Week 20, 2025
Notable sales: May 12 – 18, 2025
In the week of May 12 – 18, 2025, ArtSell recorded 4,593 auction lots, of which 3,443 sold. The 3,311 sales with a published price total $99,550,626, with a median of $1,111. The top result was Jean-Michel Basquiat, “Untitled”, at $6,594,000 (Phillips, May 13, 2025). 10 artists set a new high compared with every earlier result in the database.
Top 25 results
- Untitled, 1984$6,594,000
- Alvarado to Doheny, 1998$4,900,000
- Untitled, 1988$4,295,000
- Mann mit zwei Kindern, 1966$4,174,000
- $3,539,543 (€3,162,000)
- Killer Nurse, 2009-2010$3,206,000
- Untitled, 1985-1986$2,964,000
- $2,722,000
- Untitled, 2012$2,238,000
- Dixie Red Seville, 1985$1,996,000
- Yellows in the Air, 1961$1,875,000
- The Fourth, 1959$1,633,000
- Landline Dark Blue, 2017$1,512,000
- Dolphin Taz Trashcan, 2007-2011$1,391,000
- $1,270,000
- Happy Birthday, 1962$1,270,000
- What I Know, 2005$1,206,500
- Imagen perdida 27, 1996$1,168,400
- Black Diagonal Relief, 2006$1,143,000
- East Hampton VII, 1968$1,080,000
- Untitled, 1981$1,016,000
- $1,014,176 (€906,000)
- The Bed, 1982$762,500
- Untitled, 1965$698,500
- Let’s Walk Together, 1953$698,500
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ed Ruscha | Alvarado to Doheny | $4,900,000 | $4,398,975 (844 earlier) |
| Jan Davidsz. de Heem | Still Life with Flowers and Fruits on a Stone Ledge | $3,539,543 | $52,706 (8 earlier) |
| Grace Hartigan | The Fourth | $1,633,000 | $927,100 (27 earlier) |
| Olga De Amaral | Imagen perdida 27 | $1,168,400 | $449,000 (17 earlier) |
| James Turrell | Ariel | $660,400 | $191,000 (36 earlier) |
| Adam Pendleton | Untitled (WE ARE NOT) | $533,400 | $277,200 (32 earlier) |
| Carol Bove | Snake | $444,500 | $308,000 (30 earlier) |
| Firelei Báez | Untitled | $381,000 | $100,800 (8 earlier) |
| Kiki Kogelnik | Rainy | $355,600 | $268,900 (70 earlier) |
| Willem Kalf | Large Vanitas Still Life | $296,193 | $7,560 (3 earlier) |
Most active artists
Artists with the most priced sales this week.
Salvador Dalí (109 sold · $63.9k)Meissen (88 sold · $137k)Meissen Royal Porcelain Manufactory (35 sold · $124k)Linn Ware & Ceramic Studio (33 sold · $18.6k)Len Castle (30 sold · $11.6k)Linn Ware (30 sold · $15.1k)George Nakashima (29 sold · $618k)Paul Evans (20 sold · $972k)Ed Ruscha (15 sold · $7.4M)American School (15 sold · $2.5k)
Generated from the auction results recorded in ArtSell for sales held May 12 – 18, 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.