# Kobus Louw - Auction Profile

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Updated: 2026-04-30T03:05:38.234Z

## Summary
- Lots tracked: 65
- Lots with prices: 37
- First auction date: 2011-04-19
- Latest auction date: 2025-03-05
- Median realised price: $3,600
- Price range: $1,400 to $10,000

## Market Takeaway
Kobus Louw has 65 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $3,600. 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 \($3,600\) as a typical result and the typical low/high band \($2,600 to $4,500\) 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: 97.3% (36 sales)
- $10,000\+: 2.7% (1 sales)

## Recent Trend & Velocity
- Last 12 months sales: 0
- Previous 12 months sales: 2
- Recent 12 months median: $0
- Previous 12 months median: $2,600
- Median shift: 0%
- Latest sale date: 2025-03-05
- Days since latest sale: 420
- Market velocity: inactive

## Top Auction Houses
- 5th Avenue Auctioneers: 61 lots
- Stephan Welz & Co: 4 lots

## Top Categories
- N/A

## Recent Sold Lots
1. 2025-03-05 | Kobus Louw \(SA, born 1933\) Oil, Cape Homestead with Figure, Signed, 60 x 90 | 5th Avenue Auctioneers | N/A
2. 2025-02-23 | Kobus Louw \(SA, born 1933\) Oil, Cape Homestead with Figure, Signed, 60 x 90 | 5th Avenue Auctioneers | ZAR 2,600
3. 2024-03-04 | Kobus Louw \(SA, Born 1933\) Oil, Portrait of A Lady , Signed, 50 x 35 | 5th Avenue Auctioneers | ZAR 1,400
4. 2024-02-18 | Kobus Louw \(SA, born 1933\) Oil, Cape Homestead with Figure, Signed, 60 x 90 | 5th Avenue Auctioneers | N/A
5. 2023-11-06 | Kobus Louw \(SA, born 1933\) Oil, Landscape, Signed, 32 x 50 | 5th Avenue Auctioneers | ZAR 1,900
6. 2023-07-23 | Kobus Louw \(SA, born 1933\) Oil, Coastal Village Scene, Signed, 35 x 45 | 5th Avenue Auctioneers | ZAR 2,200
7. 2023-04-16 | Kobus Louw \(SA, born 1933\) Oil, Bringing Home the Catch, Signed & Dated '07, 47 x 60 | 5th Avenue Auctioneers | ZAR 3,600
8. 2023-04-16 | Kobus Louw \(SA, born 1933\) Oil, Cape Homestead with Figure, Signed, 60 x 90 | 5th Avenue Auctioneers | ZAR 4,400
9. 2023-04-16 | Kobus Louw \(SA, born 1933\) Oil, Cottages & Figures, Signed & Dated '08, 34 x 50 | 5th Avenue Auctioneers | ZAR 2,800
10. 2023-04-16 | Kobus Louw \(SA, born 1933\) Oil, Cape Street Scene, Signed & Dated '08, 45 x 60 | 5th Avenue Auctioneers | ZAR 2,800
11. 2023-02-19 | Kobus Louw \(SA, born 1933\) Oil, Coastal Village Scene, Signed, 35 x 45 | 5th Avenue Auctioneers | N/A
12. 2022-12-04 | Kobus Louw \(SA, born 1933\) Oil, Cape Homestead with Figure, Signed, 60 x 90 | 5th Avenue Auctioneers | N/A
13. 2022-10-23 | Kobus Louw \(SA, born 1933\) Oil, Cottages & Figures, Signed & Dated '08, 34 x 50 | 5th Avenue Auctioneers | N/A
14. 2022-07-24 | Kobus Louw \(SA, born 1933\) Oil, Cape Street Scene, Signed & Dated '08, 45 x 60 | 5th Avenue Auctioneers | N/A
15. 2022-07-24 | Kobus Louw \(SA, born 1933\) Oil, "Huisies Paarl Distrik", Signed & Dated '07 Titled Verso, 44 x 61 | 5th Avenue Auctioneers | ZAR 3,600
16. 2022-07-24 | Kobus Louw \(SA, born 1933\) Oil, Bringing Home the Catch, Signed & Dated '07, 47 x 60 | 5th Avenue Auctioneers | N/A
17. 2022-07-24 | Kobus Louw \(SA, born 1933\) Oil, District Six, Signed, 44 x 60 | 5th Avenue Auctioneers | ZAR 4,400
18. 2022-02-20 | Kobus Louw \(SA, born 1933\) Oil, Farm Landscape with Cottage and Figures, Signed & Dated '09, 50 x 58 | 5th Avenue Auctioneers | ZAR 4,800
19. 2021-12-05 | Kobus Louw \(SA, born 1933\) Oil, Coastal Cottages & Figures, Signed, 35 x 50 | 5th Avenue Auctioneers | N/A
20. 2021-12-05 | Kobus Louw \(SA, born 1933\) Oil, Cape Landscape with Cottages, Signed, 60 x 91 | 5th Avenue Auctioneers | N/A
21. 2021-10-24 | Kobus Louw \(SA, born 1933\) Oil, Farm Landscape with Cottage and Figures, Signed & Dated '09, 50 x 58 | 5th Avenue Auctioneers | N/A
22. 2021-09-05 | Kobus Louw \(SA, born 1933\) Oil, Cape Landscape with Cottages, Signed, 60 x 91 | 5th Avenue Auctioneers | N/A
23. 2021-04-18 | Kobus Louw \(SA, born 1933\) Oil, Cottages, Signed & Dated '09, 30 x 40 | 5th Avenue Auctioneers | ZAR 1,700
24. 2021-04-18 | Kobus Louw \(SA, born 1933\) Oil, Cape Landscape with Cottages, Signed, 60 x 91 | 5th Avenue Auctioneers | N/A

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