# Aref El Rayess - Auction Profile

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Updated: 2026-04-28T19:30:04.064Z

## Summary
- Lots tracked: 28
- Lots with prices: 17
- First auction date: 2009-09-10
- Latest auction date: 2025-11-11
- Median realised price: $23,940
- Price range: $3,000 to $378,000

## Market Takeaway
Aref El Rayess has 28 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $23,940. Category concentration is still broad. Last 12 months recorded 9 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 \($23,940\) as a typical result and the typical low/high band \($10,625 to $72,500\) 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: 0% (0 sales)
- $1,000 to $10,000: 23.5% (4 sales)
- $10,000\+: 76.5% (13 sales)

## Recent Trend & Velocity
- Last 12 months sales: 9
- Previous 12 months sales: 4
- Recent 12 months median: $32,000
- Previous 12 months median: $81,900
- Median shift: 0%
- Latest sale date: 2025-11-11
- Days since latest sale: 168
- Market velocity: moderate

## Top Auction Houses
- Christie's: 12 lots
- Sotheby's: 10 lots
- Bonhams: 3 lots
- Millon & Associes: 2 lots
- John Nicholson's Fine Art Auctioneers & Valuers: 1 lots

## Top Categories
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## Recent Sold Lots
1. 2024-04-25 | Aref EL RAYESS \(Liban, 1928 \- 2005\) Untitled | Millon & Associes | €8,000
2. 2009-09-10 | AREF EL RAYESS \(1928\-2005\) LEBANESE Sans Titre. | John Nicholson's Fine Art Auctioneers & Valuers | N/A
3. 2025-11-11 | AREF EL RAYESS \(1928, ALEY \- 2005, ALEY\). Untitled. acrylic and pastel on p | Christie's | £5,715
4. 2025-11-11 | AREF EL RAYESS \(1928, ALEY \- 2005, ALEY\). Untitled. pastel on paper14 ¼ x 1 | Christie's | N/A
5. 2025-11-06 | AREF EL RAYESS \(1928, ALEY \- 2005, ALEY\). Soukhour Meyrouba \(The Rocks of M | Christie's | £114,300
6. 2025-10-28 | Untitled | Sotheby's | N/A
7. 2025-10-28 | Untitled | Sotheby's | N/A
8. 2025-05-21 | Aref el Rayess \(Lebanon, 1928\-2005\) Untitled, 1964 | Bonhams | N/A
9. 2025-05-21 | Aref El Rayess \(Lebanon, 1928\-2005\) Displaced from the South \(Naziheen min aljunub\) | Bonhams | £32,000
10. 2025-05-21 | Aref El Rayess \(Lebanon, 1928\-2005\) La Famille | Bonhams | £40,000
11. 2025-05-08 | AREF EL RAYESS \(1928, ALEY \- 2005, ALEY\). Untitled. oil on canvas17 3/8 x 2 | Christie's | $12,600
12. 2025-02-08 | Untitled | Sotheby's | $180,000
13. 2024-10-31 | AREF EL RAYESS \(1928, ALEY \- 2005, ALEY\). Liberation. oil on canvas 39 3⁄8 | Christie's | £81,900
14. 2024-10-31 | AREF EL RAYESS \(1928, ALEY \- 2005, ALEY\). The Desert. oil on canvas 30 x 48 | Christie's | £378,000
15. 2024-10-22 | Set of 22 digital offset prints from 'The Road to Peace' | Sotheby's | £12,000
16. 2024-04-25 | Aref EL RAYESS \(Liban, 1928 \- 2005\) Untitled | Millon & Associes | €3,000
17. 2023-11-09 | AREF EL RAYESS \(1928, ALEY \- 2005, ALEY\) Untitled oil on panel laid on boa | Christie's | £15,120
18. 2022-11-03 | Aref El Rayess \(Lebanese, 1928\-2005\) Untitled oil on canvas 17 1/8 x 21 1/8 | Christie's | N/A
19. 2022-11-02 | Aref El Rayess \(Lebanese, 1928\-2005\) Untitled \(from Temps \- Homme \- Machine | Christie's | £23,940
20. 2019-10-23 | Aref El Rayess \(Lebanese, 1928\-2005\) \- Untitled \(from the Desert Series\) | Christie's | N/A
21. 2019-10-23 | Aref El Rayess \(Lebanese, 1928\-2005\) \- Elasticità e resistenza | Christie's | N/A
22. 2019-03-23 | Aref El Rayess \(Lebanese, 1928\-2005\) \- Untitled \(from the Desert series\) | Christie's | $72,500
23. 2017-11-14 | AREF EL RAYESS \| Untitled | Sotheby's | N/A
24. 2017-04-25 | AREF EL RAYESS \| Reclining Nude | Sotheby's | N/A

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