Home / Market reports / April 2017 Art auction market report: April 2017 In April 2017, ArtSell recorded 4,452 auction lots from 22 auction houses, of which 2,882 sold (65% sell-through). The 2,882 sales with a published price total $45,742,562, with a median of $4,375 (USD at the sale-date rate). The top sale was Alberto Giacometti, “Unique and large conic chandelier with four small cones, from the Tériade apartment, Paris”, at $2,623,735 (Phillips). 15 artists set a new high compared with every earlier result in the database.
Lots offered
4,452
22 houses
Sold
2,882
65% sell-through
Total
$46M
2,882 priced sales
Top sales # Work Artist House · date Price 1 Unique and large conic chandelier with four small cones, from the Tériade apartment, Paris , circa 1954 Alberto Giacometti Phillips · Apr 26, 2017$2,623,735 (£2,045,000) 2 '6 x 9' demountable house, together with 'Pyrobal' fireplace , 1944-1945 Jean Prouvé Phillips · Apr 26, 2017$853,195 (£665,000) 3 Wharf, Monterey , circa 1915 E. Charlton Fortune Bonhams · Apr 11, 2017$727,500 4 ‘Tête de femme’ table lamp , designed 1937, later cast Alberto Giacometti Phillips · Apr 26, 2017$560,671 (£437,000) 5 Important 'Bridge' table , 2010 Joris Laarman Phillips · Apr 26, 2017$437,503 (£341,000) 6 Nude with Blue Hair, from Nudes Series , 1994 Roy Lichtenstein Phillips · Apr 18, 2017$430,000 7 Important 'Cité' armchair, from Jean Prouvé's private collection , circa 1930 Jean Prouvé Phillips · Apr 26, 2017$406,711 (£317,000) 8 The Rattlesnake Frederic Remington Scottsdale Art Auction · Apr 1, 2017$386,100 9 Campbell's Soup I , 1968 Andy Warhol Phillips · Apr 18, 2017$346,000 10 Canyon Exodus Gerard Curtis Delano Scottsdale Art Auction · Apr 1, 2017$321,750 11 The Den - Unique State , 1990-96 Roy Lichtenstein Phillips · Apr 18, 2017$310,000 12 Pair of chairs, designed for the conference room, Lattes Publishing House, Turin , 1951 Carlo Mollino Phillips · Apr 26, 2017$306,637 (£239,000) 13 Tulips , 1977 Robert Mapplethorpe Phillips · Apr 4, 2017$298,000 14 Unique bookcase, designed for Henri Ingber , 1948 Charlotte Perriand and Pierre Jeanneret Phillips · Apr 26, 2017$275,845 (£215,000) 15 Four-Square (Four Circles) , 1966 Barbara Hepworth Wright · Apr 27, 2017$269,000
Top American artists Ranked by total of priced sales in the month; region from the artist’s recorded nationality.
Top American artists, April 2017 # Artist Total sold Priced sales Top result 1 Roy Lichtenstein American
$840,417 6 Nude with Blue Hair, from Nudes Series — $430,0002 Andy Warhol American
$798,505 17 Campbell's Soup I — $346,0003 E. Charlton Fortune American
$727,500 1 Wharf, Monterey — $727,5004 Gerard Curtis Delano American
$585,000 4 Canyon Exodus — $321,7505 Frederic Remington American
$468,000 2 The Rattlesnake — $386,1006 László Moholy-Nagy American
$425,000 3 Photogram studies for Goerz (negative and positive) — $212,5007 Carleton Watkins American
$387,500 4 Cape Horn, Columbia River — $156,2508 Robert Mapplethorpe American
$381,125 5 Tulips — $298,0009 Kaws American
$354,001 5 Untitled (Color) — $170,72910 Vik Muniz American
$319,867 5 The Best of LIFE—Portfolio — $150,000
Top European artists Top European artists, April 2017 # Artist Total sold Priced sales Top result 1 Alberto Giacometti Swiss
$3,184,406 2 Unique and large conic chandelier with four small cones, from the Tériade apartment, Paris — $2,623,7352 Pablo Picasso Spanish
$611,998 19 Nature morte au verre sous la lampe (Still Life with Glass under the Lamp) — $250,0003 Joan Miró Spanish
$471,450 34 Femme-oiseau II / L'oiseau dressé — $37,5004 Gio Ponti Italian
$455,257 13 Rare coffee table — $88,2065 Carlo Mollino Italian
$387,193 2 Pair of chairs, designed for the conference room, Lattes Publishing House, Turin — $306,6376 Gustave Le Gray French
$341,250 3 Troncs d’Arbres, Fontainebleau — $200,0007 Henri Cartier-Bresson French
$319,375 7 On the Banks of the Marne, France — $212,5008 Barbara Hepworth British
$269,000 1 Four-Square (Four Circles) — $269,0009 David Hockney British
$210,750 7 March 19; March 21; May 16; and May 18, from The Arrival of Spring in Woldgate, East Yorkshire in 2011 (twenty eleven) — $100,00010 Richard Hamilton British
$207,625 5 Picasso's meninas: three impressions — $187,500
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 Alberto Giacometti Unique and large conic chandelier with four small cones, from the Tériade apartment, Paris Phillips $2,623,735 $2,517,120 (77 earlier) Robert Mapplethorpe Tulips Phillips $298,000 $149,109 (84 earlier) Charlotte Perriand and Pierre Jeanneret Unique bookcase, designed for Henri Ingber Phillips $275,845 $61,132 (8 earlier) Henri Cartier-Bresson On the Banks of the Marne, France Phillips $212,500 $161,000 (90 earlier) Imogen Cunningham Magnolia Blossom Phillips $162,500 $110,500 (17 earlier) Carleton Watkins Cape Horn, Columbia River Phillips $156,250 $27,500 (7 earlier) William Scott Untitled deVeres $149,114 $127,526 (79 earlier) Eugène Atget Boutique Coiffeur, Boulevard de Strasbourg Phillips $125,000 $25,000 (10 earlier) Constantin Brancusi (Bois) Group Mobile (L’Enfant au monde) Phillips $125,000 $115,550 (16 earlier) Julia Margaret Cameron Sir John Herschel Phillips $112,500 $23,481 (10 earlier) Manuel Álvarez Bravo Retrato de lo Eterno (Portrait of the Eternal) Phillips $106,250 $27,500 (26 earlier) Worthington Whittredge Indians on the Platte River Scottsdale Art Auction $105,300 $15,000 (7 earlier) Dora Maar Untitled (double-exposed portrait) Phillips $100,000 $21,930 (3 earlier) Fontana Arte Coffee table Phillips $96,668 $92,790 (50 earlier) R.A. Sir Peter Blake Gold Painting Phillips $91,907 $10,279 (6 earlier)
Auction houses this month Phillips (1,179) Pananti (857) Bonhams (327) Scottsdale Art Auction (281) Whyte's (229) Levis Fine Art Auctions (219) Sloans & Kenyon (211) Morgan O'Driscoll (166) im Kinsky (153) Twents Veilinghuis (153) deVeres (140) Art+Object (118) Clarke Auction Gallery (92) Wright (75) Agra-Art (67) SOGA (45) Van Ham (43) Toovey's (43) HAUS Galerii (29) Leonard Joel (15) Sopocki Dom Aukcyjny (9) Olympia Auctions (1)