# Leonard Matsoso - Auction Profile

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Updated: 2026-05-01T11:12:42.696Z

## Summary
- Lots tracked: 23
- Lots with prices: 14
- First auction date: 2008-01-30
- Latest auction date: 2025-11-26
- Median realised price: $9,500
- Price range: $300 to $19,040

## Market Takeaway
Leonard Matsoso has 23 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $9,500. 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 \($9,500\) as a typical result and the typical low/high band \($1,800 to $13,500\) 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: 7.1% (1 sales)
- $1,000 to $10,000: 42.9% (6 sales)
- $10,000\+: 50% (7 sales)

## Recent Trend & Velocity
- Last 12 months sales: 1
- Previous 12 months sales: 0
- Recent 12 months median: $0
- Previous 12 months median: $0
- Median shift: N/A
- Latest sale date: 2025-11-26
- Days since latest sale: 156
- Market velocity: steady

## Top Auction Houses
- 5th Avenue Auctioneers: 9 lots
- Lawsons: 4 lots
- Stephan Welz & Co: 4 lots
- Bonhams: 3 lots
- Aspire Art: 1 lots
- Pasarel: 1 lots
- Strauss & Co: 1 lots

## Top Categories
- N/A

## Recent Sold Lots
1. 2025-11-26 | Leonard Matsoso \(South Africa 1949\-\), Xhosa Girl | Aspire Art | N/A
2. 2023-06-26 | LEONARD MATSOSO \(SOUTH AFRICAN, B.1949\) \- PASTEL ON PAPER, 1989. | Pasarel | $300
3. 2021-05-30 | Leonard Matsoso \(SA, born 1949\) Mixed Media, Abstract Figure with Gourd, Signed & Dated '80, 94 x 64 | 5th Avenue Auctioneers | N/A
4. 2018-04-15 | Leonard Matsoso \(SA 20th C\) Mixed Media, "Xhosa Woman", Signed Titled & Dated 1975, 26 x 17 | 5th Avenue Auctioneers | ZAR 1,400
5. 2017-04-09 | Leonard Matsoso \(SA 20th C\) Mixed Media, "Mosotho Horse Rider", Signed Titled & Dated '09, 69 x 98 | 5th Avenue Auctioneers | ZAR 13,440
6. 2016-12-04 | Leonard Matsoso \(SA 20th C\) Mixed Media, Xhosa Zulu Sotho, Signed & Dated '10, 53 x 69 | 5th Avenue Auctioneers | ZAR 10,080
7. 2016-04-03 | Leonard Matsoso \(SA 20th C\) Mixed Media, "Mosotho Horse Rider", Signed Titled & Dated '09, 69 x 98 | 5th Avenue Auctioneers | ZAR 13,500
8. 2015-12-06 | Leonard Matsoso \(SA 20th C\) Mixed Media, x hosa Zulu Sotho, Signed & Dated '10, 53 x 69 | 5th Avenue Auctioneers | ZAR 9,500
9. 2015-05-17 | Leonard Matsoso \(SA 20th C\) Pastel, Abstract Figures, Signed & Dated '10, 66 x 95 | 5th Avenue Auctioneers | ZAR 14,000
10. 2015-03-15 | Leonard Matsoso \(SA 20th C\) Pastel, "A Dream", Signed & Dated '08 Titled, 66 x 95 | 5th Avenue Auctioneers | ZAR 19,000
11. 2014-08-14 | Leonard Matsoso \(1949 \-\) \(8 works \- portfolio\) \- Human Head & Bucks Skeleton in Landscape, Bull Fighting, Helpless Helpless \(2\), Gen... | Lawsons | N/A
12. 2014-07-10 | Leonard Matsoso \(1949 \-\) \(8 works \- portfolio\) \- Human Head & Bucks Skeleton in Landscape, Bull Fighting, Helpless Helpless \(2\), Gen... | Lawsons | N/A
13. 2014-07-10 | Leonard Matsoso \(1949 \-\) \- Letter to Mother Nature 52.5 x 36.5cm | Lawsons | N/A
14. 2014-06-26 | Leonard Matsoso \(1949 \- \) \- Untitled \(Man & Beast\) 178 x 75cm | Lawsons | A$1,800
15. 2013-08-06 | Leonard Tshehla Mohapi Matsoso \(South African | Stephan Welz & Co | N/A
16. 2013-08-06 | Leonard Tshehla Mohapi Matsoso \(South African | Stephan Welz & Co | ZAR 19,040
17. 2013-05-20 | Leonard Tshehla Mohapi Matsoso \- Dancers, two | Strauss & Co | ZAR 10,539
18. 2013-04-21 | Leonard Matsoso \(SA 20th C\) Pen & Ink, "My | 5th Avenue Auctioneers | ZAR 2,640
19. 2011-04-19 | Leonard Tshehla Mohapi Matsoso \(South African | Stephan Welz & Co | N/A
20. 2008-08-05 | Leonard Tshehla Mohapi Matsoso \(South African | Stephan Welz & Co | N/A
21. 2012-03-21 | Leonard Matsoso \(South African, born 1949\) 'African Prophet II' unframed | Bonhams | £6,875
22. 2008-01-30 | Leonard Matsoso \(South African, born 1949\) Workmen 52 x 35 cm. \(20½ x 13¾ in.\) | Bonhams | £1,080
23. 2008-01-30 | Leonard Matsoso \(South African, born 1949\) Figure 75 x 55 cm. \(29½ x 21½ in.\) | Bonhams | N/A

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