--- title: "Eva Santer: results at LLB Auction" source: LLB Auction canonical: https://www.llb-auction.com/artists/eva-santer currency: EUR price_basis: hammer, excluding buyer's premium and VAT scope: results at this auction house only --- # Eva Santer | Fact | Value | |---|---| | Born | 1988 | | Nationality | Belgian | | Lots offered at LLB Auction | 12 | | Lots sold | 8 | | Range of prices realised | €2,125 to €5,000 | | Median price realised | €3,300 | ## Lots | Work | Medium | Sale | Date | Estimate | Hammer | |---|---|---|---|---|---| | The Ocean's Silence | Oil on Canvas | Contemporary Art Summer 2026 | 7 July 2026 | €1,500 to €3,000 | €3,000 | | Lot 34. Eva Santer, The Divide (2024) | Painting | Contemporary Art Spring 2026 | 26 May 2026 | €2,000 to €4,000 | €3,000 | | Lot 35. Eva Santer, The Last Road (2024) | Painting | Contemporary Art Spring 2026 | 26 May 2026 | €3,000 to €6,000 | €3,700 | | Lot 13. Eva Santer, Isolated Wanderer (2021) | Print | Contemporary Art : Art under 500€ | 26 April 2026 | €300 to €600 | Not sold | | Lot 14. Eva Santer, The Ocean's Silence (2024) | Print | Contemporary Art : Art under 500€ | 26 April 2026 | €300 to €600 | Not sold | | LOT 15. The observer (2024) | Canvas | Contemporary Art - February 2026 | 1 March 2026 | €1,500 to €3,000 | €5,000 | | LOT 17. Echoes In Water | Oil on canvas | Contemporary Art - December 2025 | 23 December 2025 | €2,000 to €4,000 | €3,300 | | LOT 18. The Last Road | Oil on canvas | Contemporary Art - December 2025 | 23 December 2025 | €2,000 to €4,000 | €3,500 | | LOT 21. The Lovers 2023 | Canvas | Contemporary Art: Canvas & Editions 2025 | 30 November 2025 | €1,500 to €3,000 | €2,125 | | LOT 23. The Watchful Silence | Canvas | Contemporary Art: Autumn Collection 2025 | 26 October 2025 | €1,500 to €3,000 | Not sold | | 20. Lone Guardian 2024 | Canvas | Contemporary Art Spring 2025 | 18 May 2025 | €1,500 to €3,000 | €2,861 | | 21. The Summit 2024 | Canvas | Contemporary Art Spring 2025 | 18 May 2025 | €1,500 to €3,000 | Not sold | ## About Eva Santer ### Practice Eva Santer, born in 1988 in Belgium, is a contemporary painter whose work sits on the border between dream and waking. Her Paris gallery, LYNART STORE, places her in a Belgian surrealist lineage and names Rene Magritte as a direct point of reference, alongside a broader interest in metaphysics. The paintings are made with something close to photographic precision, and it is that precision which makes them strange: a scene rendered with such clarity, then quietly altered in scale or in lighting, stops looking like a record and starts looking like a proposition. Her method is one of controlled disturbance. Light falls from where it should not. A figure is too small or too large for the space it occupies. A horizon sits at an unlikely height. Nothing is distorted for its own sake. The gallery describes works that question perception and subjectivity through plays of light, scale and contrast, and calls each picture a window onto a collective dream. The phrase is apt, because these are not private hallucinations but shared ones, assembled from thoroughly ordinary material: water, roads, mountains, weather and a solitary walker. ### Recurring subjects Solitude is the constant. Her catalogued titles name a single figure again and again: Isolated Wanderer, The observer, Lone Guardian, The Watchful Silence. Where two figures appear, as in The Lovers, the pairing reads as the exception that measures the rule. The settings are elemental rather than specific. The Ocean's Silence and Echoes In Water turn on the surface of water and what it hides; The Summit and The Last Road on ascent and departure; The Divide on separation itself. Titles beginning with a definite article recur so persistently that they function almost as a signature, each one naming a condition rather than a place. The work is made mostly in oil on canvas. Smaller square formats are issued as prints and editions through her gallery, and the auction catalogues also record pieces described simply as canvas or as painting. Scale is modest throughout, with the unique pictures typically square and under a metre. ### Market and reception Santer came to wider notice through the saleroom rather than through institutional exhibition, and her gallery credits an auction at LLB Auction with marking her entry onto the international scene. She has been offered at that house in every sale season since her first appearance there, with about two thirds of her lots finding buyers. The unique canvases perform reliably and have closed above their high estimates on several occasions, with the strongest result going to a solitary figure subject. The small prints have been the weakest part of her market and have more often gone unsold, which is the usual pattern for a painter whose collectors want the surface and the scale rather than the image alone. No results for the artist are recorded at other auction houses. Her primary market remains gallery based, through LYNART STORE in Paris, which offers both the unique canvases and the editions. For valuation purposes the auction record at a single house is therefore the whole of the public evidence, and it should be read as such. ## Market at LLB Auction | Figure | Value | |---|---| | Sell-through | 67% | | Record hammer | €5,000 (LOT 15. The observer (2024)) | | Hammer vs low estimate | 1.85x | | Lots above high estimate | 1 | ### Prices by medium | Medium | Offered | Sold | Lowest hammer | Median hammer | Highest hammer | |---|---|---|---|---|---| | Canvas | 5 | 3 | €2,125 | €2,861 | €5,000 | | Oil on canvas | 2 | 2 | €3,300 | €3,500 | €3,500 | | Painting | 2 | 2 | €3,000 | €3,700 | €3,700 | | Print | 2 | 0 | — | — | — | | Oil on Canvas | 1 | 1 | €3,000 | €3,000 | €3,000 | ### Year by year | Year | Offered | Sold | Total hammer | |---|---|---|---| | 2025 | 6 | 4 | €11,786 | | 2026 | 6 | 4 | €14,700 | ## Comparables Comparable price band (middle half of hammer prices here): €3,000 to €3,700 ## Sources - LLB Auction catalogue (Proprietary) ## Valuations Request a free valuation: https://www.llb-auction.com/sell