# BEN OSAGHAE - Auction Profile

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Updated: 2026-05-15T17:56:47.517Z

## Summary
- Lots tracked: 34
- Lots with prices: 15
- First auction date: 2010-11-22
- Latest auction date: 2025-06-03
- Median realised price: $5,000
- Price range: $1,250 to $1,540,000

## Market Takeaway
BEN OSAGHAE has 34 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $5,000. 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 \($5,000\) as a typical result and the typical low/high band \($3,800 to $900,000\) 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: 60% (9 sales)
- $10,000\+: 40% (6 sales)

## Recent Trend & Velocity
- Last 12 months sales: 1
- Previous 12 months sales: 2
- Recent 12 months median: $4,000
- Previous 12 months median: $3,000
- Median shift: 33.3%
- Latest sale date: 2025-06-03
- Days since latest sale: 342
- Market velocity: steady

## Top Auction Houses
- Arthouse Contemporary: 16 lots
- Bonhams: 15 lots
- Roseberys: 2 lots
- Sotheby's: 1 lots

## Top Categories
- N/A

## Recent Sold Lots
1. 2025-06-03 | Ben Osaghae,  Still life, 1995  | Roseberys | £4,000
2. 2025-03-25 | Ben Osaghae,  Nigerian 1962\-2017 \-  Still life, 1995;  oil on canvas, signed lower right 'Ben Osag | Roseberys | N/A
3. 2025-03-20 | Ben Osaghae \(Nigerian, 1962\-2017\) Nobility of Labour, 2013, 112 x 110 cm | Bonhams | £3,000
4. 2024-03-27 | Ben Osaghae \(Nigerian, 1962\-2017\) Birds of the same feather | Bonhams | £5,500
5. 2023-10-12 | Ben Osaghae \(Nigerian, 1962\-2017\) Nobility of Labour, 2013, 112 x 110 cm | Bonhams | N/A
6. 2022-07-25 | BEN OSAGHAE \(1962\-2017\) UNTITLED | Arthouse Contemporary | N/A
7. 2022-07-25 | BEN OSAGHAE \(1962\-2017\) APPRENTICESHIP | Arthouse Contemporary | N/A
8. 2022-07-25 | BEN OSAGHAE \(1962\-2017\) THE BOOK HUNGER | Arthouse Contemporary | N/A
9. 2022-03-09 | Ben Osaghae \(Nigerian, 1962\-2017\) Untitled \(Blocks\) | Bonhams | £3,800
10. 2021-11-29 | BEN OSAGHAE \(1962\-2017\) RAIN KEEPS NO CALENDAR | Arthouse Contemporary | $15,000
11. 2021-11-29 | BEN OSAGHAE \(1962\-2017\) EVERGREEN TUNES I | Arthouse Contemporary | N/A
12. 2021-06-07 | Ben Osaghae \| How to Price Love at the Market | Arthouse Contemporary | N/A
13. 2021-06-07 | Ben Osaghae \| E Go Beta | Arthouse Contemporary | N/A
14. 2020-11-30 | Ben Osaghae \| Untitled | Arthouse Contemporary | N/A
15. 2020-11-30 | Ben Osaghae \| Our Stolen Voices | Arthouse Contemporary | N/A
16. 2020-06-15 | BEN OSAGHAE, THE SEER | Arthouse Contemporary | $5,000
17. 2020-03-07 | BEN OSAGHAE \- DIALOGUE II \- 2007 | Arthouse Contemporary | NGN 850,000
18. 2020-03-07 | BEN OSAGHAE \- DIALOGUE I \- 2007 | Arthouse Contemporary | NGN 900,000
19. 2017-10-05 | Ben Osaghae \(Nigerian, 1962\-2017\) 'Ogoromienmien' | Bonhams | N/A
20. 2017-10-05 | Ben Osaghae \(Nigerian, 1962\-2017\) Communal Joy | Bonhams | N/A
21. 2017-05-16 | BEN OSAGHAE \| In Brotherhood We Stand | Sotheby's | £4,500
22. 2014-05-21 | BEN OSAGHAE \(Nigerian, born 1962\) 'A Harvest of | Bonhams | £4,375
23. 2012-05-07 | BEN OSAGHAE \(1962\) DICING WITH DEATH 2011 Oil and | Arthouse Contemporary | N/A
24. 2011-11-21 | BEN OSAGHAE \(b. 1962\) LAW IS BEAUTIFUL BUSINESS | Arthouse Contemporary | NGN 1,540,000

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