# François Craenhals - Auction Profile

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Updated: 2026-04-29T07:07:20.289Z

## Summary
- Lots tracked: 26
- Lots with prices: 14
- First auction date: 2012-11-24
- Latest auction date: 2025-11-29
- Median realised price: $650
- Price range: $100 to $5,250

## Market Takeaway
François Craenhals has 26 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $650. Category concentration is still broad. Last 12 months recorded 2 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 \($650\) as a typical result and the typical low/high band \($325 to $1,000\) 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: 64.3% (9 sales)
- $1,000 to $10,000: 35.7% (5 sales)
- $10,000\+: 0% (0 sales)

## Recent Trend & Velocity
- Last 12 months sales: 2
- Previous 12 months sales: 1
- Recent 12 months median: $0
- Previous 12 months median: $100
- Median shift: 0%
- Latest sale date: 2025-11-29
- Days since latest sale: 150
- Market velocity: steady

## Top Auction Houses
- Artcurial: 13 lots
- Christie's: 3 lots
- Fichter Kunsthandel: 2 lots
- Maison Jules Veilinghuis: 2 lots
- Sotheby's: 2 lots
- Tessier & Sarrou et Associes: 2 lots
- Septimus: 1 lots
- Tajan: 1 lots

## Top Categories
- N/A

## Recent Sold Lots
1. 2025-11-29 | François CRAENHALS \(1926\-2004\), ink drawing 'A tous scrabbleurs, Doct.', illustrated comic strip Les cavaliers de l'apocalypse | Maison Jules Veilinghuis | N/A
2. 2025-09-20 | François CRAENHALS \(1926\-2004\), ink drawing 'A tous scrabbleurs, Doct.', illustrated comic strip Les cavaliers de l'apocalypse | Maison Jules Veilinghuis | N/A
3. 2021-11-20 | François CRAENHALS | Artcurial | N/A
4. 2021-11-20 | François CRAENHALS | Artcurial | N/A
5. 2020-12-20 | François Craenhals | Septimus | €1,000
6. 2020-12-12 | François CRAENHALS \(1926\-2004\). Chevalier Ardent \- Le trésor du mage Encre de Chine sur papier pour la planche 4 de l'album. | Tessier & Sarrou et Associes | €500
7. 2020-12-12 | François CRAENHALS \(1926\-2004\). Pom et Teddy \- Zone interdite Encre de Chine sur papier pour la planche 53 de l'album. | Tessier & Sarrou et Associes | N/A
8. 2020-06-27 | François CRAENHALS | Artcurial | €650
9. 2020-06-27 | François CRAENHALS | Artcurial | €1,560
10. 2019-11-20 | FRANÇOIS CRAENHALS \(1926\-2004\) \- Chevalier Ardent \- La corne de brume | Christie's | €1,000
11. 2019-11-20 | FRANÇOIS CRAENHALS \(1926\-2004\) \- Pom et Teddy \- Le léopard des neiges | Christie's | N/A
12. 2019-04-27 | François CRAENHALS | Artcurial | N/A
13. 2018-05-05 | FRANÇOIS CRAENHALS \- CHEVALIER ARDENT | Christie's | €5,250
14. 2016-03-12 | François Craenhals \(1926\-2004\)Pom et Teddy, Le Léopard des neiges Tome 5 | Tajan | €650
15. 2015-11-21 | François CRAENHALS 1926\-2004 LES 4 AS | Artcurial | €325
16. 2015-10-24 | FRANÇOIS CRAENHALS \(1926\-2004\) AVENTURE À SARAJEVO \| François Craenhals \(1926\-2004\) | Sotheby's | €350
17. 2015-10-24 | FRANÇOIS CRAENHALS \(1926\-2004\) POM ET TEDDY, LE MICROFILM \| François Craenhals \(1926\-2004\) | Sotheby's | €1,000
18. 2015-05-23 | François CRAENHALS | Artcurial | €253
19. 2015-05-23 | François CRAENHALS | Artcurial | €316
20. 2012-11-24 | CRAENHALS | Artcurial | N/A
21. 2012-11-24 | CRAENHALS | Artcurial | N/A
22. 2012-11-24 | CRAENHALS | Artcurial | N/A
23. 2012-11-24 | CRAENHALS | Artcurial | N/A
24. 2024-07-27 | F. HALS \(\*1580\) after BAILLIE \(\*1723\), Portrait of Frans Hals \(?\), 1765, Mezzotint | Fichter Kunsthandel | €100

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