Corneliu Baba

Romanian · 1906–1997 · Painter, Draughtsman

Corneliu Baba was a Romanian painter, primarily a portraitist, but also known as a genre painter and an illustrator of books. (Wikipedia)

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378lots offered2015–2026years recorded88%sold (330)$1.9kSign up free to seemedian price

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Rege nebunArtmark · Dec 2022€60,000≈ $63,726≈ £51,717Sign up to see
ArlechinArtmark · Apr 2019€50,000≈ $56,505≈ £43,296Sign up to see
Scenă de gen (În casa negustorului)Artmark · Jun 2025€46,000≈ $52,799≈ £39,288Sign up to see

Corneliu Baba’s highest prices recorded at auction, ranked in US dollars at each sale-date exchange rate and shown in the currency of the sale (with the buyer’s premium where the house publishes it).

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Average price

$4.6kSign up free to see

median $1.9kfree account

High

$63.7kSign up free to see

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Lots sold

330

of 377 offered · 2015–2026

Sell-through

88%

sold ÷ offered

Price trend

Each dot is a sold lot (price realized incl. premium where published, converted to USD at the sale-date rate; log scale). Dashed line: yearly median.

1 lot(s) offered at auction whose result the house did not publish are listed under “Also offered” on the results tab and excluded from these statistics.

By medium

Medium	Offered	Sold	Sell-through	Average	Median	High
Paintings	124	89	72%	$11.8kSign up	$8.6kSign up	$63.7kSign up
Oil	122	87	71%	$12kSign up	$8.6kSign up	$63.7kSign up
Tempera	2	2	100%	$2.1kSign up	$2.1kSign up	$2.7kSign up
Works on paper	253	241	95%	$1.9kSign up	$1.3kSign up	$11.8kSign up
Watercolor	59	56	95%	$2.3kSign up	$1.5kSign up	$11.8kSign up
Gouache	40	37	93%	$2.7kSign up	$1.9kSign up	$10.1kSign up
Pastel	22	21	95%	$2kSign up	$1.4kSign up	$5.5kSign up
Drawing	107	104	97%	$1.5kSign up	$1.1kSign up	$4.7kSign up

Medium classes are derived from the medium text as published by each house; “Other” includes lots whose medium wasn’t stated.

By year

Year	Offered	Sold	Median
2026	26	26	$3.9kSign up
2025	36	34	$2.1kSign up
2024	22	21	$2.7kSign up
2023	33	24	$1.2kSign up
2022	21	18	$1.9kSign up
2021	60	56	$1.4kSign up
2020	20	20	$1.1kSign up
2019	36	34	$3kSign up
2018	32	27	$3.1kSign up
2017	47	38	$1.5kSign up
2016	32	24	$1.3kSign up
2015	12	8	$2.3kSign up