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Auction result
Untitled (John Brown)
Kara Walker (American, b. 1969) · 1997
Unsold / did not meet reserve
Estimate $3,000 – $5,000 (≈ £2,387 – £3,979) (≈ €2,792 – €4,653)
Offered at Phillips and passed / bought in. Counted in the artist’s sell-through rate; no price, so not in price averages.
Auction history of this work: offered 2 times ↓
- Medium
- Etching · Prints & multiples all etching results →As published: “Etching and aquatint, on Mulberry Chine collé to Rives BFK paper, with full margins”
- Support
- Paper
- Edition
- 24/35
- Signed / inscribed
- Signed with initials · Kara Walker signature
- Category
- Etchings
- Dimensions
- I. 11 7/8 x 8 7/8 in. (30.2 x 22.5 cm) S. 17 7/8 x 15 in. (45.4 x 38.1 cm)
- Auction house
- Phillips
- Sale
- Editions & Works on Paper: Online Auction (NY030523)
- Date
- September 6, 2023
- Location
- New York
- Lot
- 73
- Estimate
- $3,000 – $5,000 (≈ £2,387 – £3,979) (≈ €2,792 – €4,653)
- Source
- Auction house phillips.com ↗Retrieved Sep 26, 2026
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Provenance trail: auction history of this work
Offered twice between 2023 and 2024 · sold 0 · bought in / unsold 2
Catalogue details differ between appearances (title). Houses often re-measure, translate or re-catalogue a work; compare the entries below.
Sep 6, 2023 · Phillips this result
Editions & Works on Paper: Online Auction, lot 73
Bought in / unsold · est. $3,000 – $5,000
As catalogued
Kara Walker, “Untitled (John Brown)”, 1997
Etching and aquatint, on Mulberry Chine collé to Rives BFK paper, with full margins
I. 11 7/8 x 8 7/8 in. (30.2 x 22.5 cm) S. 17 7/8 x 15 in. (45.4 x 38.1 cm)
Edition 24/35
Feb 15, 2024 · Phillips
Editions & Works on Paper, lot 42
Bought in / unsold · est. $3,000 – $5,000
As catalogued
Kara Walker, “Untitled (John Brown) (L.P. KW-96-05D)”, 1997
Etching and aquatint, on Mulberry Chine collé to Rives BFK paper, with full margins
I. 11 7/8 x 8 7/8 in. (30.2 x 22.5 cm) S. 17 7/8 x 15 in. (45.4 x 38.1 cm)
Edition 24/35
Appearances are linked when the photographs match and the size, medium and title agree (match confidence 89%). Casts and prints are linked only when the cast or impression number also matches. Price changes compare each sold price with the previous one (in USD at each sale’s exchange rate when the currencies differ). Details are shown as each house published them.
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