Week 23, 2025
Notable sales: Jun 2 – 8, 2025
In the week of Jun 2 – 8, 2025, ArtSell recorded 3,036 auction lots, of which 2,844 sold. The 2,737 sales with a published price total $100,809,804, with a median of $6,283. The top result was Edvard Munch, “Das rote Haus (Det røde hus)”, at $2,332,979 (Ketterer Kunst, Jun 6, 2025). 10 artists set a new high compared with every earlier result in the database.
Top 25 results
- $2,332,979 (€2,044,500)
- Vollersroda III, 1916$2,147,524 (€1,880,000)
- Abstraktes Bild, 1989$2,056,833 (€1,802,500)
- $1,918,760 (€1,681,500)
- $1,504,540 (€1,318,500)
- Katie Jones, 1973$1,489,824 (PLN 5,600,000)
- Auf der Brücke, 1913$1,435,504 (€1,258,000)
- Orchester, 1932$1,305,649 (€1,143,000)
- Addition VII, 1959$1,297,431 (€1,137,000)
- $1,077,234 (₱60,080,000)
- $1,032,460 (€906,780)
- Vögel über dem Dorf, 1913$1,015,505 (€889,000)
- $986,490 (€863,600)
- $931,140 (PLN 3,500,000)
- Stillleben mit Skulptur, 1942$797,897 (€698,500)
- Lampe et Balance I, 1964$797,058 (€698,500)
- "Spirale", 2017$751,344 (€660,000)
- Rot im Zentrum, 1955$688,306 (€604,520)
- $688,186 (€604,520)
- Abstrakter Kopf: Komposition Nr. 10, Um 1924$667,332 (€584,200)
- Flora, 2006$652,824 (€571,500)
- Fünf, 1989$652,824 (€571,500)
- $646,341 (₱36,048,000)
- $646,341 (₱36,048,000)
- Scheune (Jershöft), 1921$637,647 (€558,800)
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Edvard Munch | Das rote Haus (Det røde hus) | $2,332,979 | $2,210,560 (812 earlier) |
| Willi Baumeister | Monturi, Diskus (mit Segmenten) | $688,186 | $473,137 (139 earlier) |
| Per Kirkeby | Fünf | $652,824 | $485,883 (141 earlier) |
| Franz West | Flora | $652,824 | $461,000 (228 earlier) |
| El Lissitzky | Proun (1919-1923) 1. Kestnermappe | $493,245 | $490,637 (32 earlier) |
| Manolo Millares | "Forma Abisal" | $344,153 | $286,358 (3 earlier) |
| Christo und Jeanne-Claude | Wrapped Reichstag (Project for Berlin) | $292,479 | $69,588 (9 earlier) |
| Mario Merz | Albero Grande Solitario | $258,070 | $187,500 (27 earlier) |
| Dorothea Maetzel-Johannsen | Das kranke Mädchen | $246,363 | $208,609 (30 earlier) |
| Ludomir Sleńdziński | Nad jeziorem | $199,530 | $68,629 (4 earlier) |
Most active artists
Artists with the most priced sales this week.
Cecil Beaton (79 sold · $134k)Andy Warhol (51 sold · $5.7M)Pablo Picasso (51 sold · $3.1M)Barry Humphries (46 sold · $153k)Damien Hirst (35 sold · $734k)Max Beckmann (23 sold · $3.2M)Gerhard Richter (20 sold · $3M)Oliver Messel (19 sold · $62.2k)Emil Nolde (17 sold · $2.4M)Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (16 sold · $531k)
Generated from the auction results recorded in ArtSell for sales held Jun 2 – 8, 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.