Hollywood Auction 40
All 1,847 lots of Profiles in History: Hollywood Auction 40 (Jun 12, 2010). 1,558 sold, 86% sell-through. Top lot $310,000. Prices and results of every lot.
Auction facts
- Auction house
- Profiles in History
- Date
- 2010-06-12
- Location
- Calabasas, CA
- Lots offered
- 1,847
Lots
- Lot 25: Roy Eldridge signed portrait, handwritten letter and business card
- Lot 26: Duke Ellington signed portrait and program for the 1941 premiere of Jump for Joy
- Lot 27: 1937 The Cotton Club program signed by Duke Ellington, Ethel Waters and others
- Lot 28: Duke Ellington Band portrait and signed postcard
- Lot 29: Pair of jazz LPs signed by Bill Evans
- Lot 30: George Gershwin signed portrait
- Lot 31: Johnny Green and Coleman Hawkins signed portraits
- Lot 32: Lady Sings the Blues inscribed and signed by Billie Holiday
- Lot 33: Collection of jazz autographs, James P. Johnson, Mary Lou Williams and others
- Lot 34: Collection of autographs of Willie Bunk Johnson and Alton Purnell
- Lot 35: Collection of Teddy McRae signed recording and royalty contracts
- Lot 36: Lucky Millinder and the Mills Blue Rhythm Band signed portraits
- Lot 37: Collection of Mills Brothers autographs
- Lot 38: Charles Mingus signed portrait
- Lot 39: Modern Jazz Quartet signed portrait and card
- Lot 40: Thelonious Monk signed portrait
- Lot 41: The Montgomery Brothers signed card
- Lot 42: Phil Napoleon signed contracts
- Lot 43: Charlie Parker signed High Hat Club napkin
- Lot 44: Les Paul signed sheet music, music release form and portrait
- Lot 45: Cole Porter signed sheet music for What Is This Thing Called Love? Cole Porter’s What Is This Thing Called Love? From the musical comedy Wake Up and Dream, Quarto, signed in blue ink on the front cover, “Cole Porter”
- Lot 46: Gertrude “Ma” Rainey signed recording contract for Shave ‘Em Dry Blues
- Lot 47: Jimmy Reed and Big Mama Thornton signed contracts
- Lot 48: Sheet music for All the Way signed by Frank Sinatra, Sammy Cahn and Jimmy Van Heusen. Sheet music for All the Way from the film The Joker Is Wild