# Cecil Skotnes - Auction Profile

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Updated: 2026-04-29T00:49:19.304Z

## Summary
- Lots tracked: 416
- Lots with prices: 232
- First auction date: 2004-05-31
- Latest auction date: 2025-11-26
- Median realised price: $10,080
- Price range: $420 to $1,829,800

## Market Takeaway
Cecil Skotnes shows deep auction liquidity with 416 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $10,080. Category concentration is still broad or sparse. Last 12 months recorded 8 sales. Latest recorded sale: 2025-11-26.

## How To Read This Data
- Use the median \($10,080\) as a typical result; many comparable sales cluster between $3,000 and $46,840.
- 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: 4.3% (10 sales)
- $1,000 to $10,000: 45.3% (105 sales)
- $10,000\+: 50.4% (117 sales)

## Recent Trend & Velocity
- Last 12 months sales: 8
- Previous 12 months sales: 13
- Recent 12 months median: $19,000
- Previous 12 months median: $5,500
- Median shift: 100%
- Latest sale date: 2025-11-26
- Days since latest sale: 84
- Market velocity: moderate

## Top Auction Houses
- Strauss & Co: 112 lots
- Bonhams: 89 lots
- 5th Avenue Auctioneers: 81 lots
- Aspire Art: 61 lots
- Stephan Welz & Co: 47 lots
- Christie's: 5 lots
- DOYLE Auctioneers & Appraisers: 4 lots
- Sotheby's: 3 lots
- Roseberys: 2 lots
- AAG Auctioneers: 1 lots

## Top Categories
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## Recent Sold Lots
1. 2022-10-19 | Cecil Edwin Frans Skotnes \(South African, 1926\-2009\) Tribute to Uccello No.2 \(framed\) | Bonhams | N/A | source: https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot-cecil-edwin-frans-skotnes-south-african-1926-2009-tribute-to-uccello-no-2-framed-5-c-bd345c4b0f
2. 2025-11-26 | Cecil Skotnes \(South Africa 1926\-2009\), Landscape | Aspire Art | N/A
3. 2025-10-29 | CECIL SKOTNES \(SOUTH AFRICAN 1926\-2009\) | Olympia Auctions | N/A
4. 2025-10-08 | Cecil Edwin Frans Skotnes \(South African, 1926\-2009\) Saul and David | Bonhams | £19,000
5. 2025-04-05 | Cecil Skotnes \(1926\-2009\) 'Adam & Eve', important large painting carved on wood panel, c. 1960's \-80's | Moorabool Auctions | A$5,900
6. 2025-03-20 | Cecil Edwin Frans Skotnes \(South African, 1926\-2009\) Shaka Zulu | Bonhams | £24,000
7. 2025-03-12 | Cecil Skotnes \(South Africa 1926\-2009\), Homestead, triptych | Aspire Art | N/A
8. 2025-03-12 | Cecil Skotnes \(South Africa 1926\-2009\), Abstract figures | Aspire Art | ZAR 70,000
9. 2025-02-23 | Cecil Skotnes \(SA 1926 \- 2009\) Woodcut, Conversation, Signed Dated '74 & Numbered 67/70 In Pencil, 44 X 64 sheet size | 5th Avenue Auctioneers | ZAR 1,800
10. 2024-12-08 | Cecil Skotnes \(SA 1926 \- 2009\) Woodcut, Landscape No.1, Signed & Numbered 27/55 in Pencil, 62 x 50 sheet size | 5th Avenue Auctioneers | ZAR 3,200
11. 2024-11-20 | Cecil Skotnes \(South Africa 1926\-2009\) The Prophet | Aspire Art | ZAR 70,000
12. 2024-10-16 | Cecil Edwin Frans Skotnes \(South African, 1926\-2009\) Landscape | Bonhams | N/A
13. 2024-09-15 | Cecil Skotnes \(SA 1926 \- 2009\) Woodcut, Landscape No.1, Signed & Numbered 27/55 in Pencil, 62 x 50 sheet size | 5th Avenue Auctioneers | N/A
14. 2024-07-22 | Cecil Skotnes \(SA 1926 \- 2009\) Lithograph, Abstract, Signed & Numbered 92/150 in Pencil, 55 x 41 | 5th Avenue Auctioneers | N/A
15. 2024-07-22 | Cecil Skotnes \(SA 1926 \- 2009\) Lithograph, Abstract, Signed Dated '73 & Numbered 39/225 in Pencil, 48 x 30 | 5th Avenue Auctioneers | ZAR 2,600
16. 2024-07-22 | Cecil Skotnes \(SA 1926 \- 2009\) Lithograph, Abstract, Signed Dated '73 & Numbered 112/225 in Pencil, 50 x 33 | 5th Avenue Auctioneers | ZAR 1,800
17. 2024-07-17 | CECIL SKOTNES \(1926\-2009\). Two Figures. oil on incised panel, in artist's b | Christie's | $10,710
18. 2024-06-19 | Cecil Skotnes \(South Africa 1926\-2009\), Abstract with blue and red | Aspire Art | ZAR 65,000
19. 2024-04-20 | Cecil Skotnes \(South Africa 1926\-2009\), The Delegates | Aspire Art | N/A
20. 2024-03-13 | Cecil Skotnes | DOYLE Auctioneers & Appraisers | $5,500
21. 2024-03-06 | Cecil Skotnes \(South Africa 1926\-2009\), Abstract landscape | Aspire Art | N/A
22. 2024-03-06 | Cecil Skotnes \(South Africa 1926\-2009\), The Assassination of Shaka | Aspire Art | N/A
23. 2024-02-18 | Cecil Skotnes \(SA 1926 \- 2009\) Woodcut, Landscape No.1, Signed & Numbered 27/55 in Pencil, 62 x 50 sheet size | 5th Avenue Auctioneers | N/A
24. 2024-01-29 | Cecil Skotnes \(SA 1926 \- 2009\) Woodcut, Abstract Figure, Signed & Numbered 34/55 in Pencil, 64 x 51 sheet size unframed | 5th Avenue Auctioneers | N/A

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