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Over the last 24 months the median price was $2,544 including buyer’s premium (middle half $2,259–$2,577, n=5). The auction record is $71,217 for a winter landscape with figures conversing outside a village (2008, Sotheby's). Source: OpeningBid, an independent auction-results database.","title":"Klaes Molenaer value: auction records & prices (updated Nov 2026)"}}