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Duane Michals (American, b. 1932) Portrait of Andy Warhol (triptych), 1973 Gelatin silver prints 3-1/2 x 5 inches (8....

Duane Michals (American, b. 1932) Portrait of Andy Warhol (triptych), 1973 Gelatin silver prints 3-1/2 x 5 inches (8....

Auction amount: $7,000.00

Sold: Apr 4, 2023

Duane Michals (American, b.b. 1932)

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Duane Michals (American, b. 1932)
Portrait of Andy Warhol (triptych), 1973
Gelatin silver prints
3-1/2 x 5 inches (8.9 x 12.7 cm) (images)
5 x 7 inches (sheets)
The first sheet signed, titled, dated, and editioned 9/25 in ink, lower margin recto. Subsequent sheets numbered 2 and 3 in ink, upper margin recto.

Property from the Collection of Dr. Paul A. Greenberg

Auction 8128 | Lot: 73173 | Apr 4, 2023

Sold For: $7,000.00

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$10,500 or more
Duane Michals (American, b. 1932)
The Young Girl's Dream (5 works), 1969
Gelatin silver prints
3-1/2 x 5-1/4 inches (8.9 x 13.3 cm) (images)
5 x 7 inches (sheets)
First image signed, titled, and editioned 12/25 in ink, upper and lower margins, recto. Subsequent sheets numbered sequentially in ink, upper margin recto.

Property from the Collection of Dr. Paul A. Greenberg

Auction 8128 | Lot: 73171 | Apr 4, 2023

Sold For: $5,500.00
Duane Michals (American, b. 1932)
Back Talk, 1970
Four gelatin silver prints framed together
3-1/4 x 5-1/8 inches (8.4 x 13 cm) (each)
Signed, titled, dated, numbered, and editioned '3/25' in ink margin recto.

Auction 5272 | Lot: 73209 | Oct 27, 2016

Sold For: $5,000.00
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Duane Michals (American, 1932)
The Captive Child, 1976
Gelatin silver print
4-3/4 x 7 inches (12.1 x 17.8 cm) (image)
8 x 10 inches (sheet)
Photographer's stamp, verso. Inscribed with text by the artist in ink, upper and lower margins, recto.

Auction 8053 | Lot: 73174 | Oct 8, 2021

Sold For: $4,625.00

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$6,938 or more
Duane Michals (American, 1932)
Trust (Sequence), 1980s
Gelatin silver contact sheet in 11 parts on cardboard
11-1/2 x 14-3/4 inches (29.2 x 37.5 cm) (cardboard mount)
Signed and titled in ink, mount recto.

Auction 8071 | Lot: 73423 | May 24, 2022

Sold For: $4,250.00
Duane Michals (American, b. 1932)
Death Comes to the Old Lady (5 works), 1969
Gelatin silver prints
3-3/8 x 5 inches (8.6 x 12.7 cm) (image)
5 x 7-1/8 inches (sheet)
Signed, titled, and editioned 11/25 in ink on the first image. Each subsequent sheet numbered out of 5 in ink, upper margin recto.

Property from the Collection of Dr. Paul A. Greenberg
(Total: 5)
Auction 8128 | Lot: 73172 | Apr 4, 2023

Sold For: $3,000.00

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$4,500 or more
DUANE MICHALS (American, b. 1932)
Necessary Things for Writing Fairy Tunes, 1989
Cibachrome
16 x 20 inches (40.6 x 50.8 cm)
Signed and editioned '5/25' lower center; initialed and inscribed '056' in pencil on verso.

PROPERTY OF THE PROP FOUNDATION TO SUPPORT THEIR CHARITIES

Auction 5210 | Lot: 74213 | May 3, 2015

Sold For: $2,750.00
Duane Michals (American, 1932)
Untitled (from The Indomitable Spirit series), 1989
Gelatin silver print
4-7/8 x 7-1/4 inches (12.4 x 18.4 cm) (image)
11 x 14 inches (sheet)
Signed and editioned 41/50 in ink, lower margin recto.

Auction 8053 | Lot: 73311 | Oct 8, 2021

Sold For: $2,750.00
Duane Michals (American, b. 1932)
Many Moons, 1989
Gelatin silver
7 x 9-1/4 inches (17.8 x 23.5 cm)
Signed and editioned '3/25' in ink in lower margin recto.

Auction 5376 | Lot: 73333 | Oct 12, 2018

Sold For: $2,500.00
Duane Michals (American, b. 1932)
The Annunciation, circa 1975
Gelatin silver print
4-7/8 x 7 inches (12.4 x 17.8 cm) (image)
8 x 9-7/8 inches (sheet)
Signed, titled, and editioned 5/25 in ink, lower margin recto.

Auction 8128 | Lot: 73170 | Apr 4, 2023

Sold For: $2,500.00

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$3,750 or more
Duane Michals (American, b. 1932)
Miss Kitty Thought She was Pretty, 1989
Gelatin silver
7 x 9-1/2 inches (17.8 x 24.1 cm)
Signed and editioned '3/25' in ink in lower margin recto.

Auction 5376 | Lot: 73334 | Oct 12, 2018

Sold For: $2,375.00
Duane Michals (American, b. 1932)
Portrait of Roger and Shelley (series of five photographs), circa 1975
Gelatin silver
3-1/4 x 5 inches (8.3 x 12.7 cm) (each)
Each signed in ink lower center, titled upper left, and numbered upper margin recto.
Auction 5376 | Lot: 73329 | Oct 12, 2018

Sold For: $2,250.00
Duane Michals (American, b. 1932)
The Man who Ran Ahead of His Time, 1989
Gelatin silver
6-1/2 x 9-3/4 inches (16.5 x 24.8 cm)
Signed and editioned '3/25' in ink in lower margin recto.

Auction 5376 | Lot: 73332 | Oct 12, 2018

Sold For: $2,125.00
Duane Michals (American, b. 1932)
Untitled (two photographs), 1975
Gelatin silver
3-1/4 x 5 inches (8.3 x 12.7 cm)
Signed in ink lower margin of right image.

Auction 5376 | Lot: 73330 | Oct 12, 2018

Sold For: $2,000.00
Duane Michals (American, b. 1932)
Untitled (Man and Serpent) (from Eros & Thanatos), 1992
Platinum print
8-3/4 x 13-1/4 inches (22.2 x 33.7 cm) (image)
9 x 13-1/2 inches (sheet)
Signed in ink, and with publisher's stamp, mount recto.

Auction 8220 | Lot: 73152 | Oct 3, 2025

Sold For: $1,875.00
Duane Michals (American, 1932)
Upside Down, Inside Out and Backwards, 1989
Gelatin silver print
6-1/2 x 9-7/8 inches (16.5 x 25.0 cm) (image)
16 x 20 inches (sheet)
Inscribed extensively in ink, lower margin recto.

Auction 14222 | Lot: 38080 | Mar 12, 2025

Sold For: $1,875.00
Duane Michals (American, 1932)
Portrait of Pasolini, 1969
Gelatin silver print
6-3/4 x 9-7/8 inches (17.1 x 25.1 cm) (image)
16 x 20 inches (sheet)
Signed, titled, and editioned 6/25 in ink, lower margin recto.

Auction 8053 | Lot: 73225 | Oct 8, 2021

Sold For: $1,875.00
Duane Michals (American, b. 1932)
Young Men Dream in the Garden of the Dead with Flowers Growing from Their Heads, 1995
Gelatin silver
10-1/2 x 15-3/4 inches (26.7 x 40.0 cm)
Signed, titled, and editioned '1/25' in ink in lower margin.

Auction 191836 | Lot: 12048 | Jul 25, 2018

Sold For: $1,750.00

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$3,150 or more
Duane Michals (American, b. 1932)
Illuminated Man (from the Year of Tibet Portfolio II), 1986
Platinum Palladium print, printed later
8-5/8 x 12-7/8 inches (21.9 x 32.7 cm) (image)
13 x 16 inches (sheet)
Signed and editioned AP 7/24 in pencil, lower margin recto.
Published by Tibet House, New York

Auction 14225 | Lot: 39073 | Jun 11, 2025

Sold For: $1,625.00

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$2,438 or more
Duane Michals (American, b. 1932)
Kosmos, circa 1980s
Gelatin silver print
10-1/2 x 15-1/2 inches (26.7 x 39.4 cm) (image)
16 x 19-1/2 inches (sheet)
Signed, titled, editioned 2/25, and inscribed in ink, lower margin recto.

Auction 8158 | Lot: 73102 | Apr 30, 2024

Sold For: $1,625.00

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$2,438 or more
Duane Michals (American, b. 1932)
When I Say This is Now, It Immediately Becomes Then, 1980s
Gelatin silver print
4-3/4 x 7 inches (12.1 x 17.8 cm) (image)
8 x 10 inches (sheet)
Inscribed in ink, lower margin recto.

Auction 14221 | Lot: 39035 | Feb 12, 2025

Sold For: $1,500.00
Duane Michals (American, b. 1932)
Banana and Room at the Hotel Earle, 1980
Gelatin silver print and oil
7-1/2 x 9 inches (19.1 x 22.9 cm) (image and painting)
Signed, titled, and dated in ink verso.

Auction 5409 | Lot: 73266 | Apr 6, 2019

Sold For: $1,375.00
Duane Michals (American, b. 1932)
Fireflies in My Hand, 1972
Gelatin silver print
4-3/4 x 7 inches (12.1 x 17.8 cm) (image)
8 x 10 inches (sheet)
Signed, titled, dated, and editioned 4/25 in ink, lower margin recto.

Auction 8195 | Lot: 73276 | Apr 30, 2025

Sold For: $1,250.00

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$1,875 or more
Duane Michals (American, b. 1932)
Untitled from the Indomitable Spirit Portfolio
Gelatin silver
4-7/8 x 7-1/4 inches (12.4 x 18.4 cm)
Signed and editioned '42/50' in ink lower margin recto.

Auction 8014 | Lot: 73267 | Oct 6, 2020

Sold For: $1,187.50

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$1,781 or more
Duane Michals (American, b. 1932)
Warren Beatty, 1965
Gelatin silver
4-7/8 x 7-1/8 inches (12.4 x 18.1 cm)
Signed, titled, and dated in ink with the photographer's stamp in margin recto.
Auction 5328 | Lot: 73246 | Oct 11, 2017

Sold For: $1,125.00
Duane Michals (American, b. 1932)
A Tribute to Cavafy (complete with 5 works), 2003
Photogravures, printed by John Goodman
18 x 14 inches (45.7 x 35.6 cm) (sheets)
Each signed, titled, and editioned 38/50 in pencil, mount recto.
Published by The Limited Editions Club, New York.

Auction 14229 | Lot: 39160 | Oct 8, 2025

Sold For: $1,062.50

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$1,594 or more
Duane Michals (American, b. 1932)
Untitled (Male Portrait) (from Eros & Thanatos), 1992
Platinum print
7-1/2 x 11-1/4 inches (19.1 x 28.6 cm) (image/sheet)
Signed in ink, and with publisher's stamp, mount recto.

Auction 8220 | Lot: 73148 | Oct 3, 2025

Sold For: $937.50
Duane Michals (b. 1932)
I Like Pussy
Gelatin silver print
16 x 18-1/4 inches (40.6 x 46.4 cm) (sheet)
Ed. 1/25
Signed and numbered in ink lower right

Auction 18161 | Lot: 40067 | Nov 18, 2020

Sold For: $937.50

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$1,476 or more
Duane Michals (American, b. 1932)
Untitled (From the Indomitable Spirit Portfolio), 1989
Gelatin silver
4-7/8 x 7-1/4 inches (12.4 x 18.4 cm)
Signed and editioned '36/50' in ink lower margin recto.

Auction 191850 | Lot: 14107 | Nov 28, 2018

Sold For: $937.50
Jan Saudek (Czech, b. 1935)
Soul leaves the body (Tribute to Duane Michals)
Gelatin silver
12 x 11 inches (30.5 x 27.9 cm)
Signed in ink lower right recto; signed, titled, and dedicated to Duane Michals in ink on verso.

Auction 5272 | Lot: 73196 | Oct 27, 2016

Sold For: $625.00

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$938 or more
21st Editions
The Journal of Contemporary Photography Volume 1: "The Transcendent Vision" Deluxe Edition, 1998
15 hand-pulled bound photogravures by Jon Goodman
16-7/8 x 14-3/4 inches (42.9 x 37.5 cm) (images)
Signed in pencil on the limitation page by Bernard Faucon, Michael Kenna, Luis González Palma, Keith Carter, Holly Wright, Sandy Skoglund, Mark Klett, Jock Sturges, Duane Michals, Ernestine Rubin, Patrick Mailly-Maître-Grand, Willie Middlebrook, John Metoyer, Olivia Parker, Steven Albahari and Leonard Baskin. Editioned 114/235. Published by Leo & Wolfe Photography, Inc.

Auction 8178 | Lot: 73302 | Oct 1, 2024

Sold For: $625.00

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$938 or more
Duane Michals (American, b. 1932)
Miss Kitty Thought She Was Pretty, 1989
Gelatin silver print
7-1/8 x 9-3/4 inches (18.2 x 24.8 cm) (image)
16 x 20 inches (sheet)
Inscribed extensively in ink, lower margin recto.

Auction 14222 | Lot: 38043 | Mar 12, 2025

Sold For: $550.00
Duane Michals (American, b. 1932)
Mary McFadden, Fashion Ad, 1976
Gelatin silver
13-1/2 x 9-1/8 inches (34.3 x 23.2 cm)

Auction 5272 | Lot: 73637 | Oct 27, 2016

Sold For: $500.00

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$750 or more

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