Dumile Auction Prices and Value Guide

Dumile auction prices are tracked in Appraisily's artist market index, with source-directory coverage of 169 records. Use this page to review sold-lot activity, market context, and valuation factors before requesting a formal appraisal.

Dumile auction prices: quick answer

Dumile auction prices depend on medium, size, date, condition, provenance, edition details, attribution confidence, and recent comparable auction sales.

Artist
Dumile
Source records
169
Market update
2026-02-06

Dumile market snapshot

Dumile shows solid auction liquidity with 51 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $62,000. Category concentration is still broad or sparse. Last 12 months recorded 1 sales. Latest recorded sale: 2025-06-25.

Realized price distribution

  • Under $1,000 (0.0% · 0 sales)
  • $1,000 to $10,000 (11.8% · 4 sales)
  • $10,000+ (88.2% · 30 sales)
Median sale (last 12 months)
$0
Sales recorded (last 12 months)
1
Median shift vs prior year
0.0%
Latest recorded sale
2025-06-25

Artist context

About Dumile

Dumile portrait
George Hallett · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source

Born

1939

Died

1991

Nationality

South African

Also known as

Dumile Feni, Zwelidumile Geelboi Mgxaji Mhlaba Feni

Dumile Feni was a South African visual artist who worked across drawing, painting, sculpture, and printmaking. Authority records identify him as Dumile or Dumile Feni; public biographical material gives his fuller name as Zwelidumile Geelboi Mgxaji Mhlaba Feni. His art is associated with apartheid-era South African experience, and published accounts describe work addressing political struggle, displacement, violence, and human suffering. He spent a substantial part of his career in exile, an important context for interpreting works made or circulated outside South Africa. Dumile is especially recognized for expressive drawings, including large-format works, alongside paintings and sculpture. Collectors may consequently encounter objects attributed to him in several media rather than one standardized category. His birth year remains disputed: Getty-linked, VIAF, and IdRef authority data include 1939, while Wikidata and other VIAF contributors give 1942. The sources consistently identify 1991 as his year of death.

DrawingsPaintingsSculpturePrintsThe struggle against apartheid in South AfricaHuman suffering, displacement, and political struggle

Common works and media

Works associated with Dumile Feni commonly appear in broad categories that include drawings and other works on paper, paintings, sculpture, and prints. Biographical sources particularly emphasize his drawings and sculpture, while authority records also classify him as a painter and printmaker. The collected material does not establish specific paper types, printing processes, sculpture editions, casting practices, or a catalogue of authenticated works, so those details should be verified object by object rather than inferred from the artist's name.

Market and appraisal context

Appraisal should begin by confirming that a work is associated with Dumile Feni and by distinguishing among drawings, paintings, prints, and sculpture. The available sources support those broad categories but do not document artist-specific price relationships, edition practices, provenance patterns, or condition effects. When public auction results are available, comparable lots should be matched by work type, materials, approximate date, dimensions, subject context, attribution level, sale date, and condition rather than grouped solely under the name Dumile. Appraisily's input indicates an auction-record corpus for this artist, but the collected pack contains no individual lot descriptions or realized prices. It therefore supports identity and category research, not a price prediction.

Auction categories and appraisal factors

Common auction categories

  • Works on paper and drawings
  • Paintings
  • Sculpture
  • Prints

Value drivers

  1. Work type and medium, particularly the distinction among drawings, paintings, prints, and sculpture
  2. Accurate attribution and name matching to Dumile Feni rather than an unidentified artist recorded only as Dumile
  3. Date and relationship to the artist's South African or exile-period practice
  4. Comparable public auction records matched by medium and work type, when sufficiently documented records are available

Appraisal caveats

  • The collected pack contains no individual auction lots, realized prices, condition reports, provenance histories, edition details, or major-auction-house market commentary.
  • No price trend, category premium, scarcity claim, or forecast can be supported from this source pack.
  • The birth-year conflict should be resolved when cataloguing a work, especially where external records use different lifespan forms.

Evidence

Sources for artist context

This source-grounded artist context is based on collected public records: medium confidence, adequate source quality.

Source-grounded artist Markdown

Data basis

This page is built from Appraisily's public auction market index. Private transactions, incomplete sale feeds, and attribution changes may not be fully represented.

LLM-readable Markdown summary for Dumile

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Artist value FAQ

How much is Dumile worth?

Comparable public auction sales are the best starting point, but final value depends on the specific artwork, condition, size, medium, provenance, and attribution confidence.

Can Appraisily value my Dumile artwork?

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