# Alexis Preller - Auction Profile

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Updated: 2026-04-28T16:22:39.074Z

## Summary
- Lots tracked: 184
- Lots with prices: 95
- First auction date: 2003-04-01
- Latest auction date: 2025-10-08
- Median realised price: $36,000
- Price range: $1,320 to $8,000,000

## Market Takeaway
Alexis Preller shows deep auction liquidity with 184 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $36,000. Category concentration is still broad or sparse. Last 12 months recorded 4 sales. Latest recorded sale: 2025-10-08.

## How To Read This Data
- Use the median \($36,000\) as a typical result; many comparable sales cluster between $12,500 and $341,040.
- Auction totals can include buyer premiums or fees depending on reporting, so compare like\-for\-like when possible.
- Condition, size, medium, provenance, and attribution confidence can move value materially versus median comps.

## Price Bands
- Under $1,000: 0% (0 sales)
- $1,000 to $10,000: 17.9% (17 sales)
- $10,000\+: 82.1% (78 sales)

## Recent Trend & Velocity
- Last 12 months sales: 4
- Previous 12 months sales: 4
- Recent 12 months median: $36,000
- Previous 12 months median: $12,700
- Median shift: 100%
- Latest sale date: 2025-10-08
- Days since latest sale: 133
- Market velocity: steady

## Top Auction Houses
- Bonhams: 69 lots
- Strauss & Co: 44 lots
- Aspire Art: 23 lots
- Stephan Welz & Co: 18 lots
- 5th Avenue Auctioneers: 15 lots
- The Old Church Auction Galleries: 6 lots
- HVMC \- Hôtel des Ventes de Monte\-Carlo: 3 lots
- Sotheby's: 3 lots
- Kensington Bond: 1 lots
- Morphets: 1 lots

## Top Categories
- N/A

## Recent Sold Lots
1. 2024-04-20 | Alexis Preller \(South Africa 1911\-1975\), Adam | Aspire Art | N/A | source: https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot-alexis-preller-south-africa-1911-1975-adam-22-c-ae846df99c
2. 2024-04-20 | Alexis Preller \(South Africa 1911\-1975\), The Wounded Soldier | Aspire Art | N/A | source: https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot-alexis-preller-south-africa-1911-1975-the-wounded-soldier-20-c-3ce420da0e
3. 2023-06-07 | ADAM | Aspire Art | N/A
4. 2025-10-08 | Alexis Preller \(South African, 1911\-1975\) Untitled signed 'PRELLER' and etched 'PRELLER 55' \(lower right\); inscribed 'Al. Pr.' \(verso\)oil on board | Bonhams | £10,000
5. 2025-10-08 | Alexis Preller \(South African, 1911\-1975\) Chrysalis | Bonhams | £36,000
6. 2025-10-08 | Alexis Preller \(South African, 1911\-1975\) Portrait of the Artist as a Visionary II | Bonhams | £110,000 | source: https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot-alexis-preller-south-african-1911-1975-portrait-of-the-artist-as-a-visionary-ii-59-c-9b24187a07
7. 2025-09-17 | Alexis Preller \(South Africa 1911\-1975\) , Cape Malay Girl | Aspire Art | ZAR 400,000
8. 2024-04-20 | Alexis Preller \(South Africa 1911\-1975\), Red Figure Tilling \(Mother Earth\) | Aspire Art | ZAR 250,000
9. 2024-03-21 | Head in Profile | Sotheby's | £12,700
10. 2023-11-16 | ALEXIS PRELLER \(SOUTH AFRICA 1911\-1975\) \| FIGURE WITH BANGLES | Aspire Art | ZAR 70,000 | source: https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot-alexis-preller-south-africa-1911-1975-figure-with-bangles-16-c-48841a3afb
11. 2023-10-15 | Alexis Preller \(SA 1911 \- 1975\) Oil, Still Life Flowers, Signed & Dated '45, 38 x 28 | 5th Avenue Auctioneers | ZAR 215,000
12. 2022-11-30 | ALEXIS PRELLER \(SOUTH AFRICA 1911\-1975\) CIRCLES OF LIFE | Aspire Art | ZAR 1,000,000
13. 2022-03-09 | Alexis Preller \(South African, 1911\-1975\) Mapogga Wall | Bonhams | £16,000
14. 2022-03-09 | Alexis Preller \(South African, 1911\-1975\) Mapogga Women with a Child | Bonhams | £45,000
15. 2022-02-20 | Alexis Preller \(SA 1911 \- 1975\) Etching, Grand Mapogga, Signed Dated '57 & Numbered 37/100 in Pencil, 17 x 13 sheet size | 5th Avenue Auctioneers | ZAR 10,500
16. 2021-10-31 | ALEXIS PRELLER \(SOUTH AFRICA 1911\-1975\) THE YELLOW HEAD | Aspire Art | ZAR 860,000
17. 2021-10-24 | Alexis Preller \(SA 1911 \- 1975\) Etching, Grand Mapogga, Signed Dated '57 & Numbered 37/100 in Pencil, 17 x 13 sheet size | 5th Avenue Auctioneers | N/A
18. 2021-10-12 | Alexis Preller \(South African, 1911\-1975\) Three seated Mapogga women | Bonhams | £15,000
19. 2021-09-29 | Alexis Preller \(South Africa 1911\-1975\), Water carrier \(red\) | Aspire Art | N/A
20. 2021-09-29 | Alexis Preller \(South Africa 1911\-1975\), Figure with cup | Aspire Art | ZAR 48,000
21. 2021-09-29 | Alexis Preller \(South Africa 1911\-1975\), Figure with vase | Aspire Art | N/A
22. 2021-09-29 | Alexis Preller \(South Africa 1911\-1975\), Figure with bangles | Aspire Art | N/A
23. 2021-09-29 | Alexis Preller \(South Africa 1911\-1975\), A study of Van Gogh's 'Room in Arles' | Aspire Art | ZAR 120,000
24. 2021-09-05 | Alexis Preller \(SA 1911 \- 1975\) Etching, Grand Mapogga, Signed Dated '57 & Numbered 75/100 in Pencil, 15 x 12 | 5th Avenue Auctioneers | ZAR 31,000

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