# Francesco Somaini - Auction Profile

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Updated: 2026-04-29T09:30:29.324Z

## Summary
- Lots tracked: 30
- Lots with prices: 26
- First auction date: 2005-01-11
- Latest auction date: 2025-12-18
- Median realised price: $2,000
- Price range: $200 to $21,000

## Market Takeaway
Francesco Somaini has 30 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $2,000. 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 \($2,000\) as a typical result and the typical low/high band \($830 to $6,500\) 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: 26.9% (7 sales)
- $1,000 to $10,000: 53.8% (14 sales)
- $10,000\+: 19.2% (5 sales)

## Recent Trend & Velocity
- Last 12 months sales: 1
- Previous 12 months sales: 7
- Recent 12 months median: $0
- Previous 12 months median: $300
- Median shift: 0%
- Latest sale date: 2025-12-18
- Days since latest sale: 131
- Market velocity: steady

## Top Auction Houses
- Finarte: 5 lots
- Finarte Roma: 3 lots
- Christie's: 2 lots
- Clarke Auction Gallery: 2 lots
- Freeman's \| Hindman: 2 lots
- Nadeau's Auction Gallery: 2 lots
- Skinner: 2 lots
- Sotheby's: 2 lots
- Austin Auction Gallery: 1 lots
- Bonhams: 1 lots

## Top Categories
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## Recent Sold Lots
1. 2025-12-18 | FRANCESCO SOMAINI, MATRICE CON TRACCIA | Kruso Art | N/A
2. 2025-03-09 | Francesco Somaini \(Italy, 1926\-2005\). | Clarke Auction Gallery | $1,500
3. 2025-03-09 | Francesco Somaini \(Italy, 1926\-2005\). | Clarke Auction Gallery | $1,700
4. 2024-12-12 | Francesco Somaini \(Lomazzo 1926\-Como 2005\) \- Anthropomorphic landscape, 1980 | Finarte | €200
5. 2024-12-12 | Francesco Somaini \(Lomazzo 1926\-Como 2005\) \- La chanson de la Rose, 1984 | Finarte | €200
6. 2024-09-25 | Francesco Somaini \(Italian, 1926\-2005\) Primavera Altoforno I, 1963 | Freeman’s \| Hindman | $10,000
7. 2024-06-05 | Francesco Somaini \(Lomazzo 1926\-Como 2005\) \- La solitudine, 1984 | Finarte | €300
8. 2024-05-14 | Scuola italiana del XX secolo | Lucas Aste | N/A
9. 2023-05-10 | Francesco Somaini \(Lomazzo 1926\-Como 2005\) \- Anthropomorphic landscape, 1980 | Finarte | N/A
10. 2023-05-10 | Francesco Somaini \(Lomazzo 1926\-Como 2005\) \- La chanson de la Rose, 1984 | Finarte | €350
11. 2022-11-17 | Francesco Somaini \(1926\-2005\): Ordalia 1963 | STAIR | $21,000
12. 2021-10-27 | Francesco Somaini, Motivo macabro IV | Gliubich Casa d'Aste | €15,000
13. 2020-11-17 | Francesco Somaini \(Italian, 1926\-2005\), , Proposta per un Monumento II | Freeman's \| Hindman | $5,312
14. 2020-11-17 | Francesco Somaini \(Italian, 1926\-2005\), , Bagnante | Freeman's \| Hindman | $2,750
15. 2020-01-01 | Francesco Somaini \(1962 \- 2005\), United Iron Abstract on rectangular iron base, signed Somaini 61 \- 62 \- 2, Lomazzo Foundry Seal. le... | Nadeau's Auction Gallery | $2,250
16. 2019-03-17 | FRANCESCO SOMAINI \(D.2005\) INK SKETCH STUDY | Austin Auction Gallery | $800
17. 2018-12-13 | Francesco Somaini \(Lomazzo 1926 – Como 2005\) | Finarte Roma | €830
18. 2018-10-22 | FRANCESCO SOMAINI \| Obliqua. Il gesto | Sotheby's | €6,500
19. 2018-04-19 | Francesco Somaini \(Lomazzo 1926 – Como 2005\) | Finarte Roma | €5,500
20. 2018-01-01 | Francesco Somaini \(1926\-2005\), "Racconto Patetico II", bronze, Organic Form, signed Somaini, inscribed 62.88 and foundry mark \(base... | Nadeau's Auction Gallery | $6,000
21. 2017-04-26 | Francesco Somaini \(born 1926\) Nauta II, 1960 overall dimensions 15 1/2 x 20 x 11 in. \(39.4 x 50.8 x 27.9 cm\) | Bonhams | $17,500
22. 2016-04-28 | Francesco Somaini \(Lomazzo 1926 \- Como 2005\) | Finarte Roma | €400
23. 2016-04-16 | Francesco Somaini, abstract bronze | Millea Bros Ltd | $2,000
24. 2015-01-23 | Francesco Somaini \(Italian, b. 1926\), Horizontal III, Signed "Somaini" and stamped "5956" in the bronze at the bottom edge, dated "1958 | Skinner | $1,230

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