# Wangechi Mutu - Auction Profile

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Updated: 2026-05-04T16:21:30.521Z

## Summary
- Lots tracked: 112
- Lots with prices: 71
- First auction date: 2006-11-16
- Latest auction date: 2025-10-16
- Median realised price: $31,250
- Price range: $550 to $385,000

## Market Takeaway
Wangechi Mutu shows solid auction liquidity with 112 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $31,250. Category concentration is still broad or sparse. Last 12 months recorded 4 sales. Latest recorded sale: 2025-10-16.

## How To Read This Data
- Use the median \($31,250\) as a typical result; many comparable sales cluster between $10,000 and $72,000.
- 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: 1.4% (1 sales)
- $1,000 to $10,000: 22.5% (16 sales)
- $10,000\+: 76.1% (54 sales)

## Recent Trend & Velocity
- Last 12 months sales: 4
- Previous 12 months sales: 6
- Recent 12 months median: $4,410
- Previous 12 months median: $20,000
- Median shift: 0%
- Latest sale date: 2025-10-16
- Days since latest sale: 125
- Market velocity: steady

## Top Auction Houses
- Christie's: 39 lots
- Sotheby's: 33 lots
- Phillips: 17 lots
- Bonhams: 9 lots
- Piasa: 6 lots
- Swann Auction Galleries: 3 lots
- Los Angeles Modern Auctions: 2 lots
- Artcurial: 1 lots
- Dawsons Auctioneers: 1 lots
- Van Ham Kunstauktionen: 1 lots

## Top Categories
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## Recent Sold Lots
1. 2024-10-03 | WANGECHI MUTU \(1973 \- \) Three from the Bottle People Series. | Swann Auction Galleries | $27,500
2. 2025-10-16 | WANGECHI MUTU \(B. 1972\). Drowning Nymph III. ink, acrylic, plastic pearls, | Christie's | £12,700
3. 2025-10-01 | i. Wambera; ii. Untitled; iii. Untitled \[Three Works\] | Sotheby's | N/A
4. 2025-04-30 | Wangechi Mutu \(Kenyan b.1972\) Two handmade birthday cards from the artist to fashion designer, Benjamin Liepelt, 2001 both signed and inscribed by the artist felt pen, collage and appliqué on blue watercolour paper, unframed largest 30 x 23 cm | Dawsons Auctioneers | £550
5. 2025-02-26 | WANGECHI MUTU \(B. 1972\). Howl. Image: 35 x 24 in. \(889 x 610 mm.\)Sheet: 40 | Christie's | $4,410
6. 2024-12-18 | WANGECHI MUTU \(B. 1972\). Untitled, Wambera, Untitled \[Three Works\]. | Christie's | N/A
7. 2024-10-16 | Wangechi Mutu \(Kenyan, born 1972\) Two handmade birthday cards from the artist to fashion designer, Benjamin Liepelt, 2001 \(\(2\)\) | Bonhams | N/A
8. 2024-07-17 | WANGECHI MUTU \(b. 1972\). S'Nicky Eyes. printed paper collage and tape on x\- | Christie's | N/A
9. 2024-06-27 | WANGECHI MUTU \(B. 1972\). drip, drip, drip. ink, acrylic and collage on myla | Christie's | N/A
10. 2024-04-04 | WANGECHI MUTU \(1973 \- \) Untitled \(Bottle People Series\). | Swann Auction Galleries | $20,000
11. 2023-12-14 | WANGECHI MUTU \(B. 1972\) Moko Mama Knicker Bun watercolor, ink and printed p | Christie's | $18,900
12. 2023-11-10 | WANGECHI MUTU \(B. 1972\) The Rare Horn\-Hair Thought ink, acrylic, paper coll | Christie's | $37,800
13. 2023-10-19 | WANGECHI MUTU \(1972 \- \) Eve. | Swann Auction Galleries | $5,000
14. 2023-10-12 | Wangechi Mutu \(Kenyan, born 1972\) Studies of Crystal Waters \(i\-iii\): \(\(3\)\) | Bonhams | £4,200
15. 2023-09-07 | Wangechi Mutu, Howl | Los Angeles Modern Auctions | $4,200
16. 2023-03-10 | WANGECHI MUTU \(B. 1972\) Drunk Palm II ink, paint, plant material and plasti | Christie's | N/A
17. 2023-03-10 | WANGECHI MUTU \(B. 1972\) Moko Mama Knicker Bun watercolor, ink and printed p | Christie's | N/A
18. 2022-09-29 | WANGECHI MUTU \(B. 1972\) All Rosey ink, acrylic, sequins, glitter and printe | Christie's | $138,600
19. 2022-05-13 | WANGECHI MUTU \(B. 1972\) Untitled \(Pin\-Up no.2\) watercolor, graphite and pri | Christie's | $11,340
20. 2022-03-09 | Wangechi Mutu \(Kenyan, born 1972\) Two handmade birthday cards from the artist to fashion designer, Benjamin Liepelt, 2001 \(\(2\)\) | Bonhams | N/A
21. 2022-03-09 | Wangechi Mutu \(Kenyan, born 1972\) Studies of Crystal Waters \(i\-iii\): \(\(3\)\) | Bonhams | N/A
22. 2022-03-02 | WANGECHI MUTU \(B. 1972\) You pretty, no you pretty watercolour, metallic pai | Christie's | £15,000
23. 2020-10-21 | WANGECHI MUTU \- Histology of the Different Classes of Uterine Tumors, 2006 | Phillips | $10,000
24. 2020-10-08 | Wangechi Mutu \(Kenyan, born 1972\) Two hand made birthday cards from the artist to fashion designer, Benjamin Liepelt \(2001\) unframed. \(\(2\)\) | Bonhams | N/A

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