Week 21, 2025
Notable sales: May 19 – 25, 2025
In the week of May 19 – 25, 2025, ArtSell recorded 2,201 auction lots, of which 2,010 sold. The 2,010 sales with a published price total $18,331,453, with a median of $960. The top result was Josef Čapek, “Flowering Meadow”, at $740,275 (Galerie Kodl, May 25, 2025). 10 artists set a new high compared with every earlier result in the database.
Top 25 results
- Flowering Meadow, 1937$740,275 (CZK 16,320,000)
- The Otava River, 1929$729,389 (CZK 16,080,000)
- Past Present Subjunctive, 1976$685,800
- Island III, 1937$631,411 (CZK 13,920,000)
- Antaeus, 1958$500,774 (CZK 11,040,000)
- Still life with Peaches, 1922$375,581 (CZK 8,280,000)
- Floating Lady, 1958$355,600
- Self Imprisonment, 1958$355,600
- $234,058 (CZK 5,160,000)
- White Still Life, 1947$217,728 (CZK 4,800,000)
- Urban Landscape, 1954$201,398 (CZK 4,440,000)
- Roses, 1926$195,955 (CZK 4,320,000)
- On the Charles Bridge, 1910–1915$190,512 (CZK 4,200,000)
- Young Woman, 1933$190,512 (CZK 4,200,000)
- $185,069 (CZK 4,080,000)
- Island I, 1934$168,739 (CZK 3,720,000)
- House in Locronan, 1936$163,296 (CZK 3,600,000)
- Painting (The Heraldic One), 1940–1941$163,296 (CZK 3,600,000)
- Rustlings and Silences, 1961$146,966 (CZK 3,240,000)
- $139,700
- Grapes in Basket, 1928$136,080 (CZK 3,000,000)
- Roman Capitals, 1958$130,637 (CZK 2,880,000)
- $127,000
- Winter Village Square, 1944$125,194 (CZK 2,760,000)
- Prague Bridges, 1923$125,194 (CZK 2,760,000)
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Václav Špála | The Otava River | $729,389 | $541,992 (132 earlier) |
| František Muzika | Island III | $631,411 | $420,096 (36 earlier) |
| Josef Hlinomaz | Circus Performers | $103,421 | $50,381 (6 earlier) |
| Olbram Zoubek | Promised Woman | $97,978 | $86,995 (34 earlier) |
| Vũ Cao Đàm | Maternité au coq | $82,550 | $71,875 (17 earlier) |
| Milan Grygar | Antiphon | $70,762 | $36,809 (3 earlier) |
| David Bates | Seated Man #3 | $63,500 | $60,855 (7 earlier) |
| Fiona Rae | Untitled | $51,200 | $38,148 (12 earlier) |
| Robert Vickrey | The Doorway | $50,160 | $35,313 (24 earlier) |
| Bohumil Kafka | Jan Žižka of Trocnov | $46,267 | $26,908 (14 earlier) |
Most active artists
Artists with the most priced sales this week.
Charles and Ray Eames (59 sold · $65.9k)George Nelson & Associates (40 sold · $70.8k)Pablo Picasso (26 sold · $259k)Tiffany Studios (22 sold · $54.4k)Pierre-Auguste Renoir (20 sold · $60.7k)Alexander Girard (18 sold · $19.2k)Andy Warhol (16 sold · $226k)Josef Kriehuber (14 sold · $6.4k)Roy Lichtenstein (13 sold · $236k)Herman Miller (12 sold · $14k)
Generated from the auction results recorded in ArtSell for sales held May 19 – 25, 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.