga fall of the giants jupiter in the clouds overhead striking the giants with lightning ca1539 sold $1875 at Swann galleries

Sleep of Reason one print from GOYA 1799 seminal Los Caprichos 80 etchings with aquatint proposed edition of 300 sold 27 thru bookstores and then yanked them for fear sold $106250 Swann Galleries missing 1

durer Christ Among the Doctors ca 1503 WOODCUT sold $6500 at Swann Galleries

Christopher RW Nevinson 1917 litho making the engine sold for $8125

Selection of prints that failed to sell

Diego Rivera El nino with taco did not sell est 10 to 15000

ASTRONOMY CLUB daniel and hieronymus hopfer collection ca 1515 to 1530 including ecclesiastical and secular metal work unsold

Childe Hassam The Dutch Door (Cos Cob CT) etching 1915 UNSOLD est 15 to $20,000

George Stubbs A Sleeping Cheetah mezzotint 1788 2nd state of 2 UNSOLD est 20 to 30,000

Hieronymus Bosch after 1561 engraving by Doetecum unsold at Swann est 40 to 60 thousand