# Akinola Lasekan - Auction Profile

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Updated: 2026-04-28T15:08:57.179Z

## Summary
- Lots tracked: 23
- Lots with prices: 14
- First auction date: 2010-11-22
- Latest auction date: 2025-03-20
- Median realised price: $11,000
- Price range: $3,200 to $2,200,000

## Market Takeaway
Akinola Lasekan has 23 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $11,000. Category concentration is still broad. Recent 12-month volume is still light. These metrics reflect recorded public auction results and may not include private transactions or every premium outlier sale.

## How To Read This Data
- Use median \($11,000\) as a typical result and the typical low/high band \($8,000 to $25,200\) as the middle 50% of recorded sales.
- Auction prices can include buyer premiums or fees depending on house reporting, so compare on a like\-for\-like basis.
- Condition, provenance, size, and attribution confidence can move final value materially versus median comps.

## Price Bands
- Under $1,000: 0% (0 sales)
- $1,000 to $10,000: 42.9% (6 sales)
- $10,000\+: 57.1% (8 sales)

## Recent Trend & Velocity
- Last 12 months sales: 0
- Previous 12 months sales: 1
- Recent 12 months median: $0
- Previous 12 months median: $8,000
- Median shift: 0%
- Latest sale date: 2025-03-20
- Days since latest sale: 404
- Market velocity: inactive

## Top Auction Houses
- Bonhams: 13 lots
- Arthouse Contemporary: 5 lots
- Sotheby's: 3 lots
- Claydon Auctioneers: 1 lots
- Waddington's: 1 lots

## Top Categories
- N/A

## Recent Sold Lots
1. 2025-03-20 | Akinola Lasekan \(Nigerian, 1921\-1972\) Portrait of a Lady signed 'AKINOLA LASEKAN/ LAGOS/ NIGERIA' \(lower left\)pastel on paper50 x 39cm \(19 11/16 x 15 3/8in\).\(unframed\) | Bonhams | £8,000
2. 2022-03-22 | The artist's mother | Sotheby's | £25,200
3. 2022-03-09 | Akinola Lasekan \(Nigerian, 1921\-1972\) Femi | Bonhams | £11,000
4. 2022-02-25 | Akinola Lasekan \(1921\-1972\), Nigerian School, Watercolour and gouache, African warriors fighting in | Claydon Auctioneers | £5,000
5. 2021-10-12 | Akinola Lasekan \(Nigerian, 1921\-1972\) Portrait of a Yoruba Lady | Bonhams | £12,000
6. 2021-10-12 | Akinola Lasekan \(Nigerian, 1921\-1972\) Fishermen sorting the catch | Bonhams | £3,200
7. 2021-10-12 | Akinola Lasekan \(Nigerian, 1921\-1972\) Ijo\-ibile | Bonhams | £9,000
8. 2021-03-17 | Akinola Lasekan \(Nigerian, 1921\-1972\) Ijo\-ibile | Bonhams | N/A
9. 2021-03-17 | Akinola Lasekan \(Nigerian, 1921\-1972\) A portrait of the artist's mother | Bonhams | N/A
10. 2020-10-08 | Akinola Lasekan \(Nigerian, 1921\-1972\) Portrait of a Yoruba Lady | Bonhams | £9,000
11. 2020-10-08 | Akinola Lasekan \(Nigerian, 1921\-1972\) Femi | Bonhams | N/A
12. 2020-06-15 | AKINOLA LASEKAN, PORTRAIT OF A MAN | Arthouse Contemporary | $13,000
13. 2020-03-18 | Akinola Lasekan \(Nigerian, 1921\-1972\) Portrait of a girl wearing a headscarf | Bonhams | £35,000
14. 2017-10-05 | Akinola Lasekan \(Nigerian, 1921\-1972\) Yoruba drummers and dancers | Bonhams | N/A
15. 2017-05-16 | AKINOLA LASEKAN \| Portrait of Mrs Taiwo Andrea | Sotheby's | N/A
16. 2017-05-16 | AKINOLA LASEKAN \| Fulani  | Sotheby's | N/A
17. 2017-02-15 | Akinola Lasekan \(Nigerian, 1921\-1974\) Nigerian Soldier | Bonhams | £6,875
18. 2015-12-07 | Akinola Lasekan \(1916\-1972\), HAUSA TRADERS \(AT LAGOS MARKET\) 1944, Watercolour on paper; signed, titled and dated 1944 at Lagus lower right, titled “Hausa Traders” in ink in the bottom centre margin below the subject watercolour, Image/Sheet | Waddington's | CA$14,400
19. 2012-05-23 | Akinola Lasekan \(Nigerian, 1921\-1974\) | Bonhams | N/A
20. 2012-05-07 | AKINOLA LASEKAN \(1916\-1972\) UNTITLED 1961 Oil on | Arthouse Contemporary | N/A
21. 2011-11-21 | AKINOLA LASEKAN \(1916\-1972\) PORTRAIT OF A MAN 1956 | Arthouse Contemporary | NGN 2,000,000
22. 2011-11-21 | AKINOLA LASEKAN \(1916\-1972\) PORTRAIT OF A LADY | Arthouse Contemporary | N/A
23. 2010-11-22 | AKINOLA LASEKAN \(1916\-1972\) PORTRAIT OF PA LAWANI | Arthouse Contemporary | NGN 2,200,000

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