# Wolfgang Paalen - Auction Profile

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Updated: 2026-05-01T07:19:28.572Z

## Summary
- Lots tracked: 86
- Lots with prices: 71
- First auction date: 2001-11-19
- Latest auction date: 2025-05-29
- Median realised price: $30,000
- Price range: $300 to $756,000

## Market Takeaway
Wolfgang Paalen shows solid auction liquidity with 86 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $30,000. Category concentration is still broad or sparse. Last 12 months recorded 3 sales. Latest recorded sale: 2025-05-29.

## How To Read This Data
- Use the median \($30,000\) as a typical result; many comparable sales cluster between $12,500 and $64,625.
- 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: 4.2% (3 sales)
- $1,000 to $10,000: 11.3% (8 sales)
- $10,000\+: 84.5% (60 sales)

## Recent Trend & Velocity
- Last 12 months sales: 3
- Previous 12 months sales: 11
- Recent 12 months median: $1,900
- Previous 12 months median: $7,500
- Median shift: 0%
- Latest sale date: 2025-05-29
- Days since latest sale: 265
- Market velocity: steady

## Top Auction Houses
- Christie's: 46 lots
- Sotheby's: 14 lots
- RoGallery: 5 lots
- Bonhams: 3 lots
- Hindman: 3 lots
- Artcurial: 2 lots
- Cambi Casa d'Aste: 2 lots
- Gros\-Delettrez: 2 lots
- Koller Auctions: 2 lots
- Piasa: 2 lots

## Top Categories
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## Recent Sold Lots
1. 2025-05-29 | WOLFGANG PAALEN, ABSTRACT COMPOSITION, WOODBLOCK ON JAPON | RoGallery | N/A
2. 2025-05-15 | WOLFGANG PAALEN \(1905\-1959\) Sans titre \(Executed in 1954\) 2 5/16 x 6 5/16 in \(5.9 x 16 cm\) | Bonhams | $1,900
3. 2025-03-05 | WOLFGANG PAALEN \(1905\-1959\). La roue de l'orage. oil and tempera on canvas7 | Christie's | £189,000
4. 2024-11-29 | WOLFGANG PAALEN | Koller Auctions | CHF 7,500
5. 2024-09-24 | Wolfgang Paalen \(1905\-1959\). Les Fantômes de la pyramide. huile et fumage s | Christie's | N/A
6. 2024-09-12 | WOLFGANG PAALEN, ABSTRACT COMPOSITION, WOODBLOCK ON JAPON | RoGallery | $325
7. 2024-06-21 | WOLFGANG PAALEN | Koller Auctions | N/A
8. 2024-06-13 | WOLFGANG PAALEN, VILLAGE, ETCHING | RoGallery | $550
9. 2024-06-13 | WOLFGANG PAALEN, ARCANES, ETCHING | RoGallery | $300
10. 2024-06-13 | WOLFGANG PAALEN, ABSTRACT COMPOSITION, WOODBLOCK ON JAPON | RoGallery | N/A
11. 2024-06-05 | Wolfgang Paalen \(Vienne, 1907 \- Taxco, 1959\) Fumage, 1938 | Piasa | €68,000
12. 2024-06-05 | Wolfgang PAALEN | Artcurial | N/A
13. 2024-06-05 | Wolfgang PAALEN | Artcurial | €8,500
14. 2024-05-21 | WOLFGANG PAALEN \(1905 \- 1959\) Indian Summer Oil on canvas, 145 x 130cm Signed and dated \(19\)59; inscribed and dated 1959 verso Provenance: John Huston Collection, St. Clerans, Co. Galway; Private Collection, Dublin The main concern is no | Adam's | €50,000 | source: https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot-wolfgang-paalen-1905-1959-indian-summer-oil-on-canvas-145-x-130cm-signed-and-dated-19-59-inscribed-and-dated-1959-verso-provenance-john-huston-collection-st-clerans-co-galway-private-collection-dublin-the-main-concern-is-no-29-c-0544461a8a
15. 2023-11-14 | Rencontre sur une plage | Sotheby's | N/A
16. 2023-11-14 | Sans titre | Sotheby's | $38,100
17. 2023-06-27 | Wolfgang Paalen 1907–1959 | Artcurial Beurret Bailly Widmer | N/A
18. 2023-04-05 | Wolfgang Paalen \(1905\-1959\) Cosmogones huile sur toile 65 x 50 cm. | Christie's | €81,900
19. 2023-03-03 | WOLFGANG PAALEN \(1905\-1959\) Projét pour un monument Tzalam "wild Tamarind" | Christie's | £119,700
20. 2023-02-28 | WOLFGANG PAALEN \(1905\-1959\) Pays interdit oil and fumage on canvas 36 1/4 x | Christie's | £504,000
21. 2023-02-28 | WOLFGANG PAALEN \(1905\-1959\) Taches solaires oil and fumage on canvas 51 x 3 | Christie's | £756,000
22. 2023-02-10 | Wolfgang Paalen \(Austrian/Mexican, 1905\-1959\) Untitled, 1943 | Hindman | $16,000
23. 2023-02-10 | Wolfgang Paalen \(Austrian/Mexican, 1905\-1959\) Untitled, 1947 | Hindman | $37,500
24. 2023-02-10 | Wolfgang Paalen \(Austrian/Mexican, 1905\-1959\) Untitled, 1943 | Hindman | $130,000 | source: https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot-wolfgang-paalen-austrian-mexican-1905-1959-untitled-1943-66-c-bb64ef898a

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