Week 35, 2025
Notable sales: Aug 25 – 31, 2025
In the week of Aug 25 – 31, 2025, ArtSell recorded 1,421 auction lots, of which 1,033 sold. The 1,033 sales with a published price total $3,747,102, with a median of $326. The top result was Frederick McCubbin, “The Lime Tree (Yarra River from Kensington Road, South Yarra)”, at $779,580 (Leonard Joel, Aug 25, 2025). 10 artists set a new high compared with every earlier result in the database.
Top 25 results
- $779,580 (A$1,200,000)
- Ramparts Face the Ocean, 1932$207,888 (A$320,000)
- Portrait of Lady Coghlan, 1919$155,916 (A$240,000)
- Mount Macedon, c.1910$142,923 (A$220,000)
- Dandenongs Landscape, c.1924$136,427 (A$210,000)
- $123,434 (A$190,000)
- The Sonata, c.1910$123,434 (A$190,000)
- (Promenade on the Beach), c.1909$113,689 (A$175,000)
- $110,441 (A$170,000)
- Two Women in a Garden, c.1912$77,958 (A$120,000)
- Nu En Plein Air, c.1911$77,958 (A$120,000)
- Towards Prahran, 1907$64,965 (A$100,000)
- Madonnas in a Garden, c.1935$51,972 (A$80,000)
- $51,972 (A$80,000)
- $51,053 (MX$950,000)
- $48,964 (€42,000)
- $48,724 (A$75,000)
- $45,000
- $42,992 (MX$800,000)
- The Rose Garden, Coombe Bank, c.1913$38,979 (A$60,000)
- $38,979 (A$60,000)
- (Bamburgh Castle), c.1908$32,483 (A$50,000)
- Change of Direction, 1985$31,250
- Fleury Road in Spring, c.1896$29,884 (A$46,000)
- $29,145 (€25,000)
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Imre Goth | Neusachliches Damenportrait | $48,964 | $34,781 (3 earlier) |
| Harold Newton | Upshore Sunset | $45,000 | $11,340 (6 earlier) |
| Manny Farber | Change of Direction | $31,250 | $2,560 (3 earlier) |
| Arthur Merric Boyd Senior | (Landscape) | $7,146 | $2,812 (5 earlier) |
| Luis Ortiz Monasterio | Retrato de dama | $4,837 | $4,105 (5 earlier) |
| Hermann Prediger | Cabaret "Lapin Blanc Paris" | $3,264 | $268 (3 earlier) |
| Al Black | River at Dusk | $2,600 | $2,394 (15 earlier) |
| Fanny Rabel | Untitled | $2,150 | $245 (16 earlier) |
| Hermann Vogel | Waldinneres | $1,632 | $713 (6 earlier) |
| Georg Arnold-Graboné | "Prixental" | $1,516 | $552 (6 earlier) |
Most active artists
Artists with the most priced sales this week.
Hedwig Greve (17 sold · $6.5k)Harold Newton (17 sold · $183k)Emil Orlík (15 sold · $4.3k)Thomas Swift Hutton (11 sold · $1.8k)Frederick McCubbin (9 sold · $1.3M)Otmar Alt (9 sold · $2k)John Atkinson (9 sold · $4.4k)John Falconer Slater (6 sold · $2.3k)René Lalique (6 sold · $8.5k)Werner Tübke (5 sold · $2.4k)
Generated from the auction results recorded in ArtSell for sales held Aug 25 – 31, 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.