Week 51, 2025
Notable sales: Dec 15 – 21, 2025
In the week of Dec 15 – 21, 2025, ArtSell recorded 2,883 auction lots, of which 2,186 sold. The 2,186 sales with a published price total $9,963,155, with a median of $703. The top result was Victor Vasarely, “BELA”, at $236,316 (Capitolium Art, Dec 17, 2025). 10 artists set a new high compared with every earlier result in the database.
Top 25 results
- $236,316 (€201,600)
- $221,546 (€189,000)
- $216,400
- $206,776 (€176,400)
- Costum verde de bal (Colombina în verde), cca. 1874$206,080 (€175,000)
- La Balcic (Tătăroaică privind marea), 1934-1935$188,416 (€160,000)
- $133,850
- $132,927 (€113,400)
- Footed bowl, circa 1978$128,525 (£95,650)
- $127,500
- $127,000
- $106,342 (€90,720)
- $103,388 (€88,200)
- $103,388 (€88,200)
- $102,100
- $95,750
- Ilyinsky Gate, Winter, circa 1900$95,000
- $88,618 (€75,600)
- $82,710 (€70,560)
- $79,756 (€68,040)
- $73,849 (€63,000)
- $72,372 (€61,740)
- $70,895 (€60,480)
- Călătoria, 2014$61,824 (€52,500)
- $60,960
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tiffany & Co. | Important Suite of Two Twin-Branched Candelabra and Two Candlesticks, Commissioned by Mary Jane Morgan | $216,400 | $93,825 (57 earlier) |
| Tino Stefanoni | SENZA TITOLO G58 | $35,447 | $15,614 (19 earlier) |
| Genko Genkov | Lake Pancharevo | $22,272 | $15,048 (23 earlier) |
| Rudolf Schweitzer–Cumpăna | Șalul verde | $21,197 | $17,314 (389 earlier) |
| Elisaveta Konsulova-Vazova | Pink chrysanthemums | $17,583 | $11,824 (5 earlier) |
| Shag | Ray’s Mistake | $15,240 | $5,080 (4 earlier) |
| Gianni Dova | SENZA TITOLO | $14,770 | $6,284 (28 earlier) |
| David Choe | Replaceable | $10,560 | $7,860 (9 earlier) |
| Giuseppe Bergomi | GIOVANE COPPIA IN BIANCO E NERO | $10,043 | $4,861 (6 earlier) |
| Dumitru Ghiață | Iarnă în București | $8,832 | $7,635 (58 earlier) |
Most active artists
Artists with the most priced sales this week.
Pablo Picasso (15 sold · $77.8k)René Lalique (13 sold · $128k)Robert Motherwell (13 sold · $99.9k)Salvador Dalí (11 sold · $9.3k)Bruce Henry (10 sold · $1k)Jean Fautrier (10 sold · $128k)Max Klinger (9 sold · $27k)Joan Miró (9 sold · $17k)Patrick Leonard (8 sold · $4.1k)Rudolf Schweitzer–Cumpăna (8 sold · $45.6k)
Generated from the auction results recorded in ArtSell for sales held Dec 15 – 21, 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.