Week 8, 2025
Notable sales: Feb 17 – 23, 2025
In the week of Feb 17 – 23, 2025, ArtSell recorded 2,511 auction lots, of which 1,730 sold. The 1,730 sales with a published price total $12,602,398, with a median of $715. The top result was Juan Luna, “Portrait of Irene della Rocca”, at $580,709 (León Gallery, Feb 22, 2025). 10 artists set a new high compared with every earlier result in the database.
Top 25 results
- $580,709 (₱33,644,800)
- $539,230 (₱31,241,600)
- $497,751 (₱28,838,400)
- $345,200 (₱20,000,000)
- $331,834 (₱19,225,600)
- $311,094 (₱18,024,000)
- $269,615 (₱15,620,800)
- $269,615 (₱15,620,800)
- $248,875 (₱14,419,200)
- Owl with Eggs, 1963$228,600
- Chicken with Eggs, 1961$222,250
- Untitled (Dango), 2000$198,000
- $197,026 (₱11,415,200)
- $186,657 (₱10,814,400)
- $186,657 (₱10,814,400)
- $176,287 (₱10,213,600)
- $176,287 (₱10,213,600)
- $165,917 (₱9,612,800)
- $155,547 (₱9,012,000)
- Keyhole and Eye, 1964$152,400
- $134,808 (₱7,810,400)
- $133,026 (ZAR 2,453,000)
- $124,438 (₱7,209,600)
- $120,290 (₱6,969,280)
- $114,068 (₱6,608,800)
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun Kaneko | Untitled (Dango) | $198,000 | $113,400 (58 earlier) |
| Demi Padua | Water on the Dry Land | $186,657 | $86,756 (9 earlier) |
| Antoine Coypel | Attribuito a. Studio per la testa di un vecchio | $48,825 | $3,007 (4 earlier) |
| William Schwartz | Symphonic Forms #17 | $35,560 | $30,420 (18 earlier) |
| Paul Soldner | Pedestal Piece | $27,940 | $10,000 (28 earlier) |
| Ecaterina Vrana | Untitled | $27,152 | $15,240 (16 earlier) |
| Shio Kusaka | (grid 62) | $26,670 | $26,460 (21 earlier) |
| Rick Dillingham | Globe 8-88-7 | $24,130 | $8,925 (15 earlier) |
| Kevin Roberts | Lady with Horse and Wayfarer | $18,795 | $18,259 (14 earlier) |
| Max Balatbat | Untitled | $14,518 | $12,880 (28 earlier) |
Most active artists
Artists with the most priced sales this week.
Alexander Podlashuc (15 sold · $21.5k)Toshiko Takaezu (15 sold · $207k)Murano (12 sold · $10.6k)Charles and Ray Eames (12 sold · $19k)Vittorio Zecchin (11 sold · $17.6k)Beatrice Wood (11 sold · $34.4k)Ercole Barovier (11 sold · $24.5k)Constantin Piliuță (9 sold · $10k)Richard Graef (8 sold · $931)Betty Woodman (8 sold · $74.4k)
Generated from the auction results recorded in ArtSell for sales held Feb 17 – 23, 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.