Week 6, 2025
Notable sales: Feb 3 – 9, 2025
In the week of Feb 3 – 9, 2025, ArtSell recorded 895 auction lots, of which 745 sold. The 739 sales with a published price total $2,726,655, with a median of $1,169. The top result was George Nakashima, “DOUBLE SLIDING DOOR CABINET”, at $76,700 (Bonhams, Feb 6, 2025). 10 artists set a new high compared with every earlier result in the database.
Top 25 results
- $76,700
- Scalmana, 2003$69,850
- $63,500
- "Peony" table lamp, circa 1925$63,500
- Raven Jar, 1999$52,070
- Tokyo-Ga, 2000$44,450
- Cello, 1996$40,640
- Dinosaur, 2008$40,640
- Stool, 1970s$38,100
- $37,206 (€36,000)
- Column #32, 1986$35,560
- Bench, circa 1955$35,560
- Kyoto, 2004$30,480
- REPOUSSE COVERED BOX, 1900$28,160
- $27,940
- Bench, circa 1955$27,940
- Table and twelve chairs, circa 1983$27,940
- Space I, 1993$25,400
- Child's Dress, 2007$25,400
- Ornithology, 2003$24,130
- New Negotiations Chaos, 1998$21,590
- Petroglyph Urn, 1991$21,590
- $20,320
- $19,200
- Suspended Artifact, 1998$19,050
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Toots Zynsky | Scalmana | $69,850 | $43,750 (62 earlier) |
| Établissements Gallé | "Peony" table lamp | $63,500 | $50,800 (6 earlier) |
| Laura de Santillana | Tokyo-Ga | $44,450 | $44,100 (25 earlier) |
| Oscar Han | Sărutul (Iisus și Maria Magdalena) | $37,206 | $17,898 (11 earlier) |
| Howard Ben Tré | Column #32 | $35,560 | $21,563 (7 earlier) |
| Richard Royal | Lemon Lime Fractal Twist (from the Geometric series) | $12,065 | $7,040 (10 earlier) |
| Eero Aarnio | "Ball" chair | $9,525 | $5,463 (26 earlier) |
| John Speed | Europ and the cheife cities… | $6,426 | $611 (55 earlier) |
| Gabriel Spat | Jardin Du Luxembourg | $4,600 | $1,800 (10 earlier) |
| Abraham Harriton | Workers Strike Fight | $4,200 | $800 (4 earlier) |
Most active artists
Artists with the most priced sales this week.
Dale Chihuly (30 sold · $329k)Charles and Ray Eames (19 sold · $27.7k)Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (9 sold · $11.3k)Richard Schultz (7 sold · $7.9k)Edward Povey (7 sold · $15.8k)Georg Karl Pfahler (7 sold · $3.5k)Eero Saarinen (6 sold · $8.2k)Ali Tayar (6 sold · $3k)William Morris (6 sold · $132k)Lino Tagliapietra (5 sold · $115k)
Generated from the auction results recorded in ArtSell for sales held Feb 3 – 9, 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.