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Lot 137 · Old Master Prints

Madison Avenue Looking Toward Time/Life Building, N.Y.C.; and Wedding Cake Hat on Times Square, N.Y.C.

Louis Faurer

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Estimate
$4,000–$6,000 hammer
Result
Performance
Sale
Christie's — Old Master Prints, London (South Kensington) · 2 December 1999
Record ID
TB-2026-6045471
Record
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Louis Faurer, Madison Avenue Looking Toward Time/Life Building, N.Y.C.; and Wedding Cake Hat on Times Square, N.Y.C. Christie's, 2 Dec 1999, lot 137. result recorded. TheBasis.Art, TB-2026-6045471.

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Louis Faurer, Madison Avenue Looking Toward Time/Life Building, N.Y.C.; and Wedding Cake Hat on Times Square, N.Y.C. Christie's, 2 Dec 1999, lot 137. result recorded. TheBasis.Art, TB-2026-6045471.

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From the same sale Old Master Prints · Dec 1999

LotArtistEstimateResult
Views of the Bear Valley Irrigation Company, Redlands, California PHOTOGRAPHER UNKNOWN, POSSIBLY F.H. MAUDE AND COMPANY $4,000–$6,000
The History of the Prodigal Son (B. 31-34; Holl. 1-4) Hans Sebald Beham £2,000–£3,000
The Weather Peasant (B. 188 + 189; P., Holl. 189 + 190) Hans Sebald Beham £700–£1,000
Landscapes (Holl. 3-8) Jan Van Goyen £1,200–£1,800
Three Plates, from: Views of the Harbour of Messina (Holl. 2, 4 & 10) Abraham Casembrot £500–£700
The little Courier (B. 80; M., Holl. 79; S.M.S. 10) Albrecht Dürer £1,500–£2,500

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