Expensive Bar Doodles on the Block

Many moons ago Burt Britton, a former bartender at the Village Vanguard, began collecting portraits drawn by writers and other famous folk keeping the barstools warm (Kurt Vonnegut and Allen Ginsberg amongst them). Today they go on auction at Bloomsbury Auctions (check 'em out).

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Pretty cool but they need to drop the last zero from the estimate...way overpriced. Did any of these actually sell?
All of the ones I clicked on came up as unsold.

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