Week 42, 2025
Notable sales: Oct 13 – 19, 2025
In the week of Oct 13 – 19, 2025, ArtSell recorded 2,559 auction lots, of which 1,990 sold. The 1,978 sales with a published price total $40,484,817, with a median of $1,850. The top result was Jean-Michel Basquiat, “Untitled (Pestus)”, at $3,187,570 (Phillips, Oct 16, 2025). 10 artists set a new high compared with every earlier result in the database.
Top 25 results
- Untitled (Pestus), 1982$3,187,570 (£2,374,000)
- $1,713,285 (£1,276,000)
- Portret Marii Matejko, 1859$1,328,096 (PLN 4,900,000)
- $1,299,062 (£967,500)
- $1,165,472 (PLN 4,300,000)
- $1,151,920 (PLN 4,250,000)
- $952,646 (£709,500)
- $867,328 (PLN 3,200,000)
- $866,042 (£645,000)
- $779,437 (£580,500)
- Regatta Pattern Study, 2020$710,154 (£528,900)
- 222.5° Arc x 13, 2012$692,833 (£516,000)
- Love-Blue-Green, 1966$658,535 (£490,200)
- Mitrice Richardson, 2012$606,229 (£451,500)
- Calcium Hydroxide, 2004-2011$554,267 (£412,800)
- Conceptual Artist #6 (by combining different grave rubbings he invents lives that never existed), 2022$554,267 (£412,800)
- $467,662 (£348,300)
- $440,332 (€378,000)
- $398,379 (£296,700)
- $381,257 (£283,800)
- Lane, 2014$363,927 (£270,900)
- Serenade, 1980$346,597 (£258,000)
- Synthist, 2018$346,417 (£258,000)
- $325,248 (PLN 1,200,000)
- $311,937 (£232,200)
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tadeusz Kantor | Emballage VI, 1967 (Personnage emballé, Ambalaż ludzki) | $1,165,472 | $561,650 (172 earlier) |
| Robert Rauschenberg | Gospel Yodel (Salvage Series) | $952,646 | $631,778 (839 earlier) |
| Mario Schifano | WHEN I REMEMBER GIACOMO BALLA, NEW YORK CITY (DITTICO) | $440,332 | $209,867 (203 earlier) |
| Sakti Burman | Serenade | $346,597 | $150,000 (3 earlier) |
| Steven Shearer | Synthist | $346,417 | $69,103 (4 earlier) |
| Carla Accardi | Grigio (Ideogramma) | $173,299 | $132,761 (47 earlier) |
| George Rouy | The Shape of Absence | $138,639 | $113,250 (15 earlier) |
| Tomás Saraceno | Superstring | $138,639 | $72,592 (20 earlier) |
| Margaret MacDonald | OPHELIA, 1908 | $126,167 | $2,463 (3 earlier) |
| Jan Lebensztejn | Longchamps | $108,416 | $83,667 (488 earlier) |
Most active artists
Artists with the most priced sales this week.
Joan Miró (24 sold · $226k)William De Morgan (18 sold · $101k)Andy Warhol (18 sold · $562k)Lalique (16 sold · $12k)Christopher Dresser (15 sold · $30.1k)F. L. Griggs (15 sold · $21.5k)Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin (14 sold · $22.7k)Sol LeWitt (12 sold · $31.2k)A. E. Jones (12 sold · $15.3k)Charles Waltensperger (12 sold · $9.4k)
Generated from the auction results recorded in ArtSell for sales held Oct 13 – 19, 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.