# Franz Xaver Messerschmidt - Auction Profile

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Updated: 2026-04-29T10:46:35.783Z

## Summary
- Lots tracked: 23
- Lots with prices: 20
- First auction date: 2010-05-21
- Latest auction date: 2025-12-21
- Median realised price: $1,500
- Price range: $110 to $22,680

## Market Takeaway
Franz Xaver Messerschmidt has 23 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $1,500. 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 \($1,500\) as a typical result and the typical low/high band \($700 to $3,800\) 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: 35% (7 sales)
- $1,000 to $10,000: 55% (11 sales)
- $10,000\+: 10% (2 sales)

## Recent Trend & Velocity
- Last 12 months sales: 4
- Previous 12 months sales: 6
- Recent 12 months median: $1,500
- Previous 12 months median: $4,000
- Median shift: 0%
- Latest sale date: 2025-12-21
- Days since latest sale: 129
- Market velocity: steady

## Top Auction Houses
- Deutsch Auktionen: 8 lots
- Kunstauktionshaus Schloss Ahlden: 4 lots
- Christie's: 2 lots
- New Orleans Auction Galleries: 2 lots
- Clarke Auction Gallery: 1 lots
- Galleria Sarno: 1 lots
- Hampel Fine Art Auctions: 1 lots
- Heritage Auctions: 1 lots
- Mallams: 1 lots
- Morgan Auctions: 1 lots

## Top Categories
- N/A

## Recent Sold Lots
1. 2025-01-31 | Franz Xaver Messerschmidt \(1736\-1783\)\- follower | Deutsch Auktionen | €14,000
2. 2025-01-31 | Franz Xaver Messerschmidt \(1736\-1783\)\- follower | Deutsch Auktionen | €4,000
3. 2025-01-31 | Franz Xaver Messerschmidt \(1736\-1783\)\- follower | Deutsch Auktionen | €3,800
4. 2025-12-21 | Franz Xaver MESSERSCHMIDT \(1736\-1783\), d'après Figure d’expression en bro | Osenat | €1,500
5. 2025-10-07 | Franz Xaver Messerschmidt \(1736 – 1783\) – After | Deutsch Auktionen | €1,500
6. 2025-10-07 | Franz Xaver Messerschmidt \(1736 – 1783\) – After | Deutsch Auktionen | €700
7. 2025-10-07 | Franz Xaver Messerschmidt \(1736 – 1783\) – After | Deutsch Auktionen | €2,200
8. 2025-02-28 | Franz Xaver Messerschmidt \(1736/1783\) \(attr.\) "Teste di Carattere" \- Lo Sbadiglio | Galleria Sarno | N/A
9. 2024-10-22 | A LARGE FRENCH ORMOLU\-MOUNTED MAHOGANY THRONE CHAIR. AFTER THE MODEL BY FRA | Christie's | $22,680
10. 2024-05-26 | Franz Xaver Messerschmidt "The Yawner" Sculpture | Morgan Auctions | $330
11. 2023-11-21 | Franz Xaver Messerschmidt \(1736\-1783\)\-follower | Deutsch Auktionen | €6,000
12. 2023-11-21 | Franz Xaver Messerschmidt \(1736\-1783\)\-follower | Deutsch Auktionen | €5,400
13. 2022-10-02 | FRANZ XAVER MESSERSCHMIDT \(GERMAN, 1736\-1783\). | Clarke Auction Gallery | $800
14. 2022-05-14 | Franz Xaver Messerschmidt | Kunstauktionshaus Schloss Ahlden | €1,500
15. 2022-05-14 | Franz Xaver Messerschmidt | Kunstauktionshaus Schloss Ahlden | €1,600
16. 2021-05-14 | Franz Xaver Messerschmidt | Kunstauktionshaus Schloss Ahlden | €3,300
17. 2021-05-14 | Franz Xaver Messerschmidt | Kunstauktionshaus Schloss Ahlden | €1,600 | source: https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot-franz-xaver-messerschmidt-2776-c-25f48d68de
18. 2016-11-16 | A CASED SET OF SILVER TEASPOONS with faceted handles, Sheffield 1927 by Fra | Mallams | £150 | source: https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot-a-cased-set-of-silver-teaspoons-with-faceted-handles-sheffield-1927-by-fra-323-c-d02439d982
19. 2016-07-20 | SEVENTEEN COLOURED ENGRAVINGS OF BIRDS LATE 18TH CENTURY, ENGRAVED BY FRA | Christie's | N/A
20. 2015-02-21 | AN AUSTRIAN EROTIC COLD\-PAINTED BRONZE FIGURE AFTER FRA | Heritage Auctions | $875 | source: https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot-an-austrian-erotic-cold-painted-bronze-figure-after-fra-61372-c-89740a9a5c
21. 2012-12-07 | Marmorbüste eines Mannes | Hampel Fine Art Auctions | N/A
22. 2010-05-21 | Franz Xaver Messerschmidt \(German, 1736\-1793\), a | New Orleans Auction Galleries | $110
23. 2010-05-21 | Franz Xaver Messerschmidt \(German, 1736\-1793\), a | New Orleans Auction Galleries | $246

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