# Francesco Ballesio - Auction Profile

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Updated: 2026-04-29T12:55:49.914Z

## Summary
- Lots tracked: 61
- Lots with prices: 44
- First auction date: 2006-10-24
- Latest auction date: 2025-06-12
- Median realised price: $5,000
- Price range: $200 to $37,500

## Market Takeaway
Francesco Ballesio has 61 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $5,000. 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 \($5,000\) as a typical result and the typical low/high band \($1,610 to $12,500\) 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: 20.5% (9 sales)
- $1,000 to $10,000: 50% (22 sales)
- $10,000\+: 29.5% (13 sales)

## Recent Trend & Velocity
- Last 12 months sales: 1
- Previous 12 months sales: 2
- Recent 12 months median: $400
- Previous 12 months median: $600
- Median shift: 0%
- Latest sale date: 2025-06-12
- Days since latest sale: 321
- Market velocity: steady

## Top Auction Houses
- Bonhams: 12 lots
- Dargate Auction Galleries: 7 lots
- Sotheby's: 5 lots
- Broward Auction Gallery LLC: 3 lots
- Christie's: 3 lots
- Quinn's Auction Galleries: 3 lots
- Casa d'Aste Babuino: 2 lots
- Dorotheum: 2 lots
- Neal Auction Company: 2 lots
- New Orleans Auction Galleries: 2 lots

## Top Categories
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## Recent Sold Lots
1. 2008-05-03 | Francesco Ballesio Framed Watercolor Painting | Rock Island Auction Company | $1,610
2. 2025-06-12 | Francesco Ballesio | Colasanti Casa d'Aste | €400
3. 2024-12-10 | Francesco Ballesio \(Torino 1860\-Tivoli 1923\) \- Oriental figure | Finarte | N/A
4. 2024-06-01 | Francesco Ballesio \(Italian, 1860\-1923\) watercolor | Rachel Davis Fine Arts | $600
5. 2024-02-21 | Francesco Ballesio \(Turin 1860\-1923 Tivoli\) Oppia. Vestale Incestuosa | Bonhams | €8,000
6. 2023-12-05 | WATERCOLOR BY FRANCESCO BALLESIO | Casa d'Aste Babuino | €650
7. 2023-10-25 | Francesco Ballesio \(Italian, 1860\-1923\) The favourite of the Sultan | Bonhams | £8,000
8. 2023-10-19 | Francesco Ballesio | DOYLE Auctioneers & Appraisers | $3,000
9. 2022-12-14 | WATERCOLOR BY FRANCESCO BALLESIO | Casa d'Aste Babuino | €250
10. 2022-10-23 | Francesco Ballesio watercolor | Rachel Davis Fine Arts | $2,600
11. 2022-06-14 | Soldiers at the tavern | Casa d'aste ARCADIA | N/A
12. 2022-06-14 | Francesco Ballesio \(Italian, 1860\-1923\) The new carpet | Bonhams | £4,000
13. 2022-06-14 | Francesco Ballesio \(Italian, 1860\-1923\) The green fan | Bonhams | N/A
14. 2022-06-14 | Francesco Ballesio \(Italian, 1860\-1923\) The carpet seller | Bonhams | £15,000
15. 2022-04-20 | Francesco Ballesio \(Italian, 1860\-1923\) | Hindman | $2,000
16. 2021-10-20 | Francesco Ballesio \(Italian, 1860\-1923\) The carpet merchant | Bonhams | £8,500
17. 2020-11-08 | Francesco Ballesio \(Italy,1860\-1923\) watercolor painting antique | Broward Auction Gallery LLC | N/A
18. 2020-08-09 | Francesco Ballesio \(Italy,1860\-1923\) watercolor painting antique | Broward Auction Gallery LLC | N/A
19. 2020-06-07 | Francesco Ballesio \(Italy,1860\-1923\) watercolor painting antique | Broward Auction Gallery LLC | $2,900
20. 2020-04-29 | Francesco Ballesio \(Italian, 1860\-1923\) Parlor Scene with Cardinal, Watercolor gouache on paper, | Gray's Auctioneers | $2,200
21. 2020-01-18 | Francesco Ballesio \(Italian, 1860\-1923\) | Fontaine's Auction Gallery | $5,300
22. 2019-09-29 | Francesco ballesio \(1860\-1923\) Watercolor | Main Auction Galleries | $4,100
23. 2018-05-24 | Francesco Ballesio \(Torino 1860 \- Tivoli 1923\) | Finarte Roma | N/A
24. 2018-05-06 | FRANCESCO BALLESIO \(Italian 1860\-1923\) Gypsy woman selling oranges, watercolor and gouache, signed lower left F. Ballesio. Contained in period ornate gilt gessoed frame under glass. Condition: chips and wear to frame. Dimensions: 40'' X 26 1/8'', frame 53'' X 39''. | Dargate Auction Galleries | N/A

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