Week 17, 2025
Notable sales: Apr 21 – 27, 2025
In the week of Apr 21 – 27, 2025, ArtSell recorded 1,278 auction lots, of which 1,057 sold. The 1,057 sales with a published price total $5,312,831, with a median of $1,476. The top result was Isamu Noguchi, “Rare and Important coffee table”, at $444,500 (Wright, Apr 23, 2025). 10 artists set a new high compared with every earlier result in the database.
Top 25 results
- Rare and Important coffee table, 1945-47$444,500
- $151,048 (€133,000)
- White Pine, 1947$134,952 (CA$187,200)
- Lapsed, kivid ja kadakad, 1990$107,892 (€95,000)
- Untitled, 1952$101,600
- Two-tier console table, c. 1930$66,040
- Moon tapestry, 1975$63,500
- Tuuline päev, 1940$60,192 (€53,000)
- Hanging cabinet, 1963$57,150
- Põrgu, 1930$48,835 (€43,000)
- $48,000
- Lilled, 1940 - 1944$45,428 (€40,000)
- Vaikelu ubadega, 2002 - 2003$45,428 (€40,000)
- $44,450
- Dining chairs, set of six, c. 1930$40,640
- L122 chandelier, c. 1999$40,640
- $40,064 (CA$55,575)
- Tallinna vaade, 1934$38,614 (€34,000)
- $38,100
- $35,560
- $35,560
- Fitas cabinet, 2012$33,020
- $33,020
- Untitled, 2011$32,738 (HK$254,000)
- Kesköö paiku, 1999$30,664 (€27,000)
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tiit Pääsuke | Rahvariie III (Mustjala ainetel) | $151,048 | $76,195 (9 earlier) |
| A. J. Casson | White Pine | $134,952 | $39,221 (91 earlier) |
| Karin Luts | Tuuline päev | $60,192 | $29,204 (12 earlier) |
| Eduard Wiiralt | Põrgu | $48,835 | $38,968 (219 earlier) |
| Lydia Mei | Lilled | $45,428 | $5,287 (8 earlier) |
| Frederick Varley | Waterfall - Northern Stream | $40,064 | $10,621 (10 earlier) |
| J. E. H. MacDonald | Mahone Bay, Nova Scotia | $27,412 | $23,394 (19 earlier) |
| Nikolai Kormašov | Setod | $27,257 | $8,259 (17 earlier) |
| Mithé Espelt | Collection of four wall mirrors | $13,200 | $3,780 (3 earlier) |
| Ben McLeod | Untitled - Circles and Planes | $10,121 | $1,493 (5 earlier) |
Most active artists
Artists with the most priced sales this week.
Isamu Noguchi (26 sold · $624k)Ettore Sottsass (9 sold · $55.4k)Pierre Jeanneret (8 sold · $121k)Walter Battiss (7 sold · $5.1k)Richard Scott (7 sold · $6.1k)Cecil Skotnes (6 sold · $2.7k)Eduard Wiiralt (6 sold · $74.2k)Trevor Coleman (5 sold · $3.8k)Walter J. Phillips (5 sold · $5.2k)A. Y. Jackson (5 sold · $16k)
Generated from the auction results recorded in ArtSell for sales held Apr 21 – 27, 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.