Moshé Elazar Castel Auction Prices and Value Guide

Moshé Elazar Castel auction prices are tracked in Appraisily's artist market index, with source-directory coverage of 1,940 records. Use this page to review sold-lot activity, market context, and valuation factors before requesting a formal appraisal.

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Artist
Moshé Elazar Castel
Source records
1,940
Market update
2026-02-06

Artist context

About Moshé Elazar Castel

Moshé Elazar Castel (1909–1991) was an Israeli painter born in Jerusalem. He studied art in Jerusalem and later in Paris, where he lived and worked from the late 1920s through 1940. After returning to Palestine, he settled in the artists' colony of Safed in the Galilee. Castel became associated with the New Horizons (Ofakim Hadashim) movement, a group of Israeli artists who pursued modernist abstraction while engaging with local landscape and cultural identity. His work is held by the Moshe Castel Museum of Art, dedicated to his legacy. Castel is listed in the Bénézit Dictionary of Artists and is recorded in the Library of Congress Name Authority File, the RKD Netherlands Institute for Art History, and VIAF.

New Horizons (Ofakim Hadashim)painting

Common works and media

Castel is primarily known as a painter. Works encountered at auction and appraisal include oil paintings on canvas and board, watercolors, and works on paper. His subjects range from figurative compositions and biblical themes to abstracted landscapes inspired by the Galilee region around Safed. Lithographic prints and reproduction posters of his paintings also circulate in the secondary market.

Market and appraisal context

Moshé Elazar Castel has a substantial secondary-market footprint, with approximately 1,940 documented auction lots and activity spanning 2007 through 2025. The priced subset of 24 recent lots (9 with realized prices) shows wide dispersion: from €140 for a later work at Auktionshaus Schwab to $90,000 USD for 'Hallelujah' at Christie's in 2007. The median stands at $14,400 and the 75th percentile at $36,000. The strongest prices cluster around significant paintings sold at Christie's and Cornette de Saint-Cyr (€62,960 for a 1931 Paris-period work). Recent liquidity is moderate—4 lots in the trailing 12 months versus 5 in the prior 12 months—with many recent offerings at Auktionshaus Schwab lacking published results. The artist is represented at both blue-chip houses (Christie's) and specialist Israeli-art dealers (Montefiore Auction House), indicating healthy cross-regional demand.

Auction categories and appraisal factors

Common auction categories

  • Israeli & International Art
  • painting

Value drivers

  1. Large body of work with extensive auction history (approximately 1,940 documented lots)
  2. Museum-dedicated artist with institutional recognition (Moshe Castel Museum of Art)
  3. Period: early Paris-period works (late 1920s–1931) achieve significantly higher prices than later serial compositions from the 1980s
  4. Medium: original oil paintings on canvas or board command the strongest results; lithographic prints and posters trade near the low end of the range
  5. Subject: biblical and figurative themes such as 'Hallelujah' and 'Kings of Israel' are recurring motifs; earlier pastoral scenes (e.g. 'Scène de berger, 1931') carry premiums
  6. Provenance: documented exhibition history, estate stamps, or references to the Moshe Castel Museum strengthen buyer confidence and price

Appraisal caveats

  • Specific auction prices and sale records should be verified against current databases; the source pack does not include detailed realized-price data.
  • Some sources list death year as 1992 rather than 1991; attribution of late works should account for this discrepancy.
  • Only 9 of 24 recent lots have published realized prices; many recent Auktionshaus Schwab offerings show null results, which may indicate unsold lots, withdrawn works, or unreported prices.
  • The full body of approximately 1,940 documented lots is broader than the 24-lot recent sample; the price distribution here reflects only the priced subset and may not represent the complete market range.

Evidence

Sources for artist context

This source-grounded artist context passed Appraisily's promotion threshold: high confidence, strong sources.

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Data basis

This page is built from Appraisily's public auction market index. Private transactions, incomplete sale feeds, and attribution changes may not be fully represented.

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