Week 33, 2025
Notable sales: Aug 11 – 17, 2025
In the week of Aug 11 – 17, 2025, ArtSell recorded 1,373 auction lots, of which 1,145 sold. The 1,145 sales with a published price total $2,337,024, with a median of $792. The top result was Jack Vettriano, “A MARVELLOUS NIGHT FOR A MOONDANCE, 1990”, at $54,710 (Lyon & Turnbull, Aug 13, 2025). 10 artists set a new high compared with every earlier result in the database.
Top 25 results
- $54,710 (£40,320)
- $39,075 (A$60,000)
- Untitled, 1957$38,000
- $29,065 (£21,420)
- Sofa, c. 1935$25,400
- $24,570
- $22,050
- $21,420
- Constructeurs, 1905$19,530
- $18,807 (£13,860)
- UNTITLED, 1979$18,807 (£13,860)
- $16,000
- $16,000
- $15,481 (£11,500)
- $15,387 (£11,340)
- FORTY, 1990$15,387 (£11,340)
- Fall Forrest, 1984$15,000
- $15,000
- $14,532 (£10,710)
- Femmes a La Fontaine, circa 1932$13,860
- $13,678 (£10,080)
- Blue Pearly Doves Score, 2024$13,545
- $13,025 (A$20,000)
- Komposition (Anbetung), 1930$12,766 (€10,922)
- Orchard at Dusk, c. 1997$12,000
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Elizabeth Blackadder | SELF PORTRAIT WITH RED LACQUER TABLE, KYOTO -1988 | $29,065 | $16,117 (121 earlier) |
| Art Déco | Sofa | $25,400 | $13,200 (75 earlier) |
| Pat Douthwaite | UNTITLED | $18,807 | $17,300 (78 earlier) |
| Shona Kinloch | CROW | $13,678 | $8,353 (4 earlier) |
| Viktor Schreckengost | Automobile concept sketches | $6,096 | $4,000 (15 earlier) |
| Philip Barter | "Yellow Farmhouse" Kingfield | $5,500 | $3,000 (4 earlier) |
| Nael Hanna | FIELDS MEET THE SEA | $5,471 | $5,234 (27 earlier) |
| Elena Jahn | Monhegan Waterfall of Blue and White | $4,750 | $1,400 (7 earlier) |
| Luke Sciberras | Wilcannia Dust Bowl | $4,559 | $2,132 (9 earlier) |
| Peggy Bacon | The Outskirts of Town | $4,500 | $2,100 (15 earlier) |
Most active artists
Artists with the most priced sales this week.
Warren McArthur (44 sold · $94.9k)Elizabeth Blackadder (16 sold · $83.2k)Art Déco (11 sold · $47.9k)Carl Sprinchorn (11 sold · $25.1k)Robert Indiana (10 sold · $13.6k)James Rosenquist (8 sold · $3.8k)John Houston (7 sold · $20.2k)John Byrne (7 sold · $63.6k)John Louis Laurent (7 sold · $2.9k)William Zorach (7 sold · $42.4k)
Generated from the auction results recorded in ArtSell for sales held Aug 11 – 17, 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.