# Simphiwe Ndzube - Auction Profile

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Updated: 2026-04-29T07:44:38.786Z

## Summary
- Lots tracked: 18
- Lots with prices: 9
- First auction date: 2019-02-16
- Latest auction date: 2025-12-10
- Median realised price: $22,000
- Price range: $600 to $190,000

## Market Takeaway
Simphiwe Ndzube has 18 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $22,000. Category concentration is still broad. Last 12 months recorded 5 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 \($22,000\) as a typical result and the typical low/high band \($2,200 to $115,000\) 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: 11.1% (1 sales)
- $1,000 to $10,000: 33.3% (3 sales)
- $10,000\+: 55.6% (5 sales)

## Recent Trend & Velocity
- Last 12 months sales: 5
- Previous 12 months sales: 4
- Recent 12 months median: $4,800
- Previous 12 months median: $1,900
- Median shift: 100%
- Latest sale date: 2025-12-10
- Days since latest sale: 139
- Market velocity: steady

## Top Auction Houses
- Aspire Art: 6 lots
- Tate Ward Auctions: 3 lots
- Christie's: 2 lots
- Los Angeles Modern Auctions: 2 lots
- Strauss & Co: 2 lots
- Artcurial: 1 lots
- Piasa: 1 lots
- Rago Arts and Auction Center: 1 lots

## Top Categories
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## Recent Sold Lots
1. 2025-12-10 | Simphiwe Ndzube, Rehearsal for Rebellion | Rago Arts and Auction Center | $4,800
2. 2025-12-10 | Simphiwe Ndzube \(South African 1990\-\), 'Iqhawe', 2021 | Tate Ward Auctions | N/A
3. 2025-09-18 | Simphiwe Ndzube \(South African 1990\-\), 'Iqhawe', 2021 | Tate Ward Auctions | N/A
4. 2025-08-21 | Simphiwe Ndzube, Untitled | Los Angeles Modern Auctions | $2,200
5. 2025-06-25 | Simphiwe Ndzube \(South Africa 1990\-\) , The Arival \(sic\) | Aspire Art | ZAR 120,000
6. 2024-09-12 | Simphiwe Ndzube, Untitled | Los Angeles Modern Auctions | $1,900
7. 2024-09-11 | Simphiwe Ndzube , 'Becoming I, II & III' | Aspire Art | ZAR 115,000
8. 2024-07-01 | SIMPHIWE NDZUBE \(B. 1990\). Natives of the Minemoon, The Recluse. acrylic on | Christie's | N/A
9. 2024-06-19 | Simphiwe Ndzube \(South African 1990\-\), 'In The Silence Of The Drum', 2020 | Tate Ward Auctions | £600
10. 2024-03-06 | Simphiwe Ndzube \(South Africa 1990\-\), Looking Up to the Sky, Searching Beneath the Ground | Aspire Art | N/A | source: https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot-simphiwe-ndzube-south-africa-1990-looking-up-to-the-sky-searching-beneath-the-ground-30-c-d1b423d852
11. 2023-11-16 | SIMPHIWE NDZUBE \(SOUTH AFRICA 1990\-\) \| UNTITLED \(PORTRAIT\) | Aspire Art | ZAR 190,000
12. 2022-10-26 | Simphiwe NDZUBE \(Sud Africain \- Né en 1990\) In the Song of the Universe, 2018 Acrylique, collages de papiers et textiles sur toile d... | Artcurial | €22,000
13. 2022-10-18 | SIMPHIWE NDZUBE \(B. 1990\) Limbo State, 3 \(After the Nightmare\) acrylic, tap | Christie's | N/A
14. 2022-09-14 | SIMPHIWE NDZUBE \(SOUTH AFRICA 1990\-\), IN SEARCH OF, TRIPTYCH | Aspire Art | N/A
15. 2020-09-03 | Simphiwe Ndzube, The Gravedigger | Aspire Art | N/A
16. 2020-02-14 | Simphiwe Ndzube b | Piasa | ZAR 60,000
17. 2019-02-16 | Simphiwe Ndzube \- Inevitable Journey to Mars I | Strauss & Co | N/A
18. 2019-02-16 | Simphiwe Ndzube \- Untitled | Strauss & Co | N/A

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