Week 34, 2026
Notable sales: Aug 17 – 23, 2026
In the week of Aug 17 – 23, 2026, ArtSell recorded 2,493 auction lots, of which 2,166 sold. The 2,151 sales with a published price total $6,449,235, with a median of $1,125. The top result was Martin Grelle, “The Buffalo Rattler”, at $96,000 (Scottsdale Art Auction, Aug 22, 2026). 10 artists set a new high compared with every earlier result in the database.
Top 25 results
- $96,000
- $84,000
- $84,000
- $72,000
- Buffalo Medicine -, 1999$66,000
- $66,000
- $55,000
- $51,000
- $48,000
- $45,000
- $42,000
- Bayou St. John, 1883$40,000
- $39,000
- $39,000
- $39,000
- $39,000
- $36,339 (€31,392)
- $36,000
- $36,000
- $36,000
- $33,000
- $33,000
- $33,000
- $33,000
- Study for Untitled Brigg's Meadow, c. 1970$32,000
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| John Nieto | Buffalo Medicine - | $66,000 | $60,000 (48 earlier) |
| Linden Frederick | Aroostook Barn | $20,000 | $11,000 (3 earlier) |
| Tom Dorr | Break Time | $16,800 | $8,190 (5 earlier) |
| Jim Wilcox | Peak of Fall | $15,600 | $15,210 (9 earlier) |
| Tom Loeser | Chest Over Drawer #2 | $15,360 | $11,430 (7 earlier) |
| Maurice Freedman | Untitled (Maurice Sterne House and Studio | $15,000 | $8,887 (12 earlier) |
| Tommy Simpson | House of Dreams chest of drawers | $10,240 | $3,024 (11 earlier) |
| Andy Moses | Te Rangi | $8,320 | $2,540 (3 earlier) |
| Astrid Preston | Through Branches | $8,320 | $800 (3 earlier) |
| Laurence Sisson | Summer Storm | $8,000 | $5,000 (11 earlier) |
Most active artists
Artists with the most priced sales this week.
Thomas Hart Benton (51 sold · $276k)Emerson Woelffer (49 sold · $103k)Charles and Ray Eames (24 sold · $46.1k)Toshiko Takaezu (16 sold · $34.8k)George Nelson & Associates (16 sold · $35.3k)Michael Ward (15 sold · $4.3k)William R. James (15 sold · $300k)Oiva Toikka (15 sold · $4.1k)Olaf Wieghorst (14 sold · $83.4k)Alvar Aalto (13 sold · $6.2k)
Generated from the auction results recorded in ArtSell for sales held Aug 17 – 23, 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.