# Walter Oltmann - Auction Profile

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Updated: 2026-05-16T00:18:04.807Z

## Summary
- Lots tracked: 18
- Lots with prices: 5
- First auction date: 2016-10-06
- Latest auction date: 2022-11-30
- Median realised price: $14,000
- Price range: $8,000 to $35,000

## Market Takeaway
Walter Oltmann has 18 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $14,000. 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 \($14,000\) as a typical result and the typical low/high band \($8,750 to $30,000\) 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: 0% (0 sales)
- $1,000 to $10,000: 40% (2 sales)
- $10,000\+: 60% (3 sales)

## Recent Trend & Velocity
- Last 12 months sales: 0
- Previous 12 months sales: 0
- Recent 12 months median: $0
- Previous 12 months median: $0
- Median shift: N/A
- Latest sale date: 2022-11-30
- Days since latest sale: 1,261
- Market velocity: inactive

## Top Auction Houses
- Aspire Art: 8 lots
- Strauss & Co: 8 lots
- Bonhams: 1 lots
- Stephan Welz & Co: 1 lots

## Top Categories
- N/A

## Recent Sold Lots
1. 2022-11-30 | WALTER OLTMANN \(SOUTH AFRICA 1960\-\) WALL FLOWER | Aspire Art | N/A
2. 2022-11-30 | WALTER OLTMANN \(SOUTH AFRICA 1960\-\) LARVA SUIT II | Aspire Art | N/A
3. 2021-09-30 | Walter Oltmann \(South Africa 1960\-\), Moth I | Aspire Art | ZAR 30,000
4. 2021-04-21 | Walter Oltmann \(South Africa 1960\-\) Pod Suit \#13, 2013 | Aspire Art | N/A
5. 2019-07-15 | Walter Oltmann \- Child Skull I, II & III, three | Strauss & Co | N/A
6. 2019-07-15 | Walter Oltmann \- Caterpillar Suit | Strauss & Co | N/A
7. 2019-02-16 | Walter Oltmann \- Handbell: Mouse | Strauss & Co | N/A
8. 2019-02-16 | Walter Oltmann \- Disarticulated Flower | Strauss & Co | N/A
9. 2018-10-28 | Walter Oltmann, Residuum | Aspire Art | N/A
10. 2018-02-17 | Walter Oltmann \- Locust | Strauss & Co | N/A
11. 2017-11-13 | Walter Oltmann \- Coelacanth | Strauss & Co | N/A
12. 2017-10-30 | Walter Oltmann, Bleeder II | Aspire Art | ZAR 14,000
13. 2017-09-18 | Walter Oltmann; Moth | Strauss & Co | N/A
14. 2017-09-04 | Walter Oltmann, Caterpillar suit | Aspire Art | ZAR 8,000
15. 2017-07-17 | Drawing for sculpture | Aspire Art | ZAR 35,000
16. 2017-02-21 | Walter Oltmann \(South African 1960\-\) EX\-SITU \(CHILD SKULL\) etching, signed | Stephan Welz & Co | N/A
17. 2016-11-07 | Walter Oltmann \- Spotted Beetle | Strauss & Co | N/A
18. 2016-10-06 | Walter Oltmann \(South African, born 1960\) Larva Suit 202 x 137 x 48cm \(79 1/2 x 53 15/16 x 18 7/8in\). | Bonhams | £8,750

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