Home / Market reports / April 2011 Art auction market report: April 2011 In April 2011, ArtSell recorded 942 auction lots from 9 auction houses, of which 636 sold (68% sell-through). The 636 sales with a published price total $5,554,854, with a median of $2,500 (USD at the sale-date rate). The top sale was Joseph Kleitsch, “Highlights”, at $506,000 (Bonhams). 15 artists set a new high compared with every earlier result in the database.
Total
$5.6M
636 priced sales
Top sales # Work Artist House · date Price 1 Highlights , circa 1928 Joseph Kleitsch Bonhams · Apr 6, 2011$506,000 2 He Calls for Elias Colin McCahon Art+Object · Apr 12, 2011$449,511 (NZ$571,875) 3 Pink and white roses in vases on a table Franz Bischoff Bonhams · Apr 6, 2011$152,000 4 Necessary Protection Colin McCahon Art+Object · Apr 12, 2011$139,348 (NZ$177,281) 5 Taos Indians beneath the clouds Ernest Martin Hennings Bonhams · Apr 6, 2011$134,000 6 Kauri and White Pine: Domestic Landscape Colin McCahon Art+Object · Apr 12, 2011$116,872 (NZ$148,687) 7 Cypress Point, Monterey Albert Bierstadt Bonhams · Apr 6, 2011$91,500 8 Slice armchair , 1999 Mathias Bengtsson Wright · Apr 28, 2011$88,900 9 Paved with Good Intentions, table 38 , 2005 Ron Arad Wright · Apr 28, 2011$86,500 10 Storm shadows, on Coso Range , 1919 Maynard Dixon Bonhams · Apr 6, 2011$73,200 11 Molly and Rex , 1923 William Frederic Ritschel Bonhams · Apr 6, 2011$67,100 12 St. Tropez Harbour E. Charlton Fortune Bonhams · Apr 6, 2011$67,100 13 The Gold Rush, 1938; The Mining Camp, 1938; The Mining Town, 1938; The Ghost Town, 1943 (four painting allegory) Victor Forsythe Bonhams · Apr 6, 2011$58,560 14 Winter's gold Hanson Puthuff Bonhams · Apr 6, 2011$54,900 15 Negro homes, Dallas, Texas Louis Siegriest Bonhams · Apr 6, 2011$51,240
Top American artists Ranked by total of priced sales in the month; region from the artist’s recorded nationality.
Top American artists, April 2011 # Artist Total sold Priced sales Top result 1 Joseph Kleitsch American
$506,000 1 Highlights — $506,0002 Edgar Alwin Payne American
$182,390 5 At anchor, tuna boats, Brittany, France — $48,8003 Franz Bischoff Austrian
$158,100 2 Pink and white roses in vases on a table — $152,0004 Ernest Martin Hennings American
$134,000 1 Taos Indians beneath the clouds — $134,0005 E. Charlton Fortune American
$100,040 3 St. Tropez Harbour — $67,1006 Albert Bierstadt American
$91,500 1 Cypress Point, Monterey — $91,5007 Andy Warhol American
$87,759 5 Flowers — $26,2508 Maynard Dixon American
$85,156 3 Storm shadows, on Coso Range — $73,2009 William Wendt American
$79,300 3 Oaks and Sycamores — $34,16010 William Frederic Ritschel American
$67,100 1 Molly and Rex — $67,100
Top European artists Top European artists, April 2011 # Artist Total sold Priced sales Top result 1 Ron Arad British
$86,500 1 Paved with Good Intentions, table 38 — $86,5002 Ettore Sottsass Italian
$58,751 7 Clair de Lune totem — $18,7503 Henry Moore British
$33,000 1 Upright Connected Forms — $33,0004 Giuseppe Santomaso Italian
$20,000 1 Along the Leme Canal — $20,0005 Zaha Hadid British
$18,750 1 Wave sofa — $18,7506 Gijs Bakker Dutch
$16,250 2 Fruit Table with Holes — $11,2507 Edgar Brandt French
$15,000 1 Pelican bookends, pair — $15,0008 Jean Mayodon French
$15,000 1 urns, pair — $15,0009 Gio Ponti Italian
$12,500 1 Grande Bomboniera Balletto — $12,50010 David Hockney British
$11,250 1 Lillies (Still Life) — $11,250
New artist records The artist’s best price this month exceeded every earlier priced result for them in the ArtSell database (artists with at least three earlier priced results).
Artist Work Price Previous high Colin McCahon He Calls for Elias Art+Object $449,511 $137,922 (18 earlier) Victor Forsythe The Gold Rush, 1938; The Mining Camp, 1938; The Mining Town, 1938; The Ghost Town, 1943 (four painting allegory) Bonhams $58,560 $12,000 (3 earlier) Peter Stichbury Walter Whitlow Art+Object $47,648 $13,743 (14 earlier) Peter Robinson In This Lost and Forsaken Land Art+Object $46,749 $42,886 (24 earlier) Shiro Kuramata Feather Stool Wright $43,750 $11,400 (25 earlier) Mathieu Matégot Cap d'Ail table and set of four chairs Wright $21,250 $20,400 (9 earlier) Tony Duquette desk Wright $16,250 $813 (3 earlier) Julian Dashper Untitled (1996) Art+Object $15,283 $11,796 (17 earlier) Donald Sinclair Driver Horizontal Relief Art+Object $13,485 $12,896 (5 earlier) Thomas McGlynn Cypress along the coast Bonhams $11,590 $7,800 (3 earlier) Carl Sammons La Quinta Canyon, Desert Lavender and Chuprosa Bonhams $11,590 $7,050 (13 earlier) Warren Eliphalet Rollins Mission San Juan Capistrano Bonhams $10,980 $10,575 (3 earlier) Karl Yens View along the Merced River, Yosemite Bonhams $6,710 $3,286 (5 earlier) André Cazenave Rock lamps, set of nineteen Wright $6,375 $5,100 (3 earlier) Medard Klein Arrangement #15 Wright $6,250 $4,313 (20 earlier)
Auction houses this month Sloans & Kenyon (256) Bonhams (237) Wright (145) Twents Veilinghuis (137) Art+Object (64) Agra-Art (52) Toovey's (48) Artmark (2) Levis Fine Art Auctions (1)