Photo © Phillips — view this lot on Phillips ↗Red Roses April 5 2001, 2001
Oil · Board
Phillips · Sep 21, 2026$20,640 ≈ £15,409 ≈ €17,963Sign up free to see price
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Auction result
Black Lemons
Donald Sultan (American, b. 1951) · 1987
Unsold / did not meet reserve
Estimate $1,800 – $2,500 (≈ £1,333 – £1,852) (≈ €1,534 – €2,131)
Offered at Phillips and passed / bought in. Counted in the artist’s sell-through rate; no price, so not in price averages.
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- Medium
- Aquatint · Prints & multiples all aquatint results →As published: “Aquatint, on wove paper, with full margins”
- Support
- Paper
- Edition
- 12/17
- Signed / inscribed
- Signed with initials · Donald Sultan signature
- Category
- Aquatints
- Dimensions
- I. 62 1/4 x 47 1/2 in. (158.1 x 120.7 cm) S. 63 x 48 3/4 in. (160 x 123.8 cm)
- Auction house
- Phillips
- Sale
- Editions & Works on Paper (NY030326)
- Date
- April 22, 2026
- Location
- New York, United States
- Lot
- 270
- Estimate
- $1,800 – $2,500 (≈ £1,333 – £1,852) (≈ €1,534 – €2,131)
- Source
- Auction house phillips.com ↗Retrieved Sep 25, 2026
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