# Willie Bester - Auction Profile

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Updated: 2026-05-04T14:53:14.385Z

## Summary
- Lots tracked: 58
- Lots with prices: 30
- First auction date: 2004-05-31
- Latest auction date: 2025-11-26
- Median realised price: $4,750
- Price range: $625 to $220,000

## Market Takeaway
Willie Bester has 58 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $4,750. Category concentration is still broad. Last 12 months recorded 3 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 \($4,750\) as a typical result and the typical low/high band \($2,750 to $12,500\) 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: 6.7% (2 sales)
- $1,000 to $10,000: 63.3% (19 sales)
- $10,000\+: 30% (9 sales)

## Recent Trend & Velocity
- Last 12 months sales: 3
- Previous 12 months sales: 1
- Recent 12 months median: $120,000
- Previous 12 months median: $0
- Median shift: N/A
- Latest sale date: 2025-11-26
- Days since latest sale: 159
- Market velocity: steady

## Top Auction Houses
- Bonhams: 23 lots
- Aspire Art: 12 lots
- 5th Avenue Auctioneers: 6 lots
- Phillips: 3 lots
- Art\-Rite: 2 lots
- Christie's: 2 lots
- Piasa: 2 lots
- Stephan Welz & Co: 2 lots
- Strauss & Co: 2 lots
- AAG Auctioneers: 1 lots

## Top Categories
- N/A

## Recent Sold Lots
1. 2025-11-26 | Willie Bester \(South Africa 1956\-\), Music for Rafa | Aspire Art | ZAR 120,000
2. 2025-09-17 | Willie Bester \(South Africa 1956\-\) , Portrait of Peter Clarke | Aspire Art | N/A
3. 2025-09-17 | Willie Bester \(South Africa 1956\-\) , Portrait of a Man | Aspire Art | N/A
4. 2024-10-27 | Willie Bester \(SA, Born 1956\) Mixed Media, Abstract, Signed & Dated '90, 60 x 90 Unframed | 5th Avenue Auctioneers | N/A
5. 2023-10-15 | Willie Bester \(SA, Born 1956\) Oil, "Sunshine", Signed Dated '01 & Titled, 45 x 31 | 5th Avenue Auctioneers | N/A
6. 2023-04-11 | Willie Bester \(b. 1956\), Untitled, Mixed media on artist board, 16" H x 34" W | John Moran Auctioneers | $1,625
7. 2023-02-09 | WILLIE BESTER, UNTITLED | Art\-Rite | €687
8. 2023-02-09 | WILLIE BESTER, UNTITLED | Art\-Rite | €1,250
9. 2021-09-30 | Willie Bester \(South Africa 1956\-\), Guitar I | Aspire Art | N/A
10. 2021-09-30 | Willie Bester \(South Africa 1956\-\), Transition | Aspire Art | N/A
11. 2021-04-21 | Willie Bester \(South Africa 1956\-\) Untitled \(Dry cleaners\), 1997 | Aspire Art | ZAR 20,000
12. 2021-03-04 | Willie Bester, The Missing Ones | Aspire Art | ZAR 50,000
13. 2020-11-23 | Willie Bester \(South African, born 1956\) South African township | Bonhams | £1,400
14. 2020-10-07 | Willie Bester \(born 1956, South Africa\) Human rights, 1991 | Piasa | €3,000
15. 2020-10-07 | Willie Bester \(born 1956, South Africa\) Landscapes Crossroads, 1992 | Piasa | €4,160
16. 2019-11-22 | Willie Bester, oil and collage on board, 1997 | Millea Bros Ltd | $1,100
17. 2019-10-19 | Willie Bester \- Codesa | Strauss & Co | N/A
18. 2019-10-19 | Willie Bester \- Home Coming | Strauss & Co | N/A
19. 2019-03-20 | Willie Bester \(South African, born 1956\) "ANC Lives" 155 x 37 x 7cm \(61 x 14 9/16 x 2 3/4in\). | Bonhams | N/A
20. 2018-09-12 | Willie Bester \(South African, born 1956\) The Truth and Reconciliation Commission | Bonhams | N/A
21. 2018-06-17 | Willie Bester, Stop Apartheid Now | Aspire Art | ZAR 18,000
22. 2018-03-28 | WILLIE BESTER \| Care for the children | Sotheby's | £8,000
23. 2018-03-25 | NY8 | Aspire Art | ZAR 32,000
24. 2018-03-21 | WILLIE BESTER \(SOUTH AFRICAN, BORN 1956\) Semekazi \(Migrant Miseries\) oil, enamel and | Bonhams | £5,000

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