Week 22, 2026
Notable sales: May 25 – 31, 2026
In the week of May 25 – 31, 2026, ArtSell recorded 2,797 auction lots, of which 1,903 sold. The 1,903 sales with a published price total $23,546,069, with a median of $2,327. The top result was Josef Čapek, “Drinker”, at $1,634,136 (Galerie Kodl, May 31, 2026). 10 artists set a new high compared with every earlier result in the database.
Top 25 results
- Drinker, 1918-1919$1,634,136 (CZK 34,080,000)
- Quiet Bay, 1910-1915$753,774 (CZK 15,720,000)
- $748,020 (CZK 15,600,000)
- On the Vltava River, 1927$379,764 (CZK 7,920,000)
- Jeune fille à la Colombe, 1928$358,400
- Night, 1947$356,748 (CZK 7,440,000)
- $322,224 (CZK 6,720,000)
- $321,673 (ZAR 5,261,250)
- Tres mujeres caminando, 1981$282,583 (MX$4,900,000)
- DAPPING ON LOUGH MASK, COUNTY MAYO, 1928-36$267,789 (€230,000)
- Field in Brie, 1954$258,930 (CZK 5,400,000)
- Navajo Girl, 1904$230,400
- Musical Still Life, 1948$230,160 (CZK 4,800,000)
- Moonwalk, 1987$221,046 (€190,000)
- Al Fresco, 1990$209,787 (ZAR 3,431,250)
- $202,794 (ZAR 3,316,875)
- Hrusice in Spring, 1941$195,636 (CZK 4,080,000)
- Ploughing, 1949$189,882 (CZK 3,960,000)
- $181,815 (ZAR 2,973,750)
- Breton Farmstead With Haystack, c.1892$180,327 (€155,000)
- Children’s Games, 1940$178,374 (CZK 3,720,000)
- The Night Watchman, end of the 1920s$172,620 (CZK 3,600,000)
- Sázava Region in Winter, 1944$172,620 (CZK 3,600,000)
- Sunlit Forest, 1888–1890 (1894)$172,620 (CZK 3,600,000)
- June Day, 1965$149,604 (CZK 3,120,000)
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Josef Čapek | Drinker | $1,634,136 | $1,463,904 (63 earlier) |
| Francisco Zúñiga | Tres mujeres caminando | $282,583 | $59,850 (208 earlier) |
| Penny Siopis | Al Fresco | $209,787 | $77,725 (61 earlier) |
| Adriena Šimotová | June Day | $149,604 | $89,741 (18 earlier) |
| Jaroslav Král | Still Life | $126,588 | $112,720 (20 earlier) |
| William John Leech | Cemetery Of St-Jeannet | $87,255 | $76,671 (69 earlier) |
| Sergio Hernández | Untitled | $74,971 | $59,124 (33 earlier) |
| David Alfaro Siqueiros | Yucatán visión | $69,204 | $38,700 (59 earlier) |
| Byron Galvez | Untitled | $66,321 | $16,206 (12 earlier) |
| Ricardo Martínez | Hombre en reposo | $57,670 | $55,000 (16 earlier) |
Most active artists
Artists with the most priced sales this week.
Emil Wilhelm Becker (59 sold · $65.1k)Zao Wou-ki (27 sold · $381k)Jacobus Hendrik Pierneef (24 sold · $583k)René Lalique (15 sold · $48.3k)Jean Welz (13 sold · $21.3k)Václav Špála (9 sold · $934k)Lalique (9 sold · $5.2k)Norman Catherine (8 sold · $65.7k)Johan Laurentz Jensen (8 sold · $86.8k)Josef Lada (8 sold · $1.2M)
Generated from the auction results recorded in ArtSell for sales held May 25 – 31, 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.