Week 9, 2025
Notable sales: Feb 24 – Mar 2, 2025
In the week of Feb 24 – Mar 2, 2025, ArtSell recorded 1,685 auction lots, of which 1,421 sold. The 1,346 sales with a published price total $16,459,936, with a median of $3,302. The top result was Jean-Michel Basquiat, “Feng Yao”, at $825,500 (Phillips, Feb 28, 2025). 10 artists set a new high compared with every earlier result in the database.
Top 25 results
- Feng Yao, 1983$825,500
- GG HK NPP #3, 2017$393,700
- Untitled, 2000$355,600
- Dance Studio, 2002$330,200
- Untitled, 2022$279,400
- Algier, Morgens, 2017$279,400
- Untitled (Protest Painting), 1994-1995$266,700
- Untitled, 2015$254,000
- Bass Strait, Table Cape, 1997$228,600
- Sleep (Mamadou Gueye), 2021-2022$177,800
- $166,400
- Sierra Madre, 1961$165,100
- $158,750
- $153,600
- OK DADA OK BLACK DADA OK, 2018$152,400
- Falling Cat, 2011$152,400
- $139,700
- $127,000
- Long Distance Runners, 2017$127,000
- Reclaimed Wall, 2022$120,650
- Akitannai, 1985$120,650
- Untitled, 2011$120,650
- $114,300
- $114,300
- $101,600
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Marina Perez Simão | Untitled | $279,400 | $194,325 (7 earlier) |
| Pam Evelyn | Reclaimed Wall | $120,650 | $99,877 (3 earlier) |
| Larry Rivers | Arab King Hussein at the U.N. | $95,250 | $87,500 (136 earlier) |
| Julio Galán | Autoretrato | $69,850 | $63,000 (7 earlier) |
| Marc Sijan | Standing Security Guard | $53,340 | $7,500 (6 earlier) |
| Zizipho Poswa | uNozakuzaku I (Negotiator) | $44,450 | $445 (4 earlier) |
| Leonard Baby | Liquid Courage | $40,640 | $30,023 (10 earlier) |
| Yves Dana | Antérieur | $25,400 | $22,088 (4 earlier) |
| John Dickinson | Twig occasional table, model 109 | $21,590 | $20,000 (63 earlier) |
| Pierre Sabatier | Solitaire coffee table | $21,120 | $6,300 (3 earlier) |
Most active artists
Artists with the most priced sales this week.
Frances vH Mohair Studio (17 sold · $49.2k)George Nelson & Associates (14 sold · $57.4k)Robert Graham (12 sold · $87.4k)Bernard Aubertin (10 sold · $21.8k)Pierre Jeanneret (10 sold · $138k)Charles and Ray Eames (9 sold · $35.4k)Paul Evans (8 sold · $97.3k)Frank Stella (7 sold · $226k)Andy Warhol (7 sold · $211k)Achim Bertenburg (6 sold · $5.3k)
Generated from the auction results recorded in ArtSell for sales held Feb 24 – Mar 2, 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.