# Ephrem Solomon - Auction Profile

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Updated: 2026-04-29T08:00:16.517Z

## Summary
- Lots tracked: 28
- Lots with prices: 20
- First auction date: 2016-06-09
- Latest auction date: 2025-11-01
- Median realised price: $3,900
- Price range: $2,000 to $210,000

## Market Takeaway
Ephrem Solomon has 28 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $3,900. 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 \($3,900\) as a typical result and the typical low/high band \($3,800 to $5,062\) 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: 85% (17 sales)
- $10,000\+: 15% (3 sales)

## Recent Trend & Velocity
- Last 12 months sales: 1
- Previous 12 months sales: 4
- Recent 12 months median: $26,000
- Previous 12 months median: $5,000
- Median shift: 100%
- Latest sale date: 2025-11-01
- Days since latest sale: 179
- Market velocity: steady

## Top Auction Houses
- Bonhams: 12 lots
- Piasa: 6 lots
- Christie's: 4 lots
- Art Auction East Africa: 2 lots
- Artcurial: 2 lots
- Sotheby's: 2 lots

## Top Categories
- N/A

## Recent Sold Lots
1. 2025-11-01 | Ephrem SOLOMON | Artcurial | MAD 26,000
2. 2024-11-06 | Ephrem Solomon \(Ethiopian, born 1983\) Makeda’s father dies, 2011 and Solomon gets perfume from Makeda, 2011 | Art Auction East Africa | KES 210,000
3. 2024-11-06 | Ephrem Solomon \(Ethiopian, born 1983\) Folk Memory 5 \(from the Folk Memory series\), 2015 | Art Auction East Africa | N/A
4. 2024-10-16 | Ephrem Solomon \(Ethiopian, born 1983\) Untitled \(Silent Series\), 2017 | Bonhams | £5,000
5. 2024-06-06 | Ephrem SOLOMON | Artcurial | €4,600
6. 2023-11-15 | Ephrem Solomon \(b. 1983, Ethiopia\) Birth and Death Series \(Chair\), 2017 | Piasa | N/A
7. 2023-03-09 | EPHREM SOLOMON \(B.1983\) Unknown Life 1 acrylic on woodcut 35 1/4 x 33 3/8in | Christie's | N/A
8. 2022-10-13 | EPHREM SOLOMON \(B. 1983\) Forbidden Fruit acrylic on carved board 16 5/8 x 1 | Christie's | N/A
9. 2022-03-09 | Ephrem Solomon \(Ethiopian, born 1983\) Silence Series, 2017 | Bonhams | £10,000
10. 2021-10-12 | Ephrem Solomon \(Ethiopian, born 1983\) Untitled 2 \(two chairs\) ES06 | Bonhams | N/A
11. 2020-10-08 | Ephrem Solomon \(Ethiopian, born 1983\) Head \(2015\) unframed. | Bonhams | £3,800
12. 2020-10-08 | Ephrem Solomon \(Ethiopian, born 1983\) Dignity of the Lady 90 x 95 cm \(35 7/16 x 37 3/8in\). unframed. | Bonhams | £3,000
13. 2020-10-08 | Ephrem Solomon \(Ethiopian, born 1983\) Untitled \(Portrait Series\), 2013 \(3\) 32 x 32cm \(12 5/8 x 12 5/8in\). each. | Bonhams | £3,500
14. 2020-09-02 | Ephrem Solomon \(Ethiopian, born 1983\) Untitled Life IV \(2013\) unframed. | Bonhams | $7,000
15. 2020-05-28 | Ephrem Solomon \(b.1983\) \- The Two Sorrow Face \- | Christie's | £2,000
16. 2020-03-18 | Ephrem Solomon \(Ethiopian, born 1983\) Gloom \(or Gloomy\) unframed. | Bonhams | £3,200
17. 2020-03-18 | Ephrem Solomon \(Ethiopian, born 1983\) Head \(2015\) unframed. | Bonhams | £3,800
18. 2019-03-27 | Ephrem Solomon \(B. 1983\) The Two Gamblers oil and found paper collage on carved board 24 3/8 x 24 3/8in. \(62 x 61.8cm.\) | Christie's | £4,375
19. 2019-03-20 | Ephrem Solomon \(Ethiopian, born 1983\) Three portraits \(2014\) 40 x 40cm \(15 3/4 x 15 3/4in\) each. | Bonhams | N/A
20. 2019-03-20 | Ephrem Solomon \(Ethiopian, born 1983\) Forbidden Fruit \(2015\) | Bonhams | £5,062
21. 2018-11-14 | Ephrem Solomon \(né en 1983, Ethiopie\) Hope series, 2018 | Piasa | €3,900
22. 2018-11-14 | Ephrem Solomon \(né en 1983, Ethiopie\) Signature series, 2016 | Piasa | €3,900
23. 2018-10-04 | EPHREM SOLOMON \(ETHIOPIAN, BORN 1983\) The Unknown Lady, 2013 woodcut and | Bonhams | £5,250
24. 2018-03-28 | EPHREM SOLOMON \| The Two Sorrow Face | Sotheby's | N/A

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