# Hardy Botha - Auction Profile

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Updated: 2026-04-29T23:24:53.015Z

## Summary
- Lots tracked: 24
- Lots with prices: 9
- First auction date: 2004-05-31
- Latest auction date: 2025-04-16
- Median realised price: $3,000
- Price range: $500 to $28,000

## Market Takeaway
Hardy Botha has 24 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $3,000. Category concentration is still broad. Recent 12-month volume is still light. 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 \($3,000\) as a typical result and the typical low/high band \($1,500 to $5,912\) 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: 11.1% (1 sales)
- $1,000 to $10,000: 77.8% (7 sales)
- $10,000\+: 11.1% (1 sales)

## Recent Trend & Velocity
- Last 12 months sales: 0
- Previous 12 months sales: 2
- Recent 12 months median: $0
- Previous 12 months median: $0
- Median shift: N/A
- Latest sale date: 2025-04-16
- Days since latest sale: 378
- Market velocity: inactive

## Top Auction Houses
- 5th Avenue Auctioneers: 11 lots
- Stephan Welz & Co: 8 lots
- Strauss & Co: 2 lots
- Aspire Art: 1 lots
- Gorringes: 1 lots
- Millea Bros Ltd: 1 lots

## Top Categories
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## Recent Sold Lots
1. 2025-04-16 | Hardy Botha \(SA, born 1947\) Oil, "Metamorphosis", Signed & Dated '73, 106 x 106 | 5th Avenue Auctioneers | N/A
2. 2025-04-06 | Hardy Botha \(SA, born 1947\) Oil, "Metamorphosis", Signed & Dated '73, 106 x 106 | 5th Avenue Auctioneers | N/A
3. 2023-05-17 | Hardy Botha, large oil on canvas, 1985 | Millea Bros Ltd | $500
4. 2021-09-05 | Hardy Botha \(SA, born 1947\) Oil, "Metamorphosis", Signed, 106 x 106 | 5th Avenue Auctioneers | N/A
5. 2021-04-21 | Hardy Botha \(South Africa 1947\-\) Untitled \(Figures in a landscape\) | Aspire Art | ZAR 3,000
6. 2020-05-31 | Hardy Botha \(SA, born 1947\) Oil, "Metamorphosis", Signed, 106 x 106 | 5th Avenue Auctioneers | N/A
7. 2020-02-16 | Hardy Botha \(SA, born 1947\) Oil, "Metamorphosis", Signed, 106 x 106 | 5th Avenue Auctioneers | N/A
8. 2020-02-05 | Hardy Botha 1947\- Composition | Strauss & Co | ZAR 3,500
9. 2019-09-01 | Hardy Botha \(SA, born 1947\) Oil, "Metamorphosis", Signed, 106 x 106 | 5th Avenue Auctioneers | N/A
10. 2019-04-07 | Hardy Botha \(SA, born 1947\) Oil, "Metamorphosis", Signed, 106 x 106 | 5th Avenue Auctioneers | N/A
11. 2018-12-02 | Hardy Botha \(SA, born 1947\) Oil, "Metamorphosis", Signed, 106 x 106 | 5th Avenue Auctioneers | N/A
12. 2018-09-17 | Hardy Botha; Mother and Child | Strauss & Co | N/A
13. 2018-05-07 | Hardy Botha \(SA, born 1947\) Etching, "Ringmaster", Signed Dated '77 and Numbered A/P in Pencil, 27 x 31 | 5th Avenue Auctioneers | N/A
14. 2017-10-15 | Hardy Botha \(SA, born 1947\) Oil, "Tarotscape", Signed & Dated '85 Titled Verso, 96 x 120 | 5th Avenue Auctioneers | ZAR 28,000
15. 2017-06-27 | Hardy Botha \(1947\-\) 'Death of a clown' 34.75 x 30in., unframed | Gorringes | N/A
16. 2017-02-21 | Hardy Botha \(South African 1947\-\) TRAVELLING HARLEQUIN IN A VALISE etching, | Stephan Welz & Co | ZAR 1,000
17. 2017-02-21 | Hardy Botha \(South African 1947\-\) RECLINING NUDE WITH FLOWERS serigraph, si | Stephan Welz & Co | ZAR 6,000
18. 2017-02-21 | Hardy Botha \(South African 1947\-\) THE STUDIO ON MELKBOSCH FARM signed mixed | Stephan Welz & Co | N/A
19. 2015-11-17 | Hardy Botha \(South African 1947\-\) CARNIVALE I \(sic\) signed and dated 2005; signed and inscribed with the title on the reverse oil on board 37,5 by 28,5cm | Stephan Welz & Co | ZAR 5,912
20. 2015-10-20 | Hardy Botha \(South African 1947\-\-\) PEACE DANCE sig | Stephan Welz & Co | N/A
21. 2015-06-21 | Hardy Botha \(SA, born 1947\) Etching, "Ringmaster", Signed Dated '77 and Numbered A/P in Pencil, 27 x 31 | 5th Avenue Auctioneers | ZAR 1,500
22. 2013-08-06 | Hardy Botha \(South African 1947\-\) BAD DREAMS | Stephan Welz & Co | N/A
23. 2004-05-31 | Hardy Botha \(South African 1947\-\) COMPOSITION signed and dated 73 pencil and pen and ink 18 by 26,5cm | Stephan Welz & Co | N/A
24. 2004-05-31 | Hardy Botha \(South African 1947\-\) JESTERS IN A LANDSCAPE signed, signed with the monogram and dated 74 canvas laid down on board 76 by 88cm | Stephan Welz & Co | ZAR 2,530

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