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- Estimate
- $30,000–$40,000 hammer
- Result
- Performance
- Sale
- Sotheby's — Contemporary Curated, New York · 29 September 2016
- Record ID
- TB-2026-4506056
- Record
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Gene Davis, Black Dahlia. Sotheby's, 29 Sep 2016, lot 137. result recorded. TheBasis.Art, TB-2026-4506056.
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Gene Davis, Black Dahlia. Sotheby's, 29 Sep 2016, lot 137. result recorded. TheBasis.Art, TB-2026-4506056.
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|---|---|---|---|
| Personnage XVII | Jean Dubuffet | $18,000–$22,000 | |
| Untitled | Larry Poons | $50,000–$70,000 | |
| El Paso to Miami | Ed Ruscha | $200,000–$300,000 | |
| Red and Blue | Howard Mehring | $10,000–$15,000 | |
| situations. ten situational sculptures at the dwan gallery, 1969 and 1970 | Fred Sandback | $35,000–$45,000 | |
| love is gone - so what can matter? 1966 | Mcdermott & Mcgough | $25,000–$35,000 |
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|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gene Davis | Coffin Corner | $63,500 | Sotheby's, Mar 2023 | |
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| Gene Davis | fireball | Sotheby's, Mar 2018 | ||
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| Gene Davis | Fugue for Dandelions | Rago, May 2022 | ||
| Gene Davis | Queen's Gate | Sotheby's, Mar 2022 | ||
| Gene Davis | Untitled | Rago, May 2022 | ||
| Gene Davis | Tulip | Sotheby's, Nov 2021 |
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