# Sam Nhlengethwa - Auction Profile

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Updated: 2026-04-29T10:44:37.761Z

## Summary
- Lots tracked: 121
- Lots with prices: 49
- First auction date: 2010-05-15
- Latest auction date: 2025-11-26
- Median realised price: $40,000
- Price range: $600 to $250,000

## Market Takeaway
Sam Nhlengethwa shows solid auction liquidity with 121 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $40,000. Category concentration is still broad or sparse. Last 12 months recorded 13 sales. Latest recorded sale: 2025-11-26.

## How To Read This Data
- Use the median \($40,000\) as a typical result; many comparable sales cluster between $7,500 and $80,000.
- 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: 4.1% (2 sales)
- $1,000 to $10,000: 26.5% (13 sales)
- $10,000\+: 69.4% (34 sales)

## Recent Trend & Velocity
- Last 12 months sales: 13
- Previous 12 months sales: 9
- Recent 12 months median: $70,000
- Previous 12 months median: $60,000
- Median shift: 16.7%
- Latest sale date: 2025-11-26
- Days since latest sale: 84
- Market velocity: moderate

## Top Auction Houses
- Aspire Art: 56 lots
- Strauss & Co: 39 lots
- 5th Avenue Auctioneers: 17 lots
- Phillips: 2 lots
- Bonhams: 1 lots
- DOYLE Auctioneers & Appraisers: 1 lots
- Galerie Kornfeld Auktionen AG: 1 lots
- Germann Auction House Ltd: 1 lots
- Piasa: 1 lots
- Roseberys: 1 lots

## Top Categories
- N/A

## Recent Sold Lots
1. 2025-11-26 | Sam Nhlengethwa \(South Africa 1955\-\), The Jazz Legends | Aspire Art | N/A
2. 2025-11-26 | Sam Nhlengethwa \(South Africa 1955\-\), Behind bars | Aspire Art | ZAR 22,000
3. 2025-11-26 | Sam Nhlengethwa \(South Africa 1955\-\), Abstract collage | Aspire Art | ZAR 40,000
4. 2025-11-25 | Sam Nhlengethwa, 1955, Untitled | Germann Auction House Ltd | N/A
5. 2025-09-17 | Sam Nhlengethwa \(South Africa 1955\-\) , Pianist | Aspire Art | ZAR 80,000
6. 2025-09-17 | Sam Nhlengethwa \(South Africa 1955\-\) , Untitled Group | Aspire Art | N/A
7. 2025-09-17 | Sam Nhlengethwa \(South Africa 1955\-\) , Mining scene | Aspire Art | ZAR 70,000
8. 2025-06-25 | Sam Nhlengethwa \(South Africa 1955\-\) , The Jazz Legends | Aspire Art | N/A
9. 2025-06-25 | Sam Nhlengethwa \(South Africa 1955\-\) , Station | Aspire Art | ZAR 50,000
10. 2025-03-12 | Sam Nhlengethwa \(South Africa 1955\-\), Senegal I | Aspire Art | ZAR 95,000
11. 2025-03-12 | Sam Nhlengethwa \(South Africa 1955\-\), Tribute to Zim Nqawana | Aspire Art | N/A
12. 2025-03-12 | Sam Nhlengethwa \(South Africa 1955\-\), The Trio | Aspire Art | ZAR 140,000
13. 2025-03-12 | Sam Nhlengethwa \(South Africa 1955\-\), Mzansi Legends | Aspire Art | N/A
14. 2024-11-20 | Sam Nhlengethwa \(South Africa 1955\-\) Glimpses of the Fifties and Sixties | Aspire Art | ZAR 180,000
15. 2024-11-20 | Sam Nhlengethwa \(South Africa 1955\-\) The Jazz Legends | Aspire Art | ZAR 70,000
16. 2024-09-11 | Sam Nhlengethwa , 'East View Corner; Nugget and 125 Kerk Str' | Aspire Art | N/A
17. 2024-09-11 | Sam Nhlengethwa , 'Mzanzi Legends' | Aspire Art | ZAR 160,000
18. 2024-06-19 | Sam Nhlengethwa \(South Africa 1955\-\), Ode to Charlie Parker | Aspire Art | ZAR 60,000
19. 2024-06-19 | Sam Nhlengethwa \(South Africa 1955\-\), Gossipers | Aspire Art | N/A
20. 2024-04-29 | Sam Nhlengethwa \(SA, born 1955\) Lithograpgh, "Underground" Signed Titled Dated '96 & Numbered 17/30 in Pencil, 42 x 28 Sheet Size | 5th Avenue Auctioneers | ZAR 2,200
21. 2024-03-06 | Sam Nhlengethwa \(b. 1955\) | DOYLE Auctioneers & Appraisers | $750
22. 2024-03-06 | Sam Nhlengethwa \(South Africa 1955\-\), Musicians, three | Aspire Art | N/A
23. 2023-11-16 | SAM NHLENGETHWA \(SOUTH AFRICA 1955\-\) \| PAYING ATTENTION | Aspire Art | ZAR 70,000
24. 2023-11-16 | SAM NHLENGETHWA \(SOUTH AFRICA 1955\-\) \| GLIMPSES OF THE FIFTIES AND SIXTIES, THIRTY | Aspire Art | ZAR 150,000

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