Week 39, 2026
Notable sales: Sep 21 – 27, 2026
In the week of Sep 21 – 27, 2026, ArtSell recorded 3,803 auction lots, of which 2,648 sold. The 2,648 sales with a published price total $11,885,449, with a median of $668. The top result was Maurice Brazil Prendergast, “The Sands, St. Malo”, at $400,000 (Brunk Auctions, Sep 23, 2026). 10 artists set a new high compared with every earlier result in the database.
Top 25 results
- The Sands, St. Malo, circa 1907$400,000
- $348,300
- $335,400
- $335,400
- SMILE CODE, 2003$258,000
- The Climb, 1960$258,000
- Seven Stars, 2015$193,500
- Meollo I, 2011$193,500
- Flowers on a Bank, 1969$148,350
- Untitled (Paradise), 2015$141,900
- Untitled, 1981$141,900
- geographical avalanche, 2017–2018$141,900
- Enter Goldfish, 2007$113,520
- Shell, 1957$109,650
- MOTHER AND CHILD, 1989$109,650
- $103,200
- Pictograph, 1949$96,750
- Estoril, 1979$81,270
- $78,988 (CHF 65,000)
- $77,400
- Rollinalong, 1991$77,400
- Black Dada Drawing (C/A), 2021$70,950
- $70,950
- $66,836 (CHF 55,000)
- Untitled, 1950$64,500
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Maurice Brazil Prendergast | The Sands, St. Malo | $400,000 | $204,000 (14 earlier) |
| Juan Genovés | Meollo I | $193,500 | $171,950 (17 earlier) |
| George Morrison | Cerulean Shadows. Approaching Night (Red Rock Variation: Lake Superior Landscape) | $70,950 | $5,513 (6 earlier) |
| Menci Clement Crnčić | Family of Ploughmen (Ploughman) | $63,047 | $31,393 (25 earlier) |
| Ivan Rabuzin | Five Red Flowers | $57,315 | $10,332 (48 earlier) |
| Albert Irvin | Sandymount | $33,540 | $14,499 (39 earlier) |
| Jake Longstreth | Manzanita Avenue | $28,380 | $21,930 (7 earlier) |
| Đuro Pulitika | Dubrovnik (Stradun) | $22,926 | $12,855 (13 earlier) |
| Bela Čikoš Sesija | Council of Twenty Four Elders (Revelation Cycle) | $20,633 | $8,770 (5 earlier) |
| Jane Freilicher | Wild Rose Bush | $15,480 | $15,120 (7 earlier) |
Most active artists
Artists with the most priced sales this week.
Ota Janeček (20 sold · $3.6k)Edward Navone (15 sold · $9.3k)Hans J. Wegner (14 sold · $37.9k)Meissen (13 sold · $9.9k)Irving Lehman (13 sold · $1.8k)Salvador Dalí (13 sold · $6.7k)Pablo Picasso (12 sold · $17.5k)Markey Robinson (11 sold · $18.7k)Ștefan Câlția (11 sold · $8.5k)Kay Bojesen (10 sold · $2.9k)
Generated from the auction results recorded in ArtSell for sales held Sep 21 – 27, 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.