Week 37, 2025
Notable sales: Sep 8 – 14, 2025
In the week of Sep 8 – 14, 2025, ArtSell recorded 3,985 auction lots, of which 3,155 sold. The 3,155 sales with a published price total $91,934,083, with a median of $2,048. The top result was Claude Monet, “Sur la falaise près de Fécamp”, at $6,393,870 (Kornfeld, Sep 12, 2025). 10 artists set a new high compared with every earlier result in the database.
Top 25 results
- $6,393,870 (CHF 5,100,000)
- Tabea, 1981$5,767,020 (CHF 4,600,000)
- $3,750,900 (CHF 3,000,000)
- Buste sur socle, Ca. 1957$2,005,920 (CHF 1,600,000)
- $2,000,480 (CHF 1,600,000)
- Ohne Titel, Circa 1940$1,629,810 (CHF 1,300,000)
- Composition, Design 1927, cast 1960$1,504,440 (CHF 1,200,000)
- $1,504,440 (CHF 1,200,000)
- La Minotauromachie, Paris, 25 March 1935$1,504,440 (CHF 1,200,000)
- $1,504,440 (CHF 1,200,000)
- $1,500,360 (CHF 1,200,000)
- Münsterplatz in Bern, 1935$1,316,385 (CHF 1,050,000)
- Bord de mer à Collioure, 1905$1,253,700 (CHF 1,000,000)
- $1,250,300 (CHF 1,000,000)
- $1,135,512 (₱64,886,400)
- $1,053,108 (CHF 840,000)
- Madonna - Woman Making Love, 1895/1902$1,000,240 (CHF 800,000)
- L'Odalisque ou Nu couché en rose, 1913-1914$940,275 (CHF 750,000)
- Peter Augustus Jay, 1880$900,000
- $852,516 (CHF 680,000)
- $814,905 (CHF 650,000)
- $814,905 (CHF 650,000)
- Femme jaune ou Nu debout, 1913$814,905 (CHF 650,000)
- $702,072 (CHF 560,000)
- Coupe ovale, Ca. 1935$664,461 (CHF 530,000)
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Monet | Sur la falaise près de Fécamp | $6,393,870 | $6,352,500 (14 earlier) |
| Franz Gertsch | Tabea | $5,767,020 | $650,992 (73 earlier) |
| Edvard Munch | Der Kuss II - The Kiss II | $3,750,900 | $2,332,979 (816 earlier) |
| André Derain | Bord de mer à Collioure | $1,253,700 | $396,675 (58 earlier) |
| Pierre-Auguste Renoir | Après le bain | $626,850 | $456,735 (317 earlier) |
| Hans Arp | Landschaft oder Frau - Femme-paysage | $263,277 | $242,483 (56 earlier) |
| Dorothea Sharp | The Daisy Field | $263,277 | $95,640 (12 earlier) |
| Jerry Elizalde Navarro | Awesomely Beautiful | $136,682 | $80,591 (81 earlier) |
| Sonia Delaunay | Rythme coloré | $112,833 | $76,200 (286 earlier) |
| David Bates | Corona Still Life | $70,000 | $63,500 (8 earlier) |
Most active artists
Artists with the most priced sales this week.
Edvard Munch (170 sold · $19M)Alexander Joseph von Steuben (105 sold · $174k)Pablo Picasso (95 sold · $5.4M)Alberto Giacometti (47 sold · $7.6M)Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (47 sold · $1.9M)Sam Francis (43 sold · $1.4M)Käthe Kollwitz (31 sold · $1.5M)Marc Chagall (30 sold · $3.9M)Rembrandt Harmensz van Rijn (23 sold · $885k)Otto Meyer-Amden (22 sold · $65.8k)
Generated from the auction results recorded in ArtSell for sales held Sep 8 – 14, 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.