# Velaphi Mzimba - Auction Profile

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Updated: 2026-05-04T16:26:58.282Z

## Summary
- Lots tracked: 59
- Lots with prices: 29
- First auction date: 2009-04-08
- Latest auction date: 2025-03-05
- Median realised price: $3,600
- Price range: $100 to $30,000

## Market Takeaway
Velaphi Mzimba has 59 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $3,600. Category concentration is still broad. Recent 12-month volume is still light. 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 \($3,600\) as a typical result and the typical low/high band \($1,680 to $7,200\) 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: 13.8% (4 sales)
- $1,000 to $10,000: 69% (20 sales)
- $10,000\+: 17.2% (5 sales)

## Recent Trend & Velocity
- Last 12 months sales: 0
- Previous 12 months sales: 5
- Recent 12 months median: $0
- Previous 12 months median: $9,000
- Median shift: 0%
- Latest sale date: 2025-03-05
- Days since latest sale: 425
- Market velocity: inactive

## Top Auction Houses
- 5th Avenue Auctioneers: 36 lots
- Aspire Art: 11 lots
- Bonhams: 5 lots
- Sworders: 3 lots
- Lawsons: 2 lots
- Hill Auction Gallery: 1 lots
- Material Culture: 1 lots

## Top Categories
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## Recent Sold Lots
1. 2025-03-05 | Velaphi Mzimba \(SA 1959 \- 2021\) Oil, "Bambanani", Signed, 100 x 66 | 5th Avenue Auctioneers | N/A
2. 2025-02-23 | Velaphi Mzimba \(SA 1959 \- 2021\) Oil, Untitled VI, Authenticated Verso by Everard Read, 130cm diameter | 5th Avenue Auctioneers | ZAR 14,000
3. 2025-02-23 | Velaphi Mzimba \(SA 1959 \- 2021\) Oil, "Sanibonani", Signed & Dated '66, 66 x 77 | 5th Avenue Auctioneers | ZAR 9,000
4. 2025-02-23 | Velaphi Mzimba \(SA 1959 \- 2021\) Oil, "Bambanani", Signed, 100 x 66 | 5th Avenue Auctioneers | N/A
5. 2024-06-19 | Velaphi Mzimba \(South Africa 1959\-2021\), Nomvula | Aspire Art | N/A
6. 2024-04-20 | Velaphi Mzimba \(South Africa 1959\-2021\), Short Prayer | Aspire Art | ZAR 30,000
7. 2023-10-12 | Velaphi Mzimba \(South African, born 1959\) Pear 34 x 19.5 x 20cm \(13 3/8 x 7 11/16 x 7 7/8in\). \(including base\) | Bonhams | £3,500
8. 2023-08-01 | Velaphi Mzimba \(South African, 1959\-2021\), | Sworders | £100
9. 2022-10-25 | Velaphi Mzimba \(South African, 1959\-2021\) | Sworders | N/A
10. 2022-10-25 | Velaphi Mzimba \(South African, 1959\-2021\) | Sworders | N/A
11. 2021-11-25 | VELAPHI MZIMBA \(1959 \- \) \- Portrait of Woman Wearing a Head Scarf, 1999 127 x 161 cm | Lawsons | A$1,700
12. 2021-11-25 | VELAPHI MZIMBA \(1959 \- \) \- Untitled, 2001 oil on canvas 65.5 x 161 cm | Lawsons | A$1,500
13. 2021-10-27 | Velaphi Mzimba b.1959 South African Genre Painting | Hill Auction Gallery | $100
14. 2021-07-18 | Velaphi Mzimba \(SA born 1959\) Oil, Abstract Figures, Signed & Dated '95, 70 x 100 | 5th Avenue Auctioneers | ZAR 7,200
15. 2021-04-20 | Velaphi Mzimba \(South Africa 1959\-\) Ntombazane, 2016 | Aspire Art | N/A
16. 2021-04-20 | Velaphi Mzimba \(South Africa 1959\-\) Ntombikhona, 2020 | Aspire Art | N/A
17. 2020-07-22 | Velaphi Mzimba \(South African, b. 1959\) Painting | Material Culture | $400
18. 2018-03-25 | Untitled | Aspire Art | ZAR 28,000
19. 2018-03-25 | Afternoon | Aspire Art | ZAR 28,000
20. 2017-10-30 | Velaphi Mzimba, Portrait of a man | Aspire Art | N/A
21. 2017-10-30 | Velaphi Mzimba, Portrait of a woman | Aspire Art | N/A
22. 2017-10-30 | Velaphi Mzimba, Nomzamo | Aspire Art | N/A
23. 2017-10-05 | Velaphi Mzimba \(South African, born 1959\) New Dawn | Bonhams | £812
24. 2017-09-04 | Velaphi Mzimba, Conversation | Aspire Art | N/A

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