# Willy Kessels - Auction Profile

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Updated: 2026-06-19T01:51:04.593Z

## Summary
- Lots tracked: 78
- Lots with prices: 33
- First auction date: 1992-10-13
- Latest auction date: 2025-12-12
- Median realised price: $400
- Price range: $50 to $10,000

## Market Takeaway
Willy Kessels shows solid auction liquidity with 77 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $400. Category concentration is still broad or sparse. Last 12 months recorded 5 sales. Latest recorded sale: 2025-12-12.

## How To Read This Data
- Use the median \($400\) as a typical result; many comparable sales cluster between $200 and $800.
- Auction totals can include buyer premiums or fees depending on reporting, so compare like\-for\-like when possible.
- Condition, size, medium, provenance, and attribution confidence can move value materially versus median comps.

## Price Bands
- Under $1,000: 78.8% (26 sales)
- $1,000 to $10,000: 18.2% (6 sales)
- $10,000\+: 3% (1 sales)

## Recent Trend & Velocity
- Last 12 months sales: 5
- Previous 12 months sales: 5
- Recent 12 months median: $125
- Previous 12 months median: $280
- Median shift: 0%
- Latest sale date: 2025-12-12
- Days since latest sale: 68
- Market velocity: steady

## Top Auction Houses
- Bernaerts Auctioneers: 19 lots
- Cornette de Saint\-Cyr\-Bruxelles: 17 lots
- Sotheby's: 5 lots
- Kunsthaus Lempertz KG: 4 lots
- Pierre Bergé & Associés: 4 lots
- Alain & Evelyne Morel de Westgaver: 3 lots
- Bonhams: 3 lots
- Finarte: 3 lots
- Schneider\-Henn: 3 lots
- Arenberg Auctions: 2 lots

## Top Categories
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## Recent Sold Lots
1. 2025-12-12 | Portrait d'une femme. | Arenberg Auctions | €50
2. 2025-12-04 | WILLY KESSELS \(1898\-1974\) | Bernaerts Auctioneers | €400
3. 2025-06-13 | Photos de l'enterrement d'une religieuse à l'abbaye Notre\-Dame de Clairefontaine. | Arenberg Auctions | €400
4. 2025-04-29 | WILLY KESSELS \(1898\-1974\) | Bernaerts Auctioneers | €90
5. 2025-04-24 | Willy Kessels "Microphotographie" Silver Print | Auctions at Showplace | $125
6. 2025-02-17 | Willy KESSELS \(1898\-1974\), photography, marked with stamp W Kessels | Maison Jules Veilinghuis | €150
7. 2024-05-27 | WILLY KESSELS \(1898\-1974\) Akarova dans le Bolero de Maurice Ravel | Bonhams | N/A
8. 2024-04-25 | WILLY KESSELS \(1898\-1974\) | Bernaerts Auctioneers | N/A
9. 2024-04-25 | WILLY KESSELS \(1898\-1974\) | Bernaerts Auctioneers | €280
10. 2024-04-25 | WILLY KESSELS \(1898\-1974\) | Bernaerts Auctioneers | €400
11. 2023-08-02 | Willy Kessels, Untitled | Los Angeles Modern Auctions | $400
12. 2022-06-26 | Willy KESSELS \(1898\-1974\) | Maison Jules Veilinghuis | N/A
13. 2022-06-15 | WILLY KESSELS \(1898–1975\) | OstLicht Auctions | €800
14. 2022-06-09 | WILLY KESSELS \(1898\-1974\) | Bernaerts Auctioneers | N/A
15. 2022-04-28 | Willy Kessels \(1898\-1974\) \- Untitled \(Still life\), 1930s | Finarte | N/A
16. 2022-04-07 | Willy Kessels \(1898\-1974\); Untitled; | Bonhams | N/A
17. 2021-12-15 | Willy Kessels \(1898\-1974\) \- Untitled \(Pic\-nic\), years 1950 | Finarte | N/A
18. 2021-12-15 | Willy Kessels \(1898\-1974\) \- Untitled, \(Nude\), years 1930 | Finarte | N/A
19. 2021-12-09 | WILLY KESSELS \(1898\-1974\) | Bernaerts Auctioneers | €160
20. 2021-12-09 | WILLY KESSELS \(1898\-1974\) | Bernaerts Auctioneers | €400
21. 2021-12-09 | WILLY KESSELS \(1898\-1974\) | Bernaerts Auctioneers | €500
22. 2021-12-09 | WILLY KESSELS \(1898\-1974\) | Bernaerts Auctioneers | €350
23. 2021-12-09 | WILLY KESSELS \(1898\-1974\) | Bernaerts Auctioneers | €200
24. 2021-12-09 | WILLY KESSELS \(1898\-1974\) | Bernaerts Auctioneers | €450

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