RR Auction: Fine Autographs & Artifacts

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Headquartered in Boston’s North End, RR Auction is a globally recognized and trusted source for rare documents, manuscripts, autographs, and historic artifacts. Since its inception in 1980, RR has achieved countless record-setting prices in over 425 successful sales, including Truman Capote’s hand-notated manuscript for Breakfast at Tiffany’s for over $300,000, President Kennedy’s 1963 convertible for $318,000, and a pair of Bonnie and Clyde’s guns for over $500,000. Internationally known and frequently featured in all media outlets—with appearances on NBC’s Today Show, CBS This Morning, Fox News, the New York Times Sunday Magazine, and the London Times—RR Auction prides itself on selling authentic material, thoroughly examined by in-house experts and third-party authenticators, to uphold the guarantee of authenticity. With a stunning full-color print catalog and a massive online presence, RR Auction continues to achieve record prices for clients around the world.
ALS - Autograph Letter Signed
ANS - Autograph Note Signed
AQS - Autograph Quotation Signed
AMQS - Autograph Musical Quotation Signed
DS - Document Signed
FDC - First Day Cover
Inscribed - “Personalized”
ISP - Inscribed Signed Photograph
LS - Letter Signed
SP - Signed Photograph
TLS - Typed Letter Signed
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Artists596 - Artists
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Collection of four items, each signed by a prominent American artist, including: Thomas Nast (signature), Ansel Adams (TLS), Charles Addams (signature
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Estimate : 200.00 - 400.00
 
 
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Johannes Baader597 - Johannes Baader
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Writer and artist associated with Dada in Berlin (1875–1955). ALS in pencil in German, signed “J. A. Baader,” one page on a 6 x 4 postcard depicting a
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Estimate : 600.00 - 800.00
 
 
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Edwin Blashfield598 - Edwin Blashfield
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American painter and muralist (1848–1936). ALS signed “E. H. Blashfield,” one page, 4.5 x 6.75, no date. Letter to his mother, in part: “I feel that I
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Alexander Calder599 - Alexander Calder
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ALS signed “Sandy Calder,” one page, 8.5 x 11, personal letterhead, December 29, 1949. Letter to Kaufmann, in full: “I am sorry to be late with his—bu
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Estimate : 400.00 - 600.00
 
 
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Marc Chagall600 - Marc Chagall
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Untranslated ALS in Yiddish, signed in blue ballpoint, one page on a 5.75 x 4 postcard, October 8, 1959. Letter to the American designer Boris Aronson
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Estimate : 800.00 - 1,000.00
 
 
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Edward S. Curtis601 - Edward S. Curtis
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Handsome pairing of photogravures of Native Americans, including: one entitled ‘Naemahlpunkuma-Hahuamis,’ 7.5 x 9.5, captioned along the bottom, ‘From
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Salvador Dali602 - Salvador Dali
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DS, one page, 8.5 x 11, January 5, 1965. Dali agrees to loan his sculpture, “Tete de Venus Oto Rhinologique, n.d.” to “The Gallery of Modern Art inclu
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Salvador Dali603 - Salvador Dali
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Signed book: Dali de Gala. Edita: Lausanne, 1962. Hardcover with dust jacket, 8.5 x 9.75, 227 pages. Signed and inscribed on the half-title page in bl
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Estimate : 5,000.00 - 6,000.00
 
 
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Edgar Degas604 - Edgar Degas
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ALS in French, signed “Degas,” one page, 4.5 x 5.5, postmarked May 12, 1900. Letter to his friend the journalist Pierre Lalo in Paris. In part (transl
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Estimate : 3,000.00 - 4,000.00
 
 
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Gustave Eiffel605 - Gustave Eiffel
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ALS in French, signed “G. Eiffel,” one page both sides, 5.25 x 4, personal letterhead, January 3, 1904. Letter to a gentleman. In full (translated):...
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Estimate : 1,000.00 - 1,500.00
 
 
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Eugene Delacroix606 - Eugene Delacroix
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French artist (1798–1863) who takes a place in the first rank of painters in the Romantic tradition and whose mastery of color and technique inspired
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Estimate : 1,000.00 - 1,500.00
 
 
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James Montgomery Flagg607 - James Montgomery Flagg
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An excellent pair of items: a pencil and watercolor sketch of a female Western gunslinger entitled “Pursuit of Gentlemen,” drawn by Flagg on an off-wh
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Estimate : 200.00 - 400.00
 
 
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Charles Garnier608 - Charles Garnier
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French architect (1825–1898) known for the Palais Garnier and the Opera de Monte-Carlo. Untranslated ALS in French, signed “Chas Garnier,” one page, 5
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Natalia Goncharova609 - Natalia Goncharova
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Russian avant-garde artist, painter, costume designer, writer, illustrator, and set designer (1881–1962). Rare ALS in French, one page on the reverse
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Estimate : 1,000.00 - 1,500.00
 
 
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Hugh Bolton Jones610 - Hugh Bolton Jones
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American landscape painter (1848–1927) revered for his realistic depictions of calm rural scenes of the eastern United States. ALS signed “H. Bolton J
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Edward Lear611 - Edward Lear
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British artist and writer (1812–1898) best known for his ‘nonsense’ books, which feature his quirky drawings and amusing verse. ALS, one page, 4.5 x 7
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Fernand Leger612 - Fernand Leger
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French artist (1881–1955) best known for his brightly colored, cubist and machine-age–influenced abstractions. ALS in French, signed “F. Leger,” one p
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Sol Lewitt613 - Sol Lewitt
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American artist (1928–2007) who attained widespread popularity in the late 1960s for his wall drawings and three-dimensional work. Original signed and
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Konstantin Makovsky614 - Konstantin Makovsky
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influential Russian painter (1839–1915) whose historical paintings portrayed an idealized view of past centuries. Postcard depicting the Moscow Kremli
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Jacques Lipchitz615 - Jacques Lipchitz
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Cubist sculptor (1891–1973) who counted Juan Gris, Pablo Picasso, and Amedeo Modigliani among his associates. ALS in Cyrillic, signed in Cyrillic, “J.
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Estimate : 2,000.00 - 2,500.00
 
 
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