# Federico Ballesio - Auction Profile

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Updated: 2026-04-29T12:56:23.966Z

## Summary
- Lots tracked: 22
- Lots with prices: 16
- First auction date: 1995-06-14
- Latest auction date: 2025-10-17
- Median realised price: $2,300
- Price range: $350 to $21,292

## Market Takeaway
Federico Ballesio has 22 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $2,300. Category concentration is still broad. Last 12 months recorded 1 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 \($2,300\) as a typical result and the typical low/high band \($1,000 to $3,346\) 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: 18.8% (3 sales)
- $1,000 to $10,000: 68.8% (11 sales)
- $10,000\+: 12.5% (2 sales)

## Recent Trend & Velocity
- Last 12 months sales: 1
- Previous 12 months sales: 1
- Recent 12 months median: $3,172
- Previous 12 months median: $0
- Median shift: N/A
- Latest sale date: 2025-10-17
- Days since latest sale: 194
- Market velocity: steady

## Top Auction Houses
- Christie's: 7 lots
- Bonhams: 4 lots
- Freeman's: 2 lots
- Carnegie's Auction Gallery: 1 lots
- Concept Art Gallery: 1 lots
- Dallas Auction Gallery: 1 lots
- Dargate Auction Galleries: 1 lots
- Eldred's: 1 lots
- Gorringes: 1 lots
- Jeffrey S. Evans & Associates: 1 lots

## Top Categories
- N/A

## Recent Sold Lots
1. 2024-12-15 | Federico Ballesio Watercolor painting Rug merchant in tent | Carnegie's Auction Gallery | N/A
2. 2025-10-17 | FEDERICO BALLESIO \(ITALIAN, 1852\-1943\) INTERIOR GENRE SCENE WITH ROMAN CATHOLIC CARDINAL | Jeffrey S. Evans & Associates | $3,172 | source: https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot-federico-ballesio-italian-1852-1943-interior-genre-scene-with-roman-catholic-cardinal-1044-c-bd13274592
3. 2021-08-19 | Federico Ballesio \(Italian, active 1880\-1920\) A favorite melody 20 1/2 x 29in \(52.1 x 73.7cm\) \(sight\) | Bonhams | $1,000
4. 2020-11-18 | Federico Ballesio \(Italian, 1852–1943\) \- The Carpet Seller | Christie's | N/A
5. 2019-01-27 | FEDERICO BALLESIO \(1852\-1943\). Italian watercolor. Peasant woman with an orange. Signed lower left. 40''H x 26''W | Dargate Auction Galleries | $700
6. 2015-02-28 | FEDERICO BALLESIO, Italian, 1852\-1943, A young musician with two young ladies in a courtyard., Watercolor, 20.5" x 14.25" sight. Fra... | Eldred's | $350
7. 2013-10-02 | Federico Ballesio, "The Concert" watercolor | Dallas Auction Gallery | $2,300
8. 2013-05-11 | Federico Ballesio orientalist w/c "Inside the Harem" | Concept Art Gallery | $3,400
9. 2010-10-29 | Federico Ballesio \(Italian, active 1880\-1920\) An Oriental beauty at rest 15 x 21 1/2in \(38.1 x 54.7cm\) | Bonhams | N/A
10. 2009-04-21 | Federico Ballesio \(Italian, active 1880\-1920\) Hoping for a miracle 32 1/2 x 20in \(82.5 x 50.7cm\) | Bonhams | N/A
11. 2006-09-06 | Federico Ballesio \(ITALIAN, 19th Century\) | Christie's | $1,140
12. 2006-02-21 | Federico Ballesio \(19th Century\) Italian | Bonhams | £3,100
13. 2005-11-25 | Federico Ballesio \(19th century Italian\) Cardinal with a Fashionable Young Couple Playing Chess in a Richly Decorated Interior Signed, watercolour heightened with white, 38cm by 51cm \(15in by 20in\) \*Contained within its original elaborately decorated | Tennants | £3,000
14. 2004-09-08 | Federico Ballesio \(Italian, 19th Century\) | Christie's | $5,736
15. 2004-01-14 | Federico Ballesio \(Italian, Early 20th Century\) | Christie's | $3,346
16. 2003-02-12 | Federico Ballesio \(19th Century\) Italian Watercolour Italian peasant girl holding a cabbage signed 25ins. x 18.5ins. | Gorringes | £380
17. 2002-08-29 | Federico Ballesio \(19th Century\) | Christie's | N/A
18. 2002-06-23 | FEDERICO BALLESIO \(Italian 19th Century\) 'A MOTHER'S DARLING' | Freeman's | $1,700
19. 2002-06-23 | FEDERICO BALLESIO \(Italian 19th Century\) A MOTHERS DARLING | Freeman's | $1,700
20. 2002-06-21 | Federico Ballesio \(Italian, 19th Century\) | Christie's | N/A
21. 2002-03-21 | Federico Ballesio \(Italian, 19th Century\) | Christie's | $20,022
22. 1995-06-14 | FEDERICO BALLESIO \(ITALIAN 19TH CENTURY\) FLIRTING WITH THE CARPET SELLER | Sotheby's | $21,292

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