Week 15, 2026
Notable sales: Apr 6 – 12, 2026
In the week of Apr 6 – 12, 2026, ArtSell recorded 2,155 auction lots, of which 1,607 sold. The 1,607 sales with a published price total $24,590,236, with a median of $3,072. The top result was Nicolai Fechin, “Carmencita”, at $1,020,000 (Scottsdale Art Auction, Apr 11, 2026). 10 artists set a new high compared with every earlier result in the database.
Top 25 results
- $1,020,000
- $990,000
- $690,000
- Bandolier, Corn, Sickle, 1927$645,000
- $396,000
- $336,000
- Freischwimmer 123, 2004$309,600
- $300,000
- $270,000
- $252,000
- $240,000
- $216,000
- $204,000
- $192,000
- $192,000
- $168,000
- $156,000
- Untitled Film Still #49, 1979$154,800
- $144,000
- $132,000
- $132,000
- Untitled (Memphis), 1971$129,000
- $129,000
- Gold Mine, 1986$129,000
- $120,000
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nicolai Fechin | Carmencita | $1,020,000 | $555,750 (50 earlier) |
| William R. James | Smoky and Clint | $990,000 | $87,750 (10 earlier) |
| Kyle Polzin | America Endures - 250 years of Valor and Virtue | $336,000 | $257,400 (41 earlier) |
| Billy Schenck | Blood on the Horizon | $216,000 | $64,350 (11 earlier) |
| Ed Mell | Guardo Expanse | $132,000 | $122,850 (71 earlier) |
| Sebastião Salgado | Gold Mine | $129,000 | $100,000 (201 earlier) |
| Eric Bowman | Golden Canopy | $96,000 | $76,050 (12 earlier) |
| Nichols & Boynton | Highly Important Large Stoneware Cooler w/ Profuse Incised Tree and Cow Scene, NICHOLS & BOYNTON / BURLINGTON, VT | $90,000 | $2,160 (12 earlier) |
| John Burger | Outstanding JOHN BURGER / ROCHESTER, NY Five-Gallon Stoneware Crock w/ Rooster Scene | $90,000 | $33,350 (79 earlier) |
| LeRoy Neiman | Vegas Craps | $90,000 | $82,550 (193 earlier) |
Most active artists
Artists with the most priced sales this week.
John Bell (18 sold · $7.8k)Cowden & Wilcox (18 sold · $26.4k)William R. James (17 sold · $1.7M)Diane Arbus (17 sold · $320k)Ed Mell (14 sold · $792k)Carl Sprinchorn (14 sold · $19.6k)Sebastião Salgado (13 sold · $348k)Henri Cartier-Bresson (13 sold · $122k)Ansel Adams (13 sold · $153k)Robert Mapplethorpe (12 sold · $364k)
Generated from the auction results recorded in ArtSell for sales held Apr 6 – 12, 2026 (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.