Week 34, 2025
Notable sales: Aug 18 – 24, 2025
In the week of Aug 18 – 24, 2025, ArtSell recorded 1,791 auction lots, of which 1,543 sold. The 1,523 sales with a published price total $22,519,540, with a median of $1,524. The top result was Howard Arkley, “Contemporary Units 1988”, at $1,593,540 (Smith & Singer, Aug 19, 2025). 10 artists set a new high compared with every earlier result in the database.
Top 25 results
- Contemporary Units 1988, 1988$1,593,540 (A$2,454,545)
- $796,770 (A$1,227,273)
- Boy with a Lizard (1966), 1966$717,093 (A$1,104,545)
- $632,212 (A$981,818)
- $557,739 (A$859,091)
- Chair and Drapery 1958, 1958$497,981 (A$767,045)
- $478,062 (A$736,364)
- $368,262 (NZ$621,435)
- Sherbrooke 1920, 1920$342,611 (A$527,727)
- $326,676 (A$503,182)
- $318,708 (A$490,909)
- The Smoko (circa 1944), 1944$318,708 (A$490,909)
- $316,106 (A$490,909)
- $278,869 (A$429,545)
- The Waiter 1997, 1997$276,593 (A$429,545)
- $263,561 (NZ$444,753)
- Ned Kelly (1973), 1973$239,031 (A$368,182)
- $238,287 (NZ$402,105)
- $238,287 (NZ$402,105)
- $237,080 (A$368,182)
- African Family 1963, 1963$237,080 (A$368,182)
- $227,456 (NZ$383,828)
- Ipswich Hotel 1948, 1948$215,128 (A$331,364)
- Figure in a Hillside 1961-62, 1961-62$205,469 (A$319,091)
- $199,192 (A$306,818)
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Howard Arkley | Contemporary Units 1988 | $1,593,540 | $1,073,327 (91 earlier) |
| Rick Amor | The Waiter 1997 | $276,593 | $206,078 (97 earlier) |
| Margaret Olley | Ipswich Hotel 1948 | $215,128 | $144,577 (116 earlier) |
| William Piguenit | Pitt Water, Tasmania 1910 | $199,192 | $87,881 (10 earlier) |
| Rah Fizelle | Sleeping Nude (circa 1938-1939) | $127,483 | $29,082 (7 earlier) |
| Bruce Armstrong | Bunjil 2003 | $110,637 | $62,468 (13 earlier) |
| Cj Hendry | American Flag 2015 | $59,270 | $45,557 (14 earlier) |
| Llew Summers | Sprung Man | $41,881 | $3,536 (10 earlier) |
| Albert Henry Fullwood | Somme Valley, Attack on Vaire and Hamel, July 4, 1918 1918 | $39,514 | $7,061 (19 earlier) |
| Ildiko Kovacs | Aquine 2021 | $37,933 | $27,074 (11 earlier) |
Most active artists
Artists with the most priced sales this week.
Linn Ware & Ceramic Studio (31 sold · $6k)Toshiko Takaezu (19 sold · $21.4k)Richard Greeves (19 sold · $30k)Brother Thomas Bezanson (13 sold · $25.2k)Arthur Boyd (12 sold · $975k)Dave McGary (10 sold · $123k)Walter Battiss (8 sold · $7.7k)J. Paul Fennell (8 sold · $24.1k)Ignatius Marx (7 sold · $1.2k)Ed Moulthrop (6 sold · $49.7k)
Generated from the auction results recorded in ArtSell for sales held Aug 18 – 24, 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.