# George Mnyalaza Milwa Pemba - Auction Profile

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Updated: 2026-04-29T04:58:11.378Z

## Summary
- Lots tracked: 49
- Lots with prices: 28
- First auction date: 2004-05-31
- Latest auction date: 2024-03-21
- Median realised price: $42,000
- Price range: $2,160 to $320,000

## Market Takeaway
George Mnyalaza Milwa Pemba shows developing auction liquidity with 48 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $42,000. Category concentration is still broad or sparse. Last 12 months recorded 0 sales. Latest recorded sale: 2024-03-21.

## How To Read This Data
- Use the median \($42,000\) as a typical result; many comparable sales cluster between $16,250 and $168,000.
- 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: 0% (0 sales)
- $1,000 to $10,000: 11.1% (3 sales)
- $10,000\+: 88.9% (24 sales)

## Recent Trend & Velocity
- Last 12 months sales: 0
- Previous 12 months sales: 1
- Recent 12 months median: $0
- Previous 12 months median: $0
- Median shift: 0%
- Latest sale date: 2024-03-21
- Days since latest sale: 699
- Market velocity: inactive

## Top Auction Houses
- Bonhams: 21 lots
- Stephan Welz & Co: 20 lots
- Sotheby's: 3 lots
- Aspire Art: 2 lots
- Christie's: 2 lots
- Chiswick Auctions: 1 lots

## Top Categories
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## Recent Sold Lots
1. 2024-03-21 | Mother and Child | Sotheby's | N/A
2. 2023-10-19 | Mother and Child | Sotheby's | N/A
3. 2022-10-20 | Mother and Baby | Sotheby's | £21,420
4. 2017-07-17 | In the kitchen | Aspire Art | ZAR 170,000
5. 2017-07-17 | On the bus | Aspire Art | ZAR 320,000
6. 2017-02-21 | George Mnyalaza Milwa Pemba \(South African 1912\-2001\) MAIN ROAD THROUGH POR | Stephan Welz & Co | N/A
7. 2016-11-22 | George Mnyalaza Milwa Pemba \(South African 1912\-2001\) VILLAGE SCENE WITH ELDERS signed and dated 90 oil on board 38,5 by 48,5cm | Stephan Welz & Co | N/A
8. 2016-06-07 | George Mnyalaza Milwa Pemba \(South African 1912\-2001\) MAIN ROAD THROUGH PORT ELIZABETH signed and da | Stephan Welz & Co | N/A
9. 2016-06-07 | George Mnyalaza Milwa Pemba \(South African 1912\-2001\) PORTRAIT OF A YOUNG BOY signed and dated 59 oi | Stephan Welz & Co | N/A
10. 2015-11-17 | George Mnyalaza Milwa Pemba \(South African 1912\-2001\) THE ARTIST'S MOTHER signed and dated 48 oil on canvas George Milwa Mnyalaza Pemba, South African National Gallery, Cape Town, 27.4.1996 \- 28.7.1996, catalogue number 59 South African National Gallery and the Mayibuye Centre, University of the Western Cape, 1996, George Milwa Mnyalaza Pemba Retrospective Exhibition, SANG Publications, Cape Town, Illustrated on the back cover \(cat. no, 59\) Huddleston, S. 1996, Against All Odds, Jonathan Ball Publishers; Jeppestown, illustrated on page 106 49,5 by 37,5cm George Pemba was born in 1912 in Hill's Kraal, Korsten, Port Elizabeth. As a child he was encouraged by his father to draw and paint, and so began painting murals in the family house and producing portraits from photographs of his father's employers. In 1928, at 16, Pemba lost his father. In an effort to help support his mother and large extended family that had been under enormous financial strain since his father’s death, he was supplementing his income with painting commissions. He won a Grey Scholarship, which enabled him to receive post primary education, and in 1931 he obtained a Teacher's Diploma. That same year he began working for the Lovedale Printing Press, and continued to work there until 1936. The following year he studied under Professor Austin Winter Moore for five months at Rhodes University, made possible through a bursary awarded from the Bantu Welfare Trust. Pemba was awarded a second bursary in 1941. This time he spent two weeks at Maurice van Essche's studio in Cape Town attending art classes. Despite years of adversity and poverty, George Pemba’s painting career spanned six decades \- providing a visual history of what he had witnessed in a transforming South Africa. He had established himself as a pioneer of social realism, taking his inspiration from the realities and struggles of urban black people’s everyday lives in a troubled South Africa. This painting is homage to Pemba’s mother – it depicts her as the matriarch....strong, fierce, reserved. Following the death of Pemba's father, in a motorcycle accident in 1928, Rebecca \(Pemba's mother\), struggled to support her children. She washed clothes at homes in the white suburbs, walking many miles \(as far as 30km a day\) to and from work. I.L. Edited from: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George\_Pemba \[Accessed: 24 September 2015\] | Stephan Welz & Co | N/A
11. 2013-10-02 | George Mnyalaza Milwa Pemba \(South African, 1912\-2001\) | Bonhams | £47,500
12. 2013-10-02 | George Mnyalaza Milwa Pemba \(South African, 1912\-2001\) | Bonhams | N/A
13. 2013-08-06 | George Mnyalaza Milwa Pemba \(South African | Stephan Welz & Co | ZAR 257,600
14. 2013-06-04 | George Mnyalaza Milwa Pemba \(South African | Stephan Welz & Co | N/A
15. 2013-03-20 | George Mnyalaza Milwa Pemba \(South African, 1912\-2001\) | Bonhams | £9,375
16. 2012-08-07 | George Mnyalaza Milwa Pemba \(South African | Stephan Welz & Co | ZAR 26,880
17. 2012-03-21 | George Mnyalaza Milwa Pemba \(South African, 1912\-2001\) Prophetess | Bonhams | £11,250
18. 2012-03-21 | George Mnyalaza Milwa Pemba \(South African, 1912\-2001\) 'Sangoma' | Bonhams | N/A
19. 2011-10-26 | George Mnyalaza Milwa Pemba \(South African, 1912\-2001\) Mother and child | Bonhams | £16,250
20. 2011-10-26 | George Mnyalaza Milwa Pemba \(South African, 1912\-2001\) Mother feeding her child | Bonhams | N/A
21. 2011-10-26 | George Mnyalaza Milwa Pemba \(South African, 1912\-2001\) 'Fireside Stories' | Bonhams | N/A
22. 2011-10-26 | George Mnyalaza Milwa Pemba \(South African, 1912\-2001\) 'Sangoma' | Bonhams | N/A
23. 2011-09-12 | George Mnyalaza Milwa Pemba \(South African | Chiswick Auctions | N/A
24. 2011-08-16 | George Mnyalaza Milwa Pemba \(South African | Stephan Welz & Co | ZAR 168,000

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