# Alfred Thoba - Auction Profile

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Updated: 2026-05-15T17:57:13.395Z

## Summary
- Lots tracked: 21
- Lots with prices: 14
- First auction date: 2012-06-11
- Latest auction date: 2025-09-17
- Median realised price: $48,000
- Price range: $19,500 to $913,480

## Market Takeaway
Alfred Thoba has 21 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $48,000. Category concentration is still broad. Last 12 months recorded 1 sales. 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 \($48,000\) as a typical result and the typical low/high band \($39,000 to $150,000\) 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: 0% (0 sales)
- $10,000\+: 100% (14 sales)

## Recent Trend & Velocity
- Last 12 months sales: 1
- Previous 12 months sales: 3
- Recent 12 months median: $175,000
- Previous 12 months median: $120,000
- Median shift: 45.8%
- Latest sale date: 2025-09-17
- Days since latest sale: 236
- Market velocity: steady

## Top Auction Houses
- 5th Avenue Auctioneers: 11 lots
- Aspire Art: 6 lots
- Strauss & Co: 3 lots
- Piasa: 1 lots

## Top Categories
- N/A

## Recent Sold Lots
1. 2024-06-19 | Alfred Thoba \(South Africa 1951\-2022\), South Africa Please Do Help People are Using Sophisticated Weapons in Sex. Weak People Get Shot. | Aspire Art | ZAR 150,000
2. 2025-09-17 | Alfred Thoba \(South Africa 1951\-2022\) , Untitled \(Cattle\) | Aspire Art | ZAR 175,000
3. 2025-03-12 | Alfred Thoba \(South Africa 1951\-2022\), ANC Goverment can you Pls change esiants personalities \(sic\) | Aspire Art | N/A
4. 2024-06-19 | Alfred Thoba \(South Africa 1951\-2022\), No Freedom in South Africa | Aspire Art | ZAR 120,000
5. 2022-10-23 | Alfred Thoba \(SA, born 1951\) Oil, Street Scene with Figures, Signed Titled Verso, 50 x 90 | 5th Avenue Auctioneers | N/A
6. 2022-09-04 | Alfred Thoba \(SA, born 1951\) Oil, Cottages & Figures, Signed Inscribed Verso, 70 x 60 | 5th Avenue Auctioneers | N/A
7. 2022-04-24 | Alfred Thoba \(SA, born 1951\) Oil, Still Life Poppies, Signed Verso, 70 x 34 | 5th Avenue Auctioneers | ZAR 19,500
8. 2021-05-30 | Alfred Thoba \(SA, Born 1951\) Oil, "My Fancy Make Me Feel Tall", Signed & Titled Verso, 60 X 45 | 5th Avenue Auctioneers | ZAR 23,000
9. 2021-02-21 | Alfred Thoba \(SA, born 1951\) Oil, "My Spiritual Self Portrait", Signed Dated 2001 & Titled Verso, 70 x 32 | 5th Avenue Auctioneers | ZAR 29,000
10. 2020-02-16 | Alfred Thoba \(SA, born 1951\) Oil, "ANC Got No Judgement", Signed Dated 2019 & Titled Verso, 60 x 41 | 5th Avenue Auctioneers | N/A
11. 2020-02-14 | Alfred Thoba b | Piasa | N/A
12. 2019-07-14 | Alfred Thoba \(SA, born 1951\) Oil, "My Fancy Make Me Feel Tall", Signed & Titled Verso, 60 x 45 | 5th Avenue Auctioneers | N/A
13. 2019-02-17 | Alfred Thoba \(SA, born 1951\) Oil, "My Fancy Make Me Feel Tall", Signed & Titled Verso, 60 x 45 | 5th Avenue Auctioneers | N/A
14. 2018-09-02 | Alfred Thoba \(SA, born 1951\) Oil, Dance Club, Signed & Inscribed Verso, 58 x 76 | 5th Avenue Auctioneers | ZAR 39,000
15. 2017-12-03 | Alfred Thoba \(SA, born 1951\) Oil, "Marikana Underground", Signed & Titled Verso, 58 x 80 | 5th Avenue Auctioneers | ZAR 53,760
16. 2017-11-12 | Alfred Thoba, Coming Home Too Early | Aspire Art | ZAR 48,000
17. 2017-11-12 | Alfred Thoba, Priest | Aspire Art | ZAR 42,000
18. 2017-10-15 | Alfred Thoba \(SA, born 1951\) Oil, "Zulu Traditional Dreams", Signed & Titled Verso, 52 x 74 | 5th Avenue Auctioneers | ZAR 43,680
19. 2014-11-10 | Alfred Thoba \- Punishing a Woman | Strauss & Co | ZAR 96,628
20. 2013-05-20 | Alfred Thoba \- Fruits of Life | Strauss & Co | ZAR 818,496
21. 2012-06-11 | Alfred Thoba \- 1976 Riots | Strauss & Co | ZAR 913,480

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