Home / Market reports / January 2016 Art auction market report: January 2016 In January 2016, ArtSell recorded 1,608 auction lots from 11 auction houses, of which 1,452 sold (90% sell-through). The 1,452 sales with a published price total $9,198,437, with a median of $2,000 (USD at the sale-date rate). The top sale was Andy Warhol, “The Scream (after Munch)”, at $393,047 (Phillips). 15 artists set a new high compared with every earlier result in the database.
Lots offered
1,608
11 houses
Sold
1,452
90% sell-through
Total
$9.2M
1,452 priced sales
Top sales # Work Artist House · date Price 1 The Scream (after Munch) , 1984 Andy Warhol Phillips · Jan 21, 2016$393,047 (£278,500) 2 Cowboys and Indians , 1986 Andy Warhol Phillips · Jan 21, 2016$291,433 (£206,500) 3 Details of Renaissance Paintings (Sandro Botticelli, Birth of Venus 1482) , 1984 Andy Warhol Phillips · Jan 21, 2016$274,498 (£194,500) 4 $ (Quadrant) , 1982 Andy Warhol Phillips · Jan 21, 2016$240,627 (£170,500) 5 Große liegende Figur , 1951 Fritz Wotruba im Kinsky · Jan 26, 2016$216,740 (€200,000) 6 Expressionist Woodcut Series , 1980 Roy Lichtenstein Phillips · Jan 21, 2016$206,755 (£146,500) 7 Totem , 1988 Keith Haring Phillips · Jan 21, 2016$206,755 (£146,500) 8 Muhammad Ali , 1978 Andy Warhol Phillips · Jan 21, 2016$189,820 (£134,500) 9 Reflections on The Scream, from Reflections series , 1990 Roy Lichtenstein Phillips · Jan 21, 2016$139,013 (£98,500) 10 Lenin , 1987 Andy Warhol Phillips · Jan 21, 2016$96,674 (£68,500) 11 Shoes , 1980 Andy Warhol Wright · Jan 28, 2016$81,250 12 Bacchanale , 1959 Pablo Picasso Phillips · Jan 21, 2016$74,093 (£52,500) 13 Großer Narziß , 1991 Martha Jungwirth im Kinsky · Jan 26, 2016$71,524 (€66,000) 14 Carmen by Charles Sorlier , 1966 Marc Chagall Phillips · Jan 21, 2016$70,565 (£50,000) 15 Von - Bis Hans Staudacher im Kinsky · Jan 26, 2016$69,357 (€64,000)
Top American artists Ranked by total of priced sales in the month; region from the artist’s recorded nationality.
Top American artists, January 2016 # Artist Total sold Priced sales Top result 1 Andy Warhol American
$1,717,954 17 The Scream (after Munch) — $393,0472 Roy Lichtenstein American
$484,081 10 Expressionist Woodcut Series — $206,7553 Keith Haring American
$264,972 3 Totem — $206,7554 Jeff Koons American
$88,564 5 Dom Pérignon Balloon Venus (Magenta) — $45,8675 Frank Stella American
$84,558 8 Double Gray Scramble — $50,0006 Robert Longo American
$74,270 5 Untitled (Iceman X) — $28,2267 Louise Bourgeois French
$67,037 1 Fugue — $67,0378 Christopher Wool American
$65,273 2 Black Book — $38,8119 Robert Indiana American
$49,618 6 Four Panel Love (four sheets) — $16,25010 Cy Twombly American
$49,396 1 8 Odi di Orazio: seven plates — $49,396
Top European artists Top European artists, January 2016 # Artist Total sold Priced sales Top result 1 Hans Staudacher Austrian
$335,969 47 Von - Bis — $69,3572 Damien Hirst British
$285,259 10 Sanctum — $67,0373 Marc Chagall Belarusian
$244,866 13 Carmen by Charles Sorlier — $70,5654 Pablo Picasso Spanish
$233,596 18 Bacchanale — $74,0935 Fritz Wotruba Austrian
$227,096 4 Große liegende Figur — $216,7406 Julian Opie British
$197,935 9 Walking in London 1 — $49,3967 Francis Bacon British
$164,416 7 Triptyque Août 1972 (after, Triptych August 1972) — $35,2838 Joan Miró Spanish
$139,170 4 Constellations portfolio — $56,3209 Gerhard Richter German
$137,602 5 Abstraktes Bild (P1) — $56,45210 Martha Jungwirth Austrian
$117,300 8 Großer Narziß — $71,524
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 Fritz Wotruba Große liegende Figur im Kinsky $216,740 $199,412 (37 earlier) Martha Jungwirth Großer Narziß im Kinsky $71,524 $14,820 (8 earlier) Hans Staudacher Von - Bis im Kinsky $69,357 $53,888 (68 earlier) Hubert Shuptrine Sharecroppers, Marion, Alabama Brunk Auctions $34,000 $8,500 (3 earlier) Ellsworth Kelly Colored Paper Image XX (Brown Square with Blue), from Colored Paper Images Phillips $25,580 $18,750 (96 earlier) Franz Ringel Die toten Freunde im Kinsky $22,888 $16,381 (22 earlier) Adolf Frohner Kain und Abel tanzen Tango im Kinsky $18,423 $11,206 (15 earlier) Giselbert Hoke Porträt Helga Vavrousek im Kinsky $10,013 $8,889 (3 earlier) Christo & Jeanne-Claude Ponte Sant'Angelo, Wrapped, Project for Rome Phillips $8,468 $6,152 (8 earlier) Peter Sengl Society Boy in Teneriffa im Kinsky $7,868 $5,926 (21 earlier) Karl Anton Fleck Porträt Helga Vavrousek im Kinsky $5,436 $4,660 (3 earlier) Victor Pasmore Vigna Antoniniana Phillips $4,940 $4,375 (13 earlier) Anni Albers Untitled Wright $3,500 $3,076 (6 earlier) Rudolf Hradil Blumenstillleben im Kinsky $2,081 $1,307 (3 earlier) Paolo Corvino Plaque on base Clarke Auction Gallery $800 $300 (3 earlier)
Auction houses this month Wright (416) im Kinsky (322) Phillips (250) Van Ham (138) Clarke Auction Gallery (107) Twents Veilinghuis (95) Brunk Auctions (81) Agra-Art (64) Sopocki Dom Aukcyjny (50) Toovey's (47) Artmark (38)