Zakkie Eloff Auction Prices and Value Guide
Zakkie Eloff auction prices are tracked in Appraisily's artist market index, with source-directory coverage of 180 records. Use this page to review sold-lot activity, market context, and valuation factors before requesting a formal appraisal.
Zakkie Eloff auction prices: quick answer
Zakkie Eloff auction prices depend on medium, size, date, condition, provenance, edition details, attribution confidence, and recent comparable auction sales.
- Artist
- Zakkie Eloff
- Source records
- 180
- Market update
- 2026-02-06
Zakkie Eloff market snapshot
Zakkie Eloff shows solid auction liquidity with 74 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $3,360. Category concentration is still broad or sparse. Last 12 months recorded 4 sales. Latest recorded sale: 2025-04-16.
Realized price distribution
- Under $1,000 (16.7% · 5 sales)
- $1,000 to $10,000 (53.3% · 16 sales)
- $10,000+ (30.0% · 9 sales)
- Median sale (last 12 months)
- $1,000
- Sales recorded (last 12 months)
- 4
- Median shift vs prior year
- +100.0%
- Latest recorded sale
- 2025-04-16
Artist context
About Zakkie Eloff
Born
1925
Died
2004
Nationality
South African
Also known as
Zaccharia Eloff
Zakkie Eloff (1925–2004) was a South African painter known for depicting animals in natural settings. Wikidata and VIAF identify him as a South African painter and corroborate his life years, while an Afrikaans Wikipedia biography provides the available training history. That account identifies Zaccharia as his given name, says he was born in Botswana, and records studies at Pretoria Boys High School under Walter Battiss. It also describes later training in Johannesburg with Maurice van Essche and Phyllis Gardiner, followed by a 1957 study trip that included work at London's Central School of Art. Collectors are therefore most likely to encounter Eloff through paintings associated with animal and natural-world imagery. The collected sources do not establish a formal movement, named series, exact birth or death dates, or a catalogue raisonné. Those gaps matter for precise cataloguing, so attribution should rest on the object and its documented history rather than on biography alone.
PaintingAnimals in natural settings
Common works and media
The available sources most securely support describing Eloff as a painter whose documented subject focus was animals in natural settings. The source pack does not establish particular paint media, print editions, sculptures, ceramics, drawings, posters, named series, or recurring formats. Auction and appraisal descriptions should therefore avoid assigning a specific technique or series unless it can be verified from the object and its documentation.
Market and appraisal context
The supplied Appraisily input associates 180 auction-directory records with Zakkie Eloff, but the collected public page returned a rate-limit response and the source pack contains no individual lot descriptions, sale dates, estimates, or realized prices. An appraisal should begin by confirming that the object is a painting attributable to Eloff and recording whether its subject corresponds to the animal-in-nature imagery described in the available biography. Medium, dimensions, signature or inscriptions, date, condition, provenance, and relevant comparable public sales should be verified from object and lot documentation before reaching a valuation conclusion. This profile does not support a price trend, scarcity claim, premium, or prediction.
Auction categories and appraisal factors
Common auction categories
- Paintings
Value drivers
- Work type and medium: confirm that the object is a painting, the only medium established by the collected identity sources
- Subject matter: animals in natural settings are the clearest documented focus in the collected biography
Appraisal caveats
- The supplied Appraisily input associates 180 auction-directory records with this artist name, but the public artist page returned a rate-limit response during collection.
- The source pack contains no individual lot descriptions, sale dates, estimates, realized prices, dimensions, condition reports, provenance records, or edition information.
- No price trend, scarcity claim, market premium, or valuation prediction can be supported from this source pack.
Evidence
Sources for artist context
This source-grounded artist context is based on collected public records: medium confidence, adequate source quality.
- Wikidata library authority
- VIAF library authority
- Bibliothèque nationale de France library authority
- Wikipedia wikipedia
- Appraisily appraisily artist page
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.
Artist value FAQ
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