Week 49, 2025
Notable sales: Dec 1 – 7, 2025
In the week of Dec 1 – 7, 2025, ArtSell recorded 5,466 auction lots, of which 4,435 sold. The 4,435 sales with a published price total $108,205,440, with a median of $2,500. The top result was Andy Warhol, “Marilyn Monroe (10 Blatt)”, at $5,226,276 (Ketterer Kunst, Dec 5, 2025). 10 artists set a new high compared with every earlier result in the database.
Top 25 results
- $5,226,276 (€4,488,000)
- Behauptend, 1926$3,650,708 (€3,135,000)
- $3,077,774 (€2,643,000)
- Bronzefrau Nr. 12, 2003$1,788,672 (€1,536,000)
- Datscha in Kislovodsk, 1913$1,321,940 (€1,135,200)
- Sertigweg, 1937$1,276,874 (€1,096,500)
- Abstraktes Bild, 1997$1,216,786 (€1,044,900)
- $1,201,764 (€1,032,000)
- $1,051,544 (€903,000)
- $991,455 (€851,400)
- $976,433 (€838,500)
- Concetto Spaziale, 1960$976,433 (€838,500)
- $901,323 (€774,000)
- Soffitto alla b.c, 1961/62$781,147 (€670,800)
- La femme au tambourin, 1939$781,147 (€670,800)
- Hieroglyphics No. LXXIV, 1958-62$770,088 (€660,000)
- Dalet Vav, 1958$751,103 (€645,000)
- $736,080 (€632,100)
- Verlangen, 1923$721,058 (€619,200)
- $708,481 (€607,200)
- Helle Chromatik, 1962$691,014 (€593,400)
- Mystischer Kopf: Trotz, Um 1918$675,992 (€580,500)
- $664,321 (€572,000)
- $611,014 (₱36,048,000)
- Leuchtturm hinter Bucht, 1912$600,882 (€516,000)
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Asger Jorn | Une mime de rien (ou presque) | $991,455 | $326,916 (86 earlier) |
| Piero Dorazio | Soffitto alla b.c | $781,147 | $232,943 (232 earlier) |
| Antoni Tàpies | Hieroglyphics No. LXXIV | $770,088 | $550,990 (528 earlier) |
| George Grosz | Walzertraum (Vorlage für "Ecce Homo", Blatt 13) | $540,794 | $475,059 (388 earlier) |
| Joseph van Bredael | The Tower of Babel | $470,373 | $64,354 (4 earlier) |
| Carl Spitzweg | Lesender Einsiedler mit Raben in einer Schlucht | $420,617 | $383,230 (187 earlier) |
| Ewald Mataré | Brunnenfigur Stehende Kuh | $411,576 | $294,030 (269 earlier) |
| William Copley | Happy New Year | $330,485 | $313,346 (115 earlier) |
| Frans Snyders | Hunting Young Wild Boars | $264,585 | $169,841 (8 earlier) |
| Agnes Miller Parker | THE HORSE FAIR, 1928 | $235,584 | $1,804 (3 earlier) |
Most active artists
Artists with the most priced sales this week.
Takashi Murakami (30 sold · $39.4k)Pablo Picasso (28 sold · $2.4M)Gene Hackman (26 sold · $113k)Arnulf Rainer (25 sold · $423k)Gerhard Richter (24 sold · $2.5M)Ethelbert White (18 sold · $8.9k)Alfons Walde (17 sold · $1.1M)Andy Warhol (16 sold · $7.7M)Rembrandt Harmensz van Rijn (14 sold · $27.2k)Eric Ravilious (13 sold · $2.3k)
Generated from the auction results recorded in ArtSell for sales held Dec 1 – 7, 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.