Highlights include two paintings by Paul D. Miller (DJ Spooky); a prototype MGM lamp by Lapo Binazzi; an Animali Domestici Chair by Andrea Branzi; a photograph from Gordon Matta-Clark's series Splitting; a biker vest adorned with the ponytails of friends; a suite of Outsider furniture; and an early drawing by Ardeshir Mohassess. Results...

Jun 26, 2025

Highlights include a work of fax art by Lawrence Weiner to Michael Shamberg; a collection of Ca$h for Car$ signs; early graffiti sketches by REK; a presentation copy of Rene Ricard: 1979-1980 with drawing and inscription; a collection of rave flyers; Lung as Bratt by Richard Kern; 274 Morning Pages drawings; an unreleased single by The Del-Byzanteens with letter from Jim Jarmusch; an important press release published by Franklin Furnace Bookstore; a flyer and correspondence by Ray Johnson for the first Mail Art exhibition; and a collection of Seattle Grunge and Hardcore posters. Results...

Mar 26, 2025

A survey of Generative Art, from cybernetics and algorithmics, to software-aided design and synthetic media at the rise of computing, including the work of both pioneers and home enthusiasts. Highlights include works by Margot Lovejoy, Theresa Marie-Rhyne, Robert Mallary, Manfred Mohr, Esther Parada, Desmond Paul Henry, Aaron Marcus, Ken Knowlton, Timm Ulrichs, Copper Giloth, Harold Cohen (AARON), Mark Wilson, and Colette and Charles Bangert. Results...

Dec 15, 2024

Highlights include a rare lamp by Alessandro Mendini for Ambrogio Beretta's residence; a seven-board sligo chair; a Temperance Movement protest sign; rare ephemera and posters including Donna Dennis: Tourist Cabins and Subway Stations; a painting by Gary Lang; a model 1470 Soffiato vase by Vittorio Zecchin; and a collection of photographs of the origin of life. Results...

Sep 25, 2024

Highlights include a rare pair of Nee Chairs by Morphosis; Cinema of Transgression ephemera from the collection of Rachel Amodeo and M. Henry Jones; a collage by Carmen Winant; a Rammellzee print; photographs by Harry Callahan, Aaron Siskind, Stephen Shore, and John Dugdale; and works from the personal collection of Annina Nosei, including Titled (Art As Idea As Idea) [White] by Joseph Kosuth. Results...

Jul 17, 2024

Highlights include a stapled packet of thirty-six flyers published by ACT UP; avant-garde poetry, theater and film ephemera; international protest posters; New York Correspondence School mailers by Ray Johnson; Anarchy in the UK, No. 1; a print by Jonas Mekas; a chemise by Malick Sidibe; and a pair of 9/11 Truther dollar bills. Results...

May 19, 2024

Highlights include an A-Chair by Steven Holl; a set of prototypical candlesticks by Alessandro Mendini; a seascape painting by Henry Varnum Poor; three books from the library of Gilbert Rohde; a sculpture by Ann Lehman; and a Bridget Riley print. Results...

Mar 24, 2024

Highlights include flyers and posters from The Living Theatre; AIDS activism ephemera; a blank check from the checkbook of Joe Brainard; a David Wojnarowicz designed 3 Teens Kill 4 wheatpaste; a business card for Carol Gooden, Tina Girouard and Gordon Matta-Clark's 'Food Restaurant'; early No Wave flyers; and two handwritten notes by the drug dealing superintendent of an East Village building. Results...

Feb 28, 2024

Highlights include a stool by Gloria Kisch; an Astronomer's Chair by William Callaghan; a watercolor by Souleymane Keita; an African American vernacular hutch; a drawing by Mark Gonzales; and a rare chair by architect Bliss Moore Jr. Results...

Dec 13, 2023

Highlights include a Hannah Wilke drawing; Muzeum 51X invitations; Vaginal Davis flyers; a complete run of Public Illumination Magazine; Michael Alig handbills; Fashion Moda ephemera; and uncommon Queer publications. Results...

Dec 08, 2023

Highlights include a Beverly Pepper maquette; 'Mono-Corner' chair by Martino Gamper; a 'Democratic Chair' by William Coperthwaite; early works by Kwangho Lee; a prototypical Double SS Stool by Peter Macapia; a rare bowl by Dr. Peter Schlumbohm; and a sculpture by Richard Nonas. Results...

Dec 07, 2023

Fifty works on trash cans, hub caps, table leafs and dust jackets by Robert Loughlin, from the collection of Paul Johnson. The selection within expresses Loughlin's mastery of repetition as conceptual tool; a recurring dream, self-contextualizing with its given object, each of which acting as vital subtext for the work, the life, and the artist himself. Results...

Oct 25, 2023

A survey of posters, flyers and handbills from the New-Wave, No-Wave, Punk and Avant-Garde music, party, art and theater scenes of New York City, 1970-1990. Results...

Oct 01, 2023

Highlights include 'Piece' by Dan Graham for 'No. 7 Exhibition'; two paintings by Nicola L; a rare Spaziale lamp by Michele de Lucchi; a plywood chair from the W.P.A. Sewing Project of Portland, OR; an uncommon Brute by Robert Loughlin; and a scarce pair of transitional Westport chairs by Harry Bunnell. Results...

Jul 26, 2023

Highlights include an archive of uncommon No-Wave flyers; a melted telephone; an invitation to the first show of 'Icons' signed by Dan Flavin; doodles in books by Andy Warhol & Robert Motherwell; photographs by Stephen Shore, Larry Clark & Julius Shulman; and a Brute by Robert Loughlin. Results...

Apr 23, 2023

Highlights include an archive of drawings by Roger Stoller; an Esmeralda Chair by Nathalie Du Pasquier; a rare Donald Judd poster published by Green Gallery; a cheap skillet shot by a cop; and 'Parzival: a Chair with a Shadow' by Robert Wilson. Results...

Feb 19, 2023

Highlights include two early PVC vases by Enzo Mari; a collage by Niki de Saint Phalle; two works by the late solar gardener and hippie-modernist Leandre Poisson; a Gherpe Lamp by Superstudio; and a drawing by Donald Baechler. Results...

Dec 16, 2022

Highlights include a Karnak Illuminated Bookcase by James Hong; Jasper Johns' signed receipt from his lunch at The Met; Red Free by Howard Meister; a pair of Tito Lucifer andirons by Philippe Starck; and a gum sculpture by Hannah Wilke. Results...

Nov 18, 2022

Photographs: A Single Center is co-curated by Catalog Sale and Daniel/Oliver Gallery. This hundred lot sale is to be read as a whole, offering pedigreed and anonymous photographs without separation, in essayic sequence. Highlights include Distortion No, 92 by Andre Kertesz; a pair of anonymous prismatic photograms; New York, 1962 by Harry Callahan; a pair of multiply exposed real photo postcards; Study #34 by Robert Heinecken; and Parsley, an electrophotographic work by Walter Chappell. Results...

Oct 27, 2022

Highlights include vase #260 by E.J. Paulson for Teco; a copy of Animated Discourse by Guy de Cointet and Larry Bell; an early footed earthenware centerpiece by Henry Varnum Poor; a Quaderna table by Superstudio for Zanotta; and a Forato vase by Fulvio Bianconi for Venini. Results...

Aug 28, 2022

Highlights include a Shadow chair by Gaetano Pesce; a scarce Allan Kaprow handout; a mug by Magdalena Suarez Frimkess; Chair No. 21 by Rei Kawakubo for Comme des Garcons; and a suite of Charles Rohlfs armchairs. Results...

Jun 19, 2022

Highlights include a rare lamp base by Paul Laszlo; a drawing by Raymond Pettibon; a Westport chair by Thomas Lee/Harry Bunnell; a heaping shellac vessel; and a suite of anthropomorphic fixtures by Tim Daulton. Results...

Apr 10, 2022

Highlights include a pair of Shield Back Chairs by Thomas Hucker; a finely turned lignum vitae vessel; a pre-crop print of Contour Plowing by Margaret Bourke-White; a scarce printing of All of Ted Joans and No More by Ted Joans; and an uncommon pair of chairs by Warren McArthur. Results...

Feb 06, 2022

Highlights include a scarce copy of Pussywillow by Felipe Ehrenberg; a large Byron Browne bronze; an underground fetish archive; a Sol Lewitt drawing; a large Frank Owen painting; and an obsessively recorded archive of car crashes. Results...

Dec 05, 2021

Highlights include a chair by Peter Stamberg from Instant Furniture, an archive of counter-culture ephemera, a rare lamp by Terence Main, selections from the library of poets Sherry Redding and Karen Clahassey, and four drawings by Aref Rayess. Results...

Sep 26, 2021

Highlights include a large archive of self-taught erotic drawings, a rare Milo Baughman chest, a custom Stephen Burrows shirt, selections from the J.D. Martignon archives of Midnight Records, and Truisms (styrofoam cups) by Jenny Holzer. Results...