# Willys de Castro - Auction Profile

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Updated: 2026-05-01T11:44:57.643Z

## Summary
- Lots tracked: 17
- Lots with prices: 8
- First auction date: 2009-05-28
- Latest auction date: 2025-12-17
- Median realised price: $2,250
- Price range: $700 to $359,000

## Market Takeaway
Willys de Castro has 17 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $2,250. 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 \($2,250\) as a typical result and the typical low/high band \($1,100 to $47,500\) 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: 12.5% (1 sales)
- $1,000 to $10,000: 50% (4 sales)
- $10,000\+: 37.5% (3 sales)

## Recent Trend & Velocity
- Last 12 months sales: 2
- Previous 12 months sales: 1
- Recent 12 months median: $6,985
- Previous 12 months median: $1,800
- Median shift: 100%
- Latest sale date: 2025-12-17
- Days since latest sale: 135
- Market velocity: steady

## Top Auction Houses
- Christie's: 4 lots
- Sotheby's: 3 lots
- Art\-Torg: 2 lots
- Veritas Art Auctioneers: 2 lots
- Germann Auction House Ltd: 1 lots
- Karl & Faber: 1 lots
- Karl & Faber \- Timed: 1 lots
- Phillips: 1 lots
- Subastas Segre: 1 lots
- Wright: 1 lots

## Top Categories
- N/A

## Recent Sold Lots
1. 2025-12-17 | WILLYS DE CASTRO \(1923\-1988\). Composição azul. gouache on paper3 ½ x 8 ¼ in | Christie's | $6,985
2. 2025-09-30 | WILLYS DE CASTRO \(1923\-1988\) & HÉRCULES BARSOTTI \(1914\-2010\). Composição am | Christie's | N/A
3. 2025-03-31 | Willys de Castro \(1926\-1988\), "Objecto Activo", 1965 | Veritas Art Auctioneers | €1,800
4. 2023-08-04 | Willys DE CASTRO \(1926\-1988\) Brazilian | Art\-Torg | N/A
5. 2023-05-23 | WILLYS DE CASTRO \- Active Object | Subastas Segre | N/A
6. 2022-12-16 | Willys DE CASTRO \(1926\-1988\) Brazilian | Art\-Torg | N/A
7. 2022-11-30 | Willys de Castro, 1926\-1988, 2 Multiples: Objeto Ativo | Germann Auction House Ltd | CHF 1,100
8. 2022-06-15 | Willys De Castro – Ohne Titel | Karl & Faber \- Timed | N/A
9. 2021-05-03 | Willys de Castro \(1926\-1988\) | Veritas Art Auctioneers | N/A
10. 2021-04-22 | Willys de Castro, Objeto Ativo | Wright | $700
11. 2020-12-09 | Willys De Castro \- Ohne Titel | Karl & Faber | €2,250
12. 2016-11-22 | WILLYS DE CASTRO \- Untitled | Phillips | N/A
13. 2016-11-22 | WILLYS DE CASTRO \(1926\-1988\) \| Objeto ativo  | Sotheby's | N/A
14. 2014-11-25 | Willys de Castro\(1926\-1988\) | Sotheby's | $359,000
15. 2014-05-28 | Willys de Castro\(1926\-1988\) | Sotheby's | N/A
16. 2012-05-22 | Willys de Castro \(Brazilian 1926\-1988\) | Christie's | $50,000
17. 2009-05-28 | Willys de Castro \(Brazilian 1926\-1988\) | Christie's | $47,500

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