# Nelson Makamo - Auction Profile

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Updated: 2026-05-01T16:12:46.382Z

## Summary
- Lots tracked: 77
- Lots with prices: 39
- First auction date: 2013-08-06
- Latest auction date: 2025-11-26
- Median realised price: $110,000
- Price range: $6,500 to $450,000

## Market Takeaway
Nelson Makamo shows solid auction liquidity with 77 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $110,000. Category concentration is still broad or sparse. Last 12 months recorded 7 sales. Latest recorded sale: 2025-11-26.

## How To Read This Data
- Use the median \($110,000\) as a typical result; many comparable sales cluster between $27,000 and $220,000.
- Auction totals can include buyer premiums or fees depending on reporting, so compare like\-for\-like when possible.
- Condition, size, medium, provenance, and attribution confidence can move value materially versus median comps.

## Price Bands
- Under $1,000: 0% (0 sales)
- $1,000 to $10,000: 7.7% (3 sales)
- $10,000\+: 92.3% (36 sales)

## Recent Trend & Velocity
- Last 12 months sales: 7
- Previous 12 months sales: 10
- Recent 12 months median: $65,000
- Previous 12 months median: $180,000
- Median shift: 0%
- Latest sale date: 2025-11-26
- Days since latest sale: 84
- Market velocity: steady

## Top Auction Houses
- Aspire Art: 39 lots
- Strauss & Co: 15 lots
- Stephan Welz & Co: 14 lots
- 5th Avenue Auctioneers: 2 lots
- Sotheby's: 2 lots
- Bonhams: 1 lots
- Christie's: 1 lots
- Lyon & Turnbull: 1 lots
- Piasa: 1 lots
- Swann Auction Galleries: 1 lots

## Top Categories
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## Recent Sold Lots
1. 2025-11-26 | Nelson Makamo \(South Africa 1982\-\), Figural Study | Aspire Art | ZAR 65,000
2. 2025-11-13 | Nelson Makamo \(b. 1982\), Child With Blue Glasses, 2013. | Swann Auction Galleries | $9,525
3. 2025-09-17 | Nelson Makamo \(South Africa 1982\-\) , Two Boys | Aspire Art | N/A
4. 2025-09-17 | Nelson Makamo \(South Africa 1982\-\) , Composition of figures and objects | Aspire Art | N/A
5. 2025-09-17 | Nelson Makamo \(South Africa 1982\-\) , Two figures | Aspire Art | N/A
6. 2025-03-12 | Nelson Makamo \(South Africa 1982\-\), Jazz Legend | Aspire Art | ZAR 120,000
7. 2025-03-12 | Nelson Makamo \(South Africa 1982\-\), Portrait of a young child | Aspire Art | ZAR 180,000
8. 2024-11-20 | Nelson Makamo \(South Africa 1982\-\) Child with red glasses | Aspire Art | N/A
9. 2024-09-11 | Nelson Makamo , 'Jokes Aside' | Aspire Art | N/A
10. 2024-09-11 | Nelson Makamo , 'Child with red cross' | Aspire Art | N/A
11. 2024-06-19 | Nelson Makamo \(South Africa 1982\-\), Portrait of girl with glasses | Aspire Art | N/A
12. 2024-06-19 | Nelson Makamo \(South Africa 1982\-\), Person in a yellow t\-shirt | Aspire Art | N/A
13. 2024-04-25 | Untitled 12 | Sotheby's | $22,000
14. 2024-04-20 | Nelson Makamo \(South Africa 1982\-\), The Guys | Aspire Art | ZAR 180,000
15. 2024-03-06 | Nelson Makamo \(South Africa 1982\-\), Portrait of a child | Aspire Art | ZAR 220,000
16. 2024-03-06 | Nelson Makamo \(South Africa 1982\-\), Women of Coulour \(sic\) | Aspire Art | ZAR 220,000
17. 2024-03-06 | Nelson Makamo \(South Africa 1982\-\), Blue music | Aspire Art | ZAR 120,000
18. 2023-11-16 | NELSON MAKAMO \(SOUTH AFRICA 1982\-\) \| GIRL IN A BLUE DRESS | Aspire Art | ZAR 260,000
19. 2023-11-16 | NELSON MAKAMO \(SOUTH AFRICA 1982\-\) \| CHILD WITH BLUE BACKGROUND | Aspire Art | ZAR 450,000
20. 2023-11-16 | NELSON MAKAMO \(SOUTH AFRICA 1982\-\) \| PORTRAIT | Aspire Art | N/A
21. 2023-11-16 | NELSON MAKAMO \(SOUTH AFRICA 1982\-\) \| CHILD WITH RED CROSS | Aspire Art | ZAR 220,000
22. 2023-09-13 | Nelson Makamo \(South Africa 1982\-\) Untitled \(three figures\) | Aspire Art | N/A
23. 2023-09-13 | Nelson Makamo \(South Africa 1982\-\) Young boy | Aspire Art | ZAR 200,000
24. 2023-09-13 | Nelson Makamo \(South Africa 1982\-\) Boy with glasses | Aspire Art | ZAR 380,000

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