# Muraina Oyelami - Auction Profile

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Updated: 2026-05-15T22:36:00.046Z

## Summary
- Lots tracked: 69
- Lots with prices: 31
- First auction date: 2000-09-13
- Latest auction date: 2025-10-08
- Median realised price: $1,800
- Price range: $40 to $5,795

## Market Takeaway
Muraina Oyelami has 69 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $1,800. Category concentration is still broad. Last 12 months recorded 2 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 \($1,800\) as a typical result and the typical low/high band \($800 to $3,000\) 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: 35.5% (11 sales)
- $1,000 to $10,000: 64.5% (20 sales)
- $10,000\+: 0% (0 sales)

## Recent Trend & Velocity
- Last 12 months sales: 2
- Previous 12 months sales: 2
- Recent 12 months median: $2,000
- Previous 12 months median: $800
- Median shift: 100%
- Latest sale date: 2025-10-08
- Days since latest sale: 219
- Market velocity: steady

## Top Auction Houses
- Bonhams: 32 lots
- Arthouse Contemporary: 19 lots
- Auctionata Paddle8 AG: 5 lots
- Grant Zahajko Auctions, LLC: 3 lots
- Olympia Auctions: 2 lots
- Roseberys: 2 lots
- Auktionshaus Mehlis GmbH: 1 lots
- Capo Auction: 1 lots
- K&K – Auktionen in Heidelberg: 1 lots
- Lyon & Turnbull: 1 lots

## Top Categories
- N/A

## Recent Sold Lots
1. 2025-10-08 | Muraina Oyelami \(Nigerian, born 1940\) Hope II | Bonhams | £2,000
2. 2025-10-08 | Muraina Oyelami \(Nigerian, born 1940\) Girl | Bonhams | £3,000
3. 2024-08-31 | Muraina Oyelami, "Domestic Palaver" | Auktionshaus Mehlis GmbH | €950
4. 2024-07-12 | Muraina Oyelami, "Masks for a couple", signiertes Ölgemälde von 1995 | K&K – Auktionen in Heidelberg | €800
5. 2024-05-01 | MURAINA OYELAMI \(NIGERIAN B.1940\) | Olympia Auctions | £1,500
6. 2024-05-01 | MURAINA OYELAMI \(NIGERIAN B.1940\) | Olympia Auctions | £1,900
7. 2023-09-12 | Muraina Oyelami, Typical Village, 1977 | Roseberys | £800 | source: https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot-muraina-oyelami-typical-village-1977-194-c-8cf4d4eaa0
8. 2023-08-09 | MURAINA OYELAMI \(NIGERIAN 1940\-\) VILLAGE NATIVE DOCTOR \-1971 | Lyon & Turnbull | £3,000
9. 2023-07-06 | Muraina Oyelami \(Nigéria, né en 1940\) Sans titre | Bonhams | €2,200
10. 2023-07-06 | Muraina Oyelami \(Nigéria, né en 1940\) Gwari woman with Ldada child, Woman from Wales, Woman head, Head study, Sans titre \(cinq oeuvres\) | Bonhams | €2,500
11. 2023-06-06 | MURAINA OYELAMI,  NIGERIAN B.1940 \-  TYPICAL VILLAGE, 1977;  GOUACHE AND PASTEL ON PAPER, SIGNED, | Roseberys | N/A | source: https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot-muraina-oyelami-nigerian-b-1940-typical-village-1977-gouache-and-pastel-on-paper-signed-232-c-5534e39835
12. 2022-11-09 | Muraina Oyelami \(b. 1940, Nigeria\) Untitled, 1995 | Piasa | N/A
13. 2022-07-25 | MURAINA OYELAMI \(b.1940\) UNTITLED | Arthouse Contemporary | N/A
14. 2022-07-25 | MURAINA OYELAMI \(b.1940\) OJU AGBA | Arthouse Contemporary | N/A
15. 2021-11-29 | MURAINA OYELAMI \(b.1940\) OSUN OSOGBO | Arthouse Contemporary | N/A
16. 2021-11-29 | MURAINA OYELAMI \(b.1940\) UNTITLED | Arthouse Contemporary | N/A
17. 2021-11-29 | MURAINA OYELAMI \(b.1940\) UNTITLED | Arthouse Contemporary | N/A
18. 2021-11-29 | MURAINA OYELAMI \(b.1940\) UNTITLED | Arthouse Contemporary | N/A
19. 2021-06-07 | Muraina Oyelami \| Untitled | Arthouse Contemporary | $4,000
20. 2021-06-07 | Muraina Oyelami \| Three Traditional Rulers | Arthouse Contemporary | N/A
21. 2021-03-11 | Muraina Oyelami Original Art | Grant Zahajko Auctions, LLC | $40
22. 2020-11-30 | Muraina Oyelami \| Native Hopeful | Arthouse Contemporary | N/A
23. 2020-11-30 | Muraina Oyelami \| Here and Beyond | Arthouse Contemporary | $2,000
24. 2020-06-15 | MURAINA OYELAMI, LOVER II | Arthouse Contemporary | $1,000

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