Arenberg Auctions

29/09/2026

Full speed ahead for our October auction this Thursday! 🏃‍➡️

📸 lot 366: Amis & Amille. Lithographies en couleurs de André Derain.

22/09/2026

Get ready for our next auction on Thursday 1 October at 13h! 🙌 Visit our viewing days on Friday 25, Monday 28 and Tuesday 29 September (10h-18h). 🔍 The catalogue of this sale is only available online. 💻 See you soon!

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Lot 184: Rumpf, D'Amboinsche rariteitkamer, 1741.
Lot 284: Delisle de Sales, 2 ouvrages, 1789 & 1795.
Lot 400: Tournier, Mythologie, 1971.

05/08/2026

Together with other professionals, one of our experts shared some insights with Le Soir on the latest developments in the art market. Interesting holiday read! 🤓

Malgré une économie mondiale sous tension, les maisons de ventes signent un premier semestre inattendu. Au-delà des records, 2026 révèle un marché plus international, plus sélectif et porté par une confiance retrouvée, sans dissiper la prudence.

10/07/2026

On this day in 1584, William I, stadholder of the United Provinces of the Netherlands, was assassinated.

📸 Lot 1119 of our auction last month - illustration by Jan Luyken for Pieter Christiaensz Bor's "Oorsprongk, begin en vervolgh der Nederlandsche oorlogen, beroerten en borgerlyke oneenigheden". 🔨 €850

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01/07/2026

We would love to thank all the passionate collectors for a fabulous auction last week! 🤩 Now that we have recuperated a bit from the auction (and the heat 🥵) we look back to some highlights 🏆:
1. 🥇Lot 890: Ortelius’ Theatrum Orbis Terrarum € 40.960 🗺️
2. 🥈Lot 1059: "Tannhäuser und der Sängerkrieg auf der Wartburg" with autogr. signed dedication by Wagner € 23.040 🎼
3. 🥉Lot 208: Bresdin’s Le bon Samaritain €17.920
4. Lot 271 : Khnopff’s Solitude ou L’isolement €16.640
5. Lot 64 : Schabaelje’s monumental picture bible €16.640
Honourable mentions to the manuscript with over 2.000 medical recipes by Abraham Vander Veken (€16.000), Sur le Prélude à l'Après-midi d'un faune (€12.800) and Bataille’s Histoire de l’oeil (€12.400)
Thank you again for this sunny auction and we’d love to see you again in December

26/06/2026

For the last day of our June auction, we travel around the world 🗺️, from China to Congo but also with a trip to the past with old books and manuscripts 📚and a touch of science 👩‍🔬. Hopefully you tag along on our trip! We depart at 13h ✈️

📸 lots 1012, 869, 1130, 954 & 1139

25/06/2026

What a warm days we are having now, no? 😎 And it is about to get hotter as we auction the sections erotica and surrealism today, as well as the collection Dr. V, modern literature and art. See you at 13h! 👋

📸Lots 426 (6 post cards), 533 (Georges Bataille [sous le pseud. de Lord Auch]- Histoire de l'oeil), 661 (Guy de Maupassant - Deux contes), 795 (Charles Van Lerberghe - La chanson d'Ève) & 804 Andrea Pozzo - Perspectivae pictorum atque architectorum).

24/06/2026

Preparing for a beach day? 🏖️ Today you can buy an original inflatable sculpture by Keith Haring! You'll definitely have the most unique beach toy 😉

📸 Lot 224: Inflatable baby

23/06/2026

Make sure to stay hydrated on this warm summer day!

📸 Lot 2 - Tavern scene. 17th century

23/06/2026

One of the highlights in our June auction, is an exceptional working manuscript score used by the Bohemian tenor Josef Tichatschek and dedicated by the German composer Richard Wagner (lot 1059).

La partition avait été initialement écrite pour le grand ténor Josef Tichatschek, qui devait interpréter le rôle...