Week 3, 2025
Notable sales: Jan 13 – 19, 2025
In the week of Jan 13 – 19, 2025, ArtSell recorded 907 auction lots, of which 852 sold. The 852 sales with a published price total $5,742,643, with a median of $1,352. The top result was Joshua Reynolds, “MRS HARTLEY AS A NYMPH WITH THE YOUNG BACCHUS”, at $320,914 (Lyon & Turnbull, Jan 15, 2025). 10 artists set a new high compared with every earlier result in the database.
Top 25 results
- $320,914 (£262,700)
- $305,644 (£250,200)
- Untitled (Point as Set), c. 1970$203,200
- $143,782 (£117,700)
- $89,400
- $82,702 (£67,700)
- Untitled (Fusion), c. 1975$82,550
- $82,550
- $79,404 (£65,000)
- Tuesday, 1987$76,700
- $76,200
- $75,000
- $70,486 (£57,700)
- $62,400
- Conoid chairs, set of ten, 1976, 1987$60,960
- $57,150
- $54,600
- Kent Hall floor lamp, 1972$53,340
- Belvedere (Bool 426), 1958$51,200
- Conoid bench, 1963$50,800
- Deep Relief cabinet, model PE-42, c. 1970$50,800
- $50,800
- $45,199 (£37,000)
- $44,450
- $43,000 (£35,200)
New artist records
The artist’s best price this week exceeded every earlier priced result for them in the ArtSell database (artists with at least three earlier priced results).
| Artist | Work | Price | Previous high |
|---|---|---|---|
| Joshua Reynolds | MRS HARTLEY AS A NYMPH WITH THE YOUNG BACCHUS | $320,914 | $4,536 (19 earlier) |
| Claire Falkenstein | Untitled (Point as Set) | $203,200 | $201,600 (124 earlier) |
| Manoucher Yektai | Untitled | $75,000 | $48,685 (7 earlier) |
| George Romney | EMMA HAMILTON AS MIRANDA | $70,486 | $54,891 (21 earlier) |
| Duncan Grant | STILL LIFE WITH FLOWERS | $43,000 | $25,500 (35 earlier) |
| Roger Fry | THE DANCERS, c.1910 | $43,000 | $23,298 (9 earlier) |
| Jere Osgood | Spring occasional tables, pair | $35,560 | $16,250 (4 earlier) |
| Eileen Agar | LEDA AND THE SWAN | $23,088 | $2,557 (3 earlier) |
| Adrien Étienne Gaudez | PAIR OF BRONZE BUSTS OF TURKISH PRINCESSES | $20,010 | $5,181 (29 earlier) |
| Ceri Richards | COSTERWOMAN, 1939 | $13,853 | $5,189 (18 earlier) |
Most active artists
Artists with the most priced sales this week.
George Nakashima (41 sold · $1.1M)Pieter Bruegel the Elder (20 sold · $314k)Paul Delvaux (15 sold · $31k)John Piper (14 sold · $60.9k)Pierre Jeanneret (11 sold · $176k)Mark Spencer (9 sold · $9.9k)Albert Paley (7 sold · $50k)Toshiko Takaezu (7 sold · $102k)Pedro Friedeberg (6 sold · $30.3k)Michaela Meise (6 sold · $3.2k)
Generated from the auction results recorded in ArtSell for sales held Jan 13 – 19, 2025 (by sale date). Prices are converted to USD at the sale-date rate; the original currency is shown in brackets. Results that houses publish later are added as they arrive. ArtSell is a database of auction results; it does not authenticate or value works.