# Mikhael Subotzky - Auction Profile

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Updated: 2026-05-01T16:16:54.852Z

## Summary
- Lots tracked: 26
- Lots with prices: 9
- First auction date: 2015-11-17
- Latest auction date: 2025-07-01
- Median realised price: $4,500
- Price range: $1,100 to $120,000

## Market Takeaway
Mikhael Subotzky has 26 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $4,500. 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 \($4,500\) as a typical result and the typical low/high band \($4,000 to $11,824\) 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: 66.7% (6 sales)
- $10,000\+: 33.3% (3 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: 2025-07-01
- Days since latest sale: 304
- Market velocity: steady

## Top Auction Houses
- Aspire Art: 11 lots
- Bonhams: 7 lots
- Strauss & Co: 3 lots
- Phillips: 2 lots
- Cambi Casa d'Aste: 1 lots
- Christie's: 1 lots
- Stephan Welz & Co: 1 lots

## Top Categories
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## Recent Sold Lots
1. 2025-07-01 | Mikhael Subotzky Nascita: 1981 Riai at sea | Cambi Casa d'Aste | N/A
2. 2022-11-30 | MIKHAEL SUBOTZKY \(SOUTH AFRICA 1981\-\) CHURCH GROUP, ABOVE YEOVILLE \(FROM THE PUBLIC ENCOUNTERS SERIES\) | Aspire Art | N/A
3. 2022-11-30 | MIKHAEL SUBOTZKY \(SOUTH AFRICA 1981\-\) BOAT 2 | Aspire Art | N/A
4. 2022-10-13 | MIKHAEL SUBOTZKY \(B. 1981\) AND PATRICK WATERHOUSE \(B. 1981\) Ponte City from | Christie's | N/A
5. 2022-09-14 | MIKHAEL SUBOTZKY \(SOUTH AFRICA 1981\-\), PONTE CITY FROM DONALD MACKAY PARK | Aspire Art | N/A
6. 2022-09-14 | MIKHAEL SUBOTZKY \(SOUTH AFRICA 1981\-\), HERMANUS \(ON MATTRESS\), ICON BUILDING \(FROM THE UMJIEGWANA SERIES\) | Aspire Art | ZAR 120,000
7. 2022-07-27 | Mikhael Subotzky \(South African, born 1981\) Strip Search, Pollsmoor Maximum Security Prison, 2004 | Bonhams | $1,100
8. 2021-09-30 | Mikhael Subotzky \(South Africa 1981\-\), Shackles Pollsmoor Max Prison \(from the Die Vier Hoeke series\) | Aspire Art | N/A
9. 2021-09-30 | Mikhael Subotzky \(South Africa 1981\-\), Tamatie, Beaufort West Prison \(from the 'Beaufort West' series\) | Aspire Art | N/A
10. 2021-09-30 | Mikhael Subotzky \(South Africa 1981\-\), Tsunami Houses, Delft \(from the 'Umjiegwana' series\) | Aspire Art | N/A
11. 2021-04-21 | Mikhael Subotzky \(South Africa 1981\-\) Marc, Pollsmoor Maximum Security Prison \(from Die Vier Hoeke series\), 2004 | Aspire Art | ZAR 40,000
12. 2021-04-21 | Mikhael Subotzky \(South Africa 1981\-\) WYE FILM STILL 21, 2016 | Aspire Art | N/A
13. 2020-10-08 | Mikhael Subotzky \(South African, born 1981\) Pasvang, Pollsmoor Maximum Security Prison, 2004 | Bonhams | £4,500
14. 2020-10-08 | Mikhael Subotzky \(South African, born 1981\) 'Fuck Me', Toekomsrus, Beaufort West, 2007 image size: 128.7 x 106 cm; sheet size: 147.7 x 126 cm | Bonhams | £4,500
15. 2020-09-03 | Mikhael Subotzky, Self\-Portrait with Soccer Team, Voorberg Prison | Aspire Art | N/A
16. 2020-05-13 | Mikhael Subotzky \(South African, born 1981\) Shackles, Pollsmoor Maximum Security Prison, 2004 | Bonhams | £2,300
17. 2020-03-18 | Mikhael Subotzky \(South African, born 1981\) Leon \(at the back of the hospital\) Beaufort West Hospital, 2006 Image: 106 x 128.7 cm Paper: 126 x 147.7cm | Bonhams | £4,000
18. 2019-05-02 | Mikhael Subotzky \(South African, born 1981\) Strip Search, Pollsmoor Maximum Security Prison, 2004 | Bonhams | N/A
19. 2018-10-04 | MIKHAEL SUBOTZKY \(SOUTH AFRICAN, BORN 1981\) Pasvang, Pollsmoor Maximum S | Bonhams | N/A
20. 2018-06-04 | Mikhael Subotzky; Missing/Word Gesoek/Wanted | Strauss & Co | N/A
21. 2018-05-18 | MIKHAEL SUBOTZKY \- ‘Fuck Me', Toekomsrus, Beaufort West, 2007 | Phillips | N/A
22. 2018-04-09 | Mikhael Subotzky \- Johnny Fortune | Strauss & Co | N/A
23. 2018-02-17 | Mikhael Subotzky \- Daniel and Joe, District 6, Cape Town | Strauss & Co | N/A
24. 2017-09-04 | Mikhael Subotzky, Missing/Wanted | Aspire Art | N/A

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