# Franco Minei - Auction Profile

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Updated: 2026-04-29T09:10:05.003Z

## Summary
- Lots tracked: 59
- Lots with prices: 48
- First auction date: 2012-02-25
- Latest auction date: 2025-08-20
- Median realised price: $450
- Price range: $25 to $5,500

## Market Takeaway
Franco Minei has 59 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $450. Category concentration is still broad. Last 12 months recorded 4 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 \($450\) as a typical result and the typical low/high band \($200 to $750\) 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: 83.3% (40 sales)
- $1,000 to $10,000: 16.7% (8 sales)
- $10,000\+: 0% (0 sales)

## Recent Trend & Velocity
- Last 12 months sales: 4
- Previous 12 months sales: 2
- Recent 12 months median: $175
- Previous 12 months median: $250
- Median shift: 0%
- Latest sale date: 2025-08-20
- Days since latest sale: 251
- Market velocity: steady

## Top Auction Houses
- Millea Bros Ltd: 39 lots
- Accademia Fine Art: 3 lots
- David Killen Gallery: 3 lots
- Direct Auction Galleries, Inc.: 2 lots
- Hill Auction Gallery: 2 lots
- New Orleans Auction Galleries: 2 lots
- RoGallery: 2 lots
- Andrew Jones Auctions: 1 lots
- Capo Auction: 1 lots
- HVMC \- Hôtel des Ventes de Monte\-Carlo: 1 lots

## Top Categories
- N/A

## Recent Sold Lots
1. 2025-08-20 | Franco Minei \(Italian, b. 1922\), The Night Visitors, 1985, oil on canvas, 65 x 69in \(165 x 176cm\) | Andrew Jones Auctions | $1,000
2. 2025-07-17 | Franco Minei, oil pastel and ink on paper, 1982 | Millea Bros Ltd | N/A
3. 2025-07-16 | Franco Minei, oil on canvas, 1966 | Millea Bros Ltd | $175
4. 2025-07-16 | Franco Minei, tempera on paper | Millea Bros Ltd | $150
5. 2025-03-27 | Franco Minei, Surrealist oil on canvas, 1975 | Millea Bros Ltd | $250
6. 2024-12-13 | Franco Minei Oil, "La Vita e Sogno" | Neue Auctions | $1,500
7. 2023-10-12 | Franco Minei, oil on canvas, 1966 | Millea Bros Ltd | $325
8. 2023-10-12 | Franco Minei, Surrealist oil on canvas, 1975 | Millea Bros Ltd | $250
9. 2023-02-24 | Franco Minei, tempera painting, 1969 | Millea Bros Ltd | $650
10. 2023-02-24 | Franco Minei, oil on wood panel, 1961 | Millea Bros Ltd | $450
11. 2023-02-23 | Franco Minei, tempera on paper, 1963 | Millea Bros Ltd | $325
12. 2023-02-23 | Franco Minei, oil on wood panel, 1978 | Millea Bros Ltd | $750
13. 2023-02-22 | Franco Minei, tempera on panel, 1964 | Millea Bros Ltd | $650
14. 2023-02-16 | FRANCO MINEI \(1922\) The spring, 1961 | Accademia Fine Art | N/A
15. 2023-02-16 | FRANCO MINEI \(1922\) La fin de l'été, 1963 | Accademia Fine Art | N/A
16. 2023-02-16 | FRANCO MINEI \(1922\) Honeymoon, 1961 | Accademia Fine Art | N/A
17. 2022-10-12 | Franco Minei, tempera on wood panel, 1964 | Millea Bros Ltd | $325
18. 2022-10-04 | Franco Minei, "Fiera e Maschere" | Old Kinderhook Auction Company | $450
19. 2022-10-01 | Franco Minei Painting of Performers in a Plaza. | Direct Auction Galleries, Inc. | N/A
20. 2022-06-23 | Franco Minei, oil on wood panel, 1964 | Millea Bros Ltd | $425
21. 2022-06-23 | Franco Minei, tempera on panel, 1964 | Millea Bros Ltd | $375
22. 2022-06-23 | Franco Minei, large tempera on panel | Millea Bros Ltd | $300
23. 2022-06-22 | Franco Minei, tempera on wood panel, 1972\-1973 | Millea Bros Ltd | $150
24. 2022-06-22 | Franco Minei, tempera on paper, 1963 | Millea Bros Ltd | $150

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