Week 15, 2025
Notable sales: Apr 7 – 13, 2025
In the week of Apr 7 – 13, 2025, ArtSell recorded 3,387 auction lots, of which 2,528 sold. The 2,514 sales with a published price total $36,339,338, with a median of $2,024. The top result was Arthur Boyd, “Bride in Hibiscus Bush (1958)”, at $1,078,191 (Smith & Singer, Apr 8, 2025). 10 artists set a new high compared with every earlier result in the database.
Top 25 results
- $1,078,191 (A$1,779,545)
- $892,296 (A$1,472,727)
- $738,549 (£571,500)
- $725,400
- $700,210 (A$1,165,909)
- Shoal (1995), 1995$446,148 (A$736,364)
- $409,500
- $374,400
- The Lighthouse, Fiumicino (1968-1969), 1968-1969$371,790 (A$613,636)
- $362,700
- $353,790 (A$589,091)
- $315,900
- Progression 1978, 1978$297,432 (A$490,909)
- $297,432 (A$490,909)
- A Field of Wattles 1981, 1981$278,842 (A$460,227)
- $269,100
- $257,400
- $257,400
- Runner, 2009$246,183 (£190,500)
- $245,700
- Orchard (1986), 1986$223,074 (A$368,182)
- $222,300
- $222,300
- The Hours c1902 (also known as Les Heures, Rite of Spring, La Ronde des Heures and Fête Champêtre ), c1902$221,119 (A$368,182)
- Garden Island 1990, 1990$215,638 (A$355,909)
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| John Russell | Vue de la Seine, Bougival View of the Seine, Bougival, Spring (1887) | $892,296 | $702,031 (24 earlier) |
| G. Harvey | The American Dream | $374,400 | $292,500 (99 earlier) |
| Emily Kame Kngwarreye | Awelye 1996 (also known as Awelye - My Story and Emily's Story ) | $353,790 | $280,303 (83 earlier) |
| Carol Jerrems | Vale Street 1975 | $163,588 | $83,145 (3 earlier) |
| Ed Mell | Western Bronc | $122,850 | $87,500 (57 earlier) |
| Charles Christian Nahl | Joaquin Murieta | $111,150 | $22,500 (8 earlier) |
| Earl Biss | High Mountain Camp | $99,450 | $51,425 (22 earlier) |
| Jean-Joseph Carriès | Mask | $66,540 | $6,875 (6 earlier) |
| Alfred Wolmark | Portrait of Dottie Konstam 1915 (also known as Mrs Alfred Kohnstamm ) | $66,336 | $11,544 (11 earlier) |
| Scott Rogers | Vaquero | $64,350 | $11,700 (4 earlier) |
Most active artists
Artists with the most priced sales this week.
Günter Brus (123 sold · $139k)Maynard Dixon (61 sold · $1.5M)Tiffany Studios (56 sold · $1M)Auguste Delaherche (23 sold · $73.9k)Émile Decoeur (20 sold · $49.6k)Toshiko Takaezu (15 sold · $17.2k)Dave McGary (13 sold · $281k)John Nieto (12 sold · $183k)Zdzisław Beksiński (11 sold · $9.8k)Walter R. Downs (11 sold · $24.3k)
Generated from the auction results recorded in ArtSell for sales held Apr 7 – 13, 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.