Contemporary, Fine, Folk and Outsider Art - Online

Date(s)
Wednesday, December 3rd, 2025
Street Address

Potter & Potter Auctions, Inc.
5001 W. Belmont Avenue
Chicago, IL 60641

Potter & Potter Auctions Sale 1225:  Our Contemporary, Fine, Folk, and Outsider Art sale features works from all time periods and categories. The sale includes 22 lots by the well-known Outsider artist Purvis Young. Other Outsider works include major works by Lee Godie with attached elements including a photo sewn to canvas with the artist’s hair. The sale continues with lots associated with Charles and Ray Eames, and prints by Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg and Howard Hodgkin. In Fine Art we offer water themed works by Paul Lauritz, a schooner by Howard Sprague and The Rush Gatherer - Kutenai orotone by Edward Curtis. In Folk Art we have two exceptional 20th century examples of tattoo flash, an exceptional wood carved and painted ventriloquist dummy, and two intricate marquetry tables along with much more in all categories.

AUCTION HIGHLIGHTS

CONTEMPORARY
Lot 7: Charles White. Joven (Youth). est: $4,000-6,000
Lot 46: Joe Coleman. Original illustration from The Mystery of Wolverine Woo-Bait. est: $3,000-5,000
Lot 126: Louis Bourgeois. Jitterbug. est: $6,000-8,000

FINE
Lot 174: Shinsui Ito. Eyebrow Pencil. est: $1,000-2,000
Lot 303: Howard F. Prague. Zach Taylor. est: $4,000-6,000
Lot 384: Zani Jacobsen. Damen & Division. est: $800-1,200

OUTSIDER
Lot 414: Lee Godie. Smiles. est: $2,000-3,000
Lot 422: Jesse Howard. Thank God for Knowledge. Genesis. est: $2,000-3,000
Lot 427: Mose Tolliver. Untitled (Green Shirt). est: $800-1,200

FOLK
Lot 455: Tattoo Flash, Signed Leroy, 1941. est: $1,000-2,000
Lot 465: Parquetry/ Marquetry Table with a Circular Top. est: $1,000-2,000
Lot 487: Carnival Head. est: $800-1,200

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Contemporary, Fine, Folk and Outsider Art - Online

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