# Adolf Wölfli - Auction Profile

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Updated: 2026-04-28T14:54:04.210Z

## Summary
- Lots tracked: 35
- Lots with prices: 30
- First auction date: 2004-01-15
- Latest auction date: 2025-11-13
- Median realised price: $28,000
- Price range: $60 to $650,000

## Market Takeaway
Adolf Wölfli has 35 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $28,000. Category concentration is still broad. Last 12 months recorded 2 sales. These metrics reflect recorded public auction results and may not include private transactions or every premium outlier sale.

## How To Read This Data
- Use median \($28,000\) as a typical result and the typical low/high band \($20,000 to $50,000\) as the middle 50% of recorded sales.
- Auction prices can include buyer premiums or fees depending on house reporting, so compare on a like\-for\-like basis.
- Condition, provenance, size, and attribution confidence can move final value materially versus median comps.

## Price Bands
- Under $1,000: 3.3% (1 sales)
- $1,000 to $10,000: 0% (0 sales)
- $10,000\+: 96.7% (29 sales)

## Recent Trend & Velocity
- Last 12 months sales: 2
- Previous 12 months sales: 1
- Recent 12 months median: $60
- Previous 12 months median: $119,700
- Median shift: 0%
- Latest sale date: 2025-11-13
- Days since latest sale: 166
- Market velocity: steady

## Top Auction Houses
- Christie's: 12 lots
- Koller Auctions: 6 lots
- Sotheby's: 6 lots
- Artcurial Beurret Bailly Widmer: 5 lots
- Tajan: 3 lots
- Accademia Fine Art: 1 lots
- Galerie Kornfeld Auktionen AG: 1 lots
- Piasa: 1 lots

## Top Categories
- N/A

## Recent Sold Lots
1. 2025-11-13 | ADOLF WÖLFLI \(1864\-1930\), LE CRÉATEUR DE L'UNIVERS, 1911 | Accademia Fine Art | €60
2. 2025-09-24 | Adolf Wölfli \(1864\-1930\) Johann Lang von Sumiswald, 1917 | Piasa | €19,000
3. 2025-01-22 | ADOLF WÖLFLI \(1864\-1930\). DER GROSSE SKT. ADOLF\-STARN \(THE GREAT ST. ADOLF\- | Christie's | $119,700
4. 2024-03-13 | Adolf Wölfli 1864–1930 | Artcurial Beurret Bailly Widmer | CHF 47,000
5. 2023-06-23 | ADOLF WÖLFLI | Koller Auctions | CHF 36,000
6. 2022-02-03 | ADOLF WÖLFLI \(1864\-1930\) Untitled, double sided graphite and colored penci | Christie's | N/A
7. 2021-09-17 | Adolf Wölfli: Krohnen=Gottes=Acker | Galerie Kornfeld Auktionen AG | CHF 50,000
8. 2020-12-04 | ADOLF WÖLFLI | Koller Auctions | CHF 16,000
9. 2020-07-03 | ADOLF WÖLFLI | Koller Auctions | CHF 15,000
10. 2020-07-03 | ADOLF WÖLFLI | Koller Auctions | CHF 12,000
11. 2020-07-03 | ADOLF WÖLFLI | Koller Auctions | CHF 22,000
12. 2020-06-24 | Adolf Wölfli \(1864–1930\) | Artcurial Beurret Bailly Widmer | CHF 25,000
13. 2020-01-17 | Adolf Wölfli \(1864\-1930\) Maggingen/Lembinger, double sided, 1927 colored pencil and graphite on paper 11 3/8 x 20 3/8 in. | Christie's | $25,625
14. 2019-06-28 | ADOLF WÖLFLI | Koller Auctions | CHF 20,000
15. 2019-06-19 | Adolf Wölfli | Artcurial Beurret Bailly Widmer | CHF 28,000
16. 2019-06-19 | Adolf Wölfli | Artcurial Beurret Bailly Widmer | CHF 17,000
17. 2019-06-19 | Adolf Wölfli | Artcurial Beurret Bailly Widmer | CHF 18,000
18. 2019-01-18 | Adolf Wölfli \(1864\-1930\) \- Untitled \(the masked man\), double sided, 1920 | Christie's | $40,000
19. 2018-10-18 | Adolf Wölfli \(1864\-1930\) \- Sans titre | Christie's | €30,000
20. 2018-10-04 | ADOLF WÖLFLI \| Die Wurden\-Trager Der Die Wurden | Sotheby's | $35,000
21. 2018-10-04 | ADOLF WÖLFLI \| Der San Salvathor | Sotheby's | $650,000
22. 2018-01-30 | Adolf Wölfli \(1864\-1930\) Der harzformige, nitnixa und dohrn = Roosali = Chnantz, 1925 Coloured pencils and pencil on paper; annotated o | Tajan | €33,800
23. 2018-01-19 | ADOLF WÖLFLI \(1864\-1930\) Untitled, 1918 stamped Psychiatrische Universitäts | Christie's | $75,000
24. 2017-01-21 | ADOLF WÖLFLI \(1864 \- 1930\) \| Helidi=Veetia | Sotheby's | N/A

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