# Ben Enwonwu - Auction Profile

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Updated: 2026-04-30T19:34:58.454Z

## Summary
- Lots tracked: 82
- Lots with prices: 56
- First auction date: 2000-09-13
- Latest auction date: 2024-09-27
- Median realised price: $10,000
- Price range: $160 to $30,800,000

## Market Takeaway
Ben Enwonwu shows solid auction liquidity with 82 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $10,000. Category concentration is still broad or sparse. Last 12 months recorded 0 sales. Latest recorded sale: 2024-09-27.

## How To Read This Data
- Use the median \($10,000\) as a typical result; many comparable sales cluster between $3,000 and $88,200.
- 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: 12.5% (7 sales)
- $1,000 to $10,000: 35.7% (20 sales)
- $10,000\+: 51.8% (29 sales)

## Recent Trend & Velocity
- Last 12 months sales: 0
- Previous 12 months sales: 1
- Recent 12 months median: $0
- Previous 12 months median: $5,040
- Median shift: 0%
- Latest sale date: 2024-09-27
- Days since latest sale: 509
- Market velocity: inactive

## Top Auction Houses
- Sotheby's: 25 lots
- Arthouse Contemporary: 22 lots
- Christie's: 15 lots
- Bonhams: 8 lots
- Gorringes: 4 lots
- Dreweatts 1759: 2 lots
- Hampstead Auctions Ltd: 1 lots
- Lyon & Turnbull: 1 lots
- Millea Bros Ltd: 1 lots
- Nadeau's Auction Gallery: 1 lots

## Top Categories
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## Recent Sold Lots
1. 2023-10-19 | Torso of a Girl | Sotheby's | £60,960
2. 2023-10-19 | Study for 'The Drummer' | Sotheby's | N/A
3. 2023-05-16 | Ben Enwonwu MBE; Nigerian 1917\-1994; Path Through Trees | Strauss & Co | ZAR 550,000
4. 2022-10-20 | Anyanwu | Sotheby's | £138,600
5. 2022-10-20 | Negritude | Sotheby's | £69,300
6. 2022-10-14 | BEN ENWONWU \(1917\-1994\) Anyanwu \(The Rising Sun\) bronze | Christie's | N/A
7. 2022-07-25 | BEN ENWONWU \(1917\-1994\) HEAD OF OSAGBOVIO | Arthouse Contemporary | N/A
8. 2022-07-25 | BEN ENWONWU \(1917\-1994\) AFRICA DANCES | Arthouse Contemporary | N/A
9. 2022-07-25 | BEN ENWONWU \(1917\-1994\) BACK TO BACK \(LEGON\) | Arthouse Contemporary | $1,600
10. 2022-07-25 | BEN ENWONWU \(1917\-1994\) TUTU | Arthouse Contemporary | $1,800
11. 2022-03-22 | Two boys | Sotheby's | N/A
12. 2022-03-22 | Negritude | Sotheby's | £94,500
13. 2022-03-22 | Negritude | Sotheby's | £88,200
14. 2022-03-22 | Portrait of a young woman | Sotheby's | £88,200
15. 2021-11-29 | BEN ENWONWU \(1921\-1994\) SQUATTING FIGURE | Arthouse Contemporary | $27,000
16. 2021-11-29 | BEN ENWONWU \(1921\-1994\) NEGRITUDE | Arthouse Contemporary | $105,000
17. 2021-10-20 | Negritude | Sotheby's | N/A
18. 2021-10-20 | Anyanwu | Sotheby's | N/A
19. 2021-10-20 | Portrait of a Woman | Sotheby's | N/A
20. 2021-06-07 | Ben Enwonwu \| Tutu | Arthouse Contemporary | $2,200
21. 2021-06-07 | Ben Enwonwu \| The Leaf | Arthouse Contemporary | $22,000
22. 2021-03-31 | Atlas | Sotheby's | £378,000
23. 2020-11-30 | Ben Enwonwu \| Tutu | Arthouse Contemporary | $3,500
24. 2020-07-28 | BEN ENWONWU \(1917\-1994\) \- Untitled | Christie's | £7,500

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