# Francois Thango - Auction Profile

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Updated: 2026-05-15T21:30:54.755Z

## Summary
- Lots tracked: 22
- Lots with prices: 13
- First auction date: 2004-06-24
- Latest auction date: 2025-12-22
- Median realised price: $750
- Price range: $150 to $3,750

## Market Takeaway
Francois Thango has 22 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $750. 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 \($750\) as a typical result and the typical low/high band \($400 to $1,700\) 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: 61.5% (8 sales)
- $1,000 to $10,000: 38.5% (5 sales)
- $10,000\+: 0% (0 sales)

## Recent Trend & Velocity
- Last 12 months sales: 1
- Previous 12 months sales: 2
- Recent 12 months median: $150
- Previous 12 months median: $180
- Median shift: 0%
- Latest sale date: 2025-12-22
- Days since latest sale: 144
- Market velocity: steady

## Top Auction Houses
- Bonhams: 6 lots
- John Nicholson's Fine Art Auctioneers & Valuers: 2 lots
- Pasarel: 2 lots
- Potomack Company: 2 lots
- Quinn's Auction Galleries: 2 lots
- Sloans & Kenyon: 2 lots
- Sotheby's: 2 lots
- Goldfield Auction: 1 lots
- Guernsey's: 1 lots
- MBA Seattle Auction LLC: 1 lots

## Top Categories
- N/A

## Recent Sold Lots
1. 2025-12-22 | FRANCOIS THANGO \(CONGOLESE, 1936\-1981\) \- OIL ON CANVAS. | Pasarel | $150
2. 2024-11-26 | FRANCOIS THANGO \(CONGOLESE, 1936\-1981\) \- OIL ON CANVAS. | Pasarel | $180
3. 2024-09-21 | FRANCOIS THANGO \(1936\-1981\) "THE MASKS" OIL ON CANVAS, SIGNED. | Goldfield Auction | €400
4. 2023-06-22 | Francois Thango ''Le Marche'' Oil | MBA Seattle Auction LLC | $850
5. 2020-05-12 | Francois Thango \(1936 \- 1981, Congolese\), Untitled | Guernsey's | $600
6. 2019-10-03 | Francois Thango \(Congolese, 1936\-1981\) Market traders | Bonhams | £1,700
7. 2019-10-02 | Francois Thango \(1936\-1981\) Congolese. Figures in a Congolese Market, selling Fish, Fruit, Carpets and Drums, Mixed Media, Signed, Unframed, 15.5" x 108.5". | John Nicholson's Fine Art Auctioneers & Valuers | N/A
8. 2019-10-02 | Francois Thango \(1936\-1981\) Congolese. A Study of a Fish, Mixed Media, Signed, Unframed, 14.75" x 28". | John Nicholson's Fine Art Auctioneers & Valuers | N/A
9. 2018-02-28 | Francois Thango \(Congolese, 1936\-1981\) Untitled | Bonhams | N/A
10. 2015-09-28 | Francois Thango \(South African, 1936\-1981\), oil on masonite, Market Scene, signed lower right, 24" x 31 3/4" board, 25" x 33" overal... | William Bunch Auctions & Appraisals | $150
11. 2014-05-21 | FRANCOIS THANGO \(Congolese, 1936\-1981\) Six panels | Bonhams | £3,750
12. 2011-11-19 | FRANCOIS THANGO \(CONGOLESE, 1936\-1981\) MARKET PLACE Tempera on canvas: 33 x 108 in. | Potomack Company | N/A
13. 2011-09-24 | FRANCOIS THANGO \(CONGOLESE, 1936\-1981\) MARKET PLACE Tempera on canvas: 33 x 108 in. | Potomack Company | N/A
14. 2010-03-10 | Francois Thango \(Congolese, 1936\-1981\) Market scene 24 x 35 1/4in \(61 x 89.5cm\) unframed | Bonhams | $3,660
15. 2010-03-10 | Francois Thango \(Congolese, 1936\-1981\) Mythical beasts 23 x 34 1/4in \(58.4 x 87cm\) unframed | Bonhams | $3,660
16. 2009-09-26 | FRANCOIS THANGO \(South African, 1936\-1981\). MARKET SCENE, signed lower right. Tempera on canvas. | Sloans & Kenyon | N/A
17. 2009-09-26 | FRANCOIS THANGO \(South African, 1936\-1981\). MYTHICAL BEASTS, signed lower right. Tempera on canvas. | Sloans & Kenyon | N/A
18. 2009-06-13 | Francois Thango \(South African 1936\-1981\). "Le Secret De L'Enfer" Acrylic on canvas | Quinn's Auction Galleries | $500
19. 2009-06-13 | Francois Thango \(South African, 1936\-1981\). Ndoto La Baloki. Acrylic on canvas. | Quinn's Auction Galleries | $750
20. 2004-06-24 | FRANCOIS THANGO, 1936\-1981 | Sotheby's | N/A
21. 2004-06-24 | FRANCOIS THANGO, 1936\-1981 | Sotheby's | N/A
22. 2011-03-16 | Francois Thango \(Congolese, 1936\-1981\) Market scene | Bonhams | £1,320

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