Week 28, 2025
Notable sales: Jul 7 – 13, 2025
In the week of Jul 7 – 13, 2025, ArtSell recorded 1,983 auction lots, of which 1,042 sold. The 1,042 sales with a published price total $2,197,256, with a median of $723. The top result was Sarah Lucas, “The Last Crusade I”, at $114,300 (Phillips, Jul 8, 2025). 10 artists set a new high compared with every earlier result in the database.
Top 25 results
- The Last Crusade I, 1993$114,300
- $40,640
- Călător cu aripi, 1999$38,640 (€33,000)
- Portrait of Gremlin, 2017$38,100
- $38,010 (£28,000)
- Carl Morse, 1961$27,940
- Untitled, 2007$27,940
- $25,793 (£19,000)
- Watermelon, 2006$24,130
- Melancolie, 1978$23,418 (€20,000)
- $21,590
- Service Area, 1970$20,320
- When Hell Freezes Over, 2002$19,050
- Hotdog Dog, 2011$19,050
- Ariel vase, 1952$19,050
- "Ring" Chair, 1968$16,510
- $16,510
- $16,510
- Bookcases, set of nine, c. 1960$15,240
- $14,933 (£11,000)
- Bacchus, 2019$13,970
- Untitled, 2018$13,970
- 'PJ-010806 Easy Lounge’ sofa, c.1958$13,575 (£10,000)
- $12,896 (£9,500)
- Pair of lounge chairs, c.1956$12,218 (£9,000)
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sever Frențiu | Curtezană | $10,538 | $5,311 (14 earlier) |
| Ion Alin Gheorghiu | Nud | $7,962 | $5,420 (125 earlier) |
| Basil Besler | A Set of Four Botanical Prints from Hortus Eystettensis | $6,400 | $3,200 (22 earlier) |
| Richard Billingham | Untitled | $6,112 | $2,500 (3 earlier) |
| Niels Clausen | Nightstands, pair | $6,096 | $6,048 (7 earlier) |
| Ion Dumitriu | Arbore | $4,684 | $4,439 (28 earlier) |
| Stig Lindberg | Faience vase | $4,064 | $4,000 (35 earlier) |
| Alf Svensson | Teve Chairs, pair | $3,302 | $2,640 (7 earlier) |
| Richard Robbins | Figure of a man | $3,258 | $2,233 (3 earlier) |
| Ingegerd Silow | Flatweave carpet | $3,048 | $3,028 (3 earlier) |
Most active artists
Artists with the most priced sales this week.
Pierre Jeanneret (22 sold · $196k)Norman Lindsay (17 sold · $17k)Hans J. Wegner (12 sold · $51.1k)Børge Mogensen (12 sold · $38.1k)Joshua Smith (11 sold · $1.4k)Marcel Guguianu (9 sold · $19.2k)Ștefan Pelmuș (8 sold · $6.2k)Ion Iancuț (8 sold · $10.8k)Marcel Chirnoagă (8 sold · $4.6k)Josef Sudek (8 sold · $11.6k)
Generated from the auction results recorded in ArtSell for sales held Jul 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.