El Anatsui
Heat Index
48
Total Sales
139
Avg Price
$378,995
Sell-Through
100%
Est. Beat Rate
54%
Signals
0
Color Palette
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Price History
Auction Results
| Date | House | Title | Medium | Estimate | Hammer Price | vs Est. | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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2026-03-05 | Phillips | Zebra Square | aluminium liquor bottle c | $952,500–$1,270,000 | $1,292,188 | +2% |
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2026-03-04 | Sotheby's | G6 | aluminium, bottle caps an | $1,016,000–$1,524,000 | $991,228 | -35% |
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2026-02-26 | Christie's | Gold Band | hand-sculpted and formed | $45,000–$60,000 | $76,200 | +27% |
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2025-12-03 | Dorotheum | "Striped Flags" | inkjet pigment print in c | $13,080–$15,260 | $18,140 | +19% |
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2025-11-19 | Christie's | Tagomizor | aluminum bottle caps and | $600,000–$900,000 | $1,524,000 | +69% |
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2025-10-16 | Sotheby's | Hesitant Rivers | aluminium bottle caps and | $1,016,000–$1,524,000 | $1,607,053 | +5% |
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2025-10-09 | Bonhams | Sans titre | carved, incised, scorched | — | $29,771 | — |
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2025-10-08 | Bonhams | Change goes on | carved, incised, scorched | — | $111,322 | — |
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2025-06-05 | Swann | Paper and Gold | Color inkjet print with h | $7,500–$11,250 | $18,750 | +67% |
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2025-03-20 | Bonhams | Knives III | carved, incised, scorched | $38,100–$63,500 | $49,959 | -21% |
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2024-10-17 | Christie's | Baby’s Bedsheet | found aluminum bottle cap | $545,000–$763,000 | $889,373 | +17% |
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2024-10-16 | Bonhams | Migrations | carved, incised and paint | $19,050–$25,400 | $21,738 | -14% |
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2024-03-27 | Bonhams | Untitled | incised wood panels | $22,860–$31,750 | $29,071 | -8% |
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2024-03-27 | Bonhams | Grandma's Cloth Series | incised, scorched and acr | $38,100–$63,500 | $64,602 | +2% |
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2024-03-27 | Bonhams | Towards the Fire Bodies Unknown | carved, incised, scorched | $38,100–$63,500 | $48,451 | -24% |
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2023-12-14 | Phillips | Untitled | acrylic, keys and padlock | $15,000–$22,500 | $33,020 | +47% |
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2023-11-30 | Dorotheum | Striped Flags | pigment print collage on | $13,080–$15,260 | $24,323 | +59% |
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2023-11-07 | Christie's | Sechra | found aluminum bottle cap | $750,000–$1,125,000 | $1,260,000 | +12% |
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2023-10-13 | Christie's | Warrior | aluminium bottle caps and | $889,000–$1,270,000 | $1,024,941 | -19% |
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2023-10-13 | Sotheby's | Untitled | incised wood panels (8 pa | $15,240–$22,860 | $22,251 | -3% |
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2023-10-13 | Sotheby's | Untitled | incised wood panels (7 pa | $25,400–$38,100 | $41,323 | +8% |
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2023-10-12 | Bonhams | Nativity | carved, incised, scorched | $76,200–$114,300 | $95,861 | -16% |
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2023-10-12 | Sotheby's | Dexterity | aluminium and copper wire | $635,000–$889,000 | $1,347,191 | +52% |
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2023-10-07 | Phillips | Diaspora | archival dyes printed on | $25,600–$38,400 | $32,431 | -16% |
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2023-07-05 | Christie's | Rare Crowd Series No7 | oil on carved wood | $25,400–$38,100 | $28,383 | -26% |
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2023-06-29 | Christie's | Untitled | carved wood | $22,860–$31,750 | $34,690 | +9% |
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2023-06-27 | Sotheby's | Take My Hand | aluminum bottlecaps and c | $1,016,000–$1,524,000 | $2,180,034 | +43% |
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2023-05-15 | Christie's | Prophet | found aluminum bottle cap | $600,000–$900,000 | $2,228,000 | +148% |
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2023-03-22 | Bonhams | Untitled | carved, incised, and pain | $15,240–$22,860 | $38,872 | +70% |
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2023-03-22 | Bonhams | Untitled | incised and scorched wood | $25,400–$38,100 | $28,054 | -26% |
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2023-03-22 | Bonhams | 'Talakawa' | carved and painted wood | $25,400–$38,100 | $92,780 | +144% |
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2023-03-21 | Sotheby's | Untitled | incised wood panels | $25,400–$38,100 | $49,881 | +31% |
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2023-03-03 | Phillips | Gold Band | hand-sculpted and formed | $38,100–$63,500 | $99,353 | +56% |
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2022-10-14 | Sotheby's | Untitled | incised wooden panels | $31,750–$44,450 | $25,632 | -42% |
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2022-10-14 | Sotheby's | Untitled | incised wooden panels | $31,750–$44,450 | $25,632 | -42% |
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2022-10-14 | Sotheby's | Among Others | aluminium bottlecaps and | $1,016,000–$1,524,000 | $1,065,176 | -30% |
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2022-10-13 | Christie's | Drying Line | acrylic on carved wood | $76,200–$101,600 | $139,868 | +38% |
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2022-04-22 | Sotheby's | Untitled | tropical hardwoods and te | $25,400–$38,100 | $32,822 | -14% |
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2022-04-21 | Phillips | Paper & Gold | Pigment print in colors w | $9,000–$13,500 | $23,940 | +77% |
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2022-03-15 | Sotheby's | Revelations | aluminium bottle caps and | $762,000–$1,016,000 | $901,576 | -11% |
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2022-03-15 | Sotheby's | Wastepaper Basket | aluminium and copperwire | $127,000–$190,500 | $180,315 | -5% |
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2022-03-15 | Sotheby's | Untitled | incised wood panels | $31,750–$44,450 | $327,846 | +638% |
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2022-03-15 | Sotheby's | Untitled | incised wood panels | $31,750–$44,450 | $180,315 | +306% |
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2022-03-15 | Sotheby's | Old Curtain | tempera on tropical hardw | $38,100–$63,500 | $196,707 | +210% |
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2022-03-10 | Christie's | Gold Band | uv-cured acrylic resin in | $30,000–$45,000 | $75,600 | +68% |
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2022-03-09 | Bonhams | Migration | carved and incised wooden | $12,700–$19,050 | $28,162 | +48% |
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2022-03-02 | Sotheby's | Wade in the Water | aluminium bottle caps and | $825,500–$1,079,500 | $1,539,267 | +43% |
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2021-11-19 | Sotheby's | Mind Games | tropical hardwood and acr | $45,000–$60,000 | $157,500 | +162% |
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2021-11-13 | Bonhams | Nsukka Shrine | clay and pottery fragment | $21,800–$32,700 | $28,953 | -11% |
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2021-11-09 | Christie's | Lanogo | what from a distance appe | $900,000–$1,350,000 | $1,470,000 | +9% |
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2021-10-21 | Phillips | Black & Silver | Pigment print in colors w | $9,000–$13,500 | $13,860 | +3% |
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2021-10-21 | Phillips | Paper & Gold | Pigment print in colors w | $9,000–$13,500 | $15,120 | +12% |
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2021-10-12 | Bonhams | Curtain (yellow) | printed cloth | $6,350–$10,160 | $7,797 | -23% |
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2021-10-12 | Bonhams | Human Wall | carved and painted wood | $76,200–$114,300 | $93,782 | -18% |
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2021-05-11 | Christie's | New Layout | found aluminum bottlecaps | $900,000–$1,350,000 | $1,950,000 | +44% |
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2021-05-10 | Bukowskis | "Migrants and illusion" | 14 sculpted and painted w | $24,000–$28,800 | $65,022 | +126% |
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2021-04-22 | Phillips | Gold Band | Hand-sculpted and formed | $30,000–$45,000 | $81,900 | +82% |
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2021-04-15 | Phillips | Plot a Plan IV | aluminium and copper wire | $825,500–$1,079,500 | $1,298,601 | +20% |
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2021-03-17 | Bonhams | Curtain (yellow / orange) | printed cloth | $8,890–$12,700 | $19,463 | +53% |
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2021-03-17 | Bonhams | Mammoth Crowd Series I | carved and incised wooden | $38,100–$63,500 | $113,300 | +78% |
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2021-01-21 | Bonhams | A 'Wheel Rider' mascot, British, 1920s | signed ael, brass, 7in. h | — | $484 | — |
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2020-10-02 | Sotheby's | VUMEDI | metal bottletops and copp | $1,016,000–$1,524,000 | $1,344,654 | -12% |
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2020-09-02 | Bonhams | The Awaiting Crowd | carved and painted wood p | $26,250–$37,500 | $40,075 | +7% |
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2020-03-27 | Sotheby's | CROWD AWAITING | tropical hardwoods and te | $44,450–$69,850 | $53,345 | -24% |
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2020-03-27 | Sotheby's | ANCESTORS STARTING TO CONVERGE AGAIN | West African hardwoods | $25,400–$38,100 | $30,483 | -20% |
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2020-03-27 | Sotheby's | SCULPTURE I | camel thorn wood and stee | $88,900–$127,000 | $99,070 | -22% |
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2020-03-18 | Bonhams | Learned Papers | painted and incised wood | $25,400–$38,100 | $39,454 | +4% |
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2020-03-18 | Bonhams | Curtain (yellow / ochre) | dyed and printed cloth | — | $49,404 | — |
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2020-03-18 | Bonhams | Nsitkana's Bell | — | $27,640 | — | |
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2020-02-13 | Phillips | Affirmation | aluminium bottle caps and | $889,000–$1,143,000 | $1,193,526 | +4% |
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2019-10-15 | Sotheby's | PILGRIMS | 14 Panels, tropical hardw | $50,800–$76,200 | $110,336 | +45% |
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2019-10-04 | Sotheby's | TORN TOWEL | tempera on wood | $38,100–$50,800 | $46,280 | -9% |
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2019-05-16 | Phillips | Alter Ego | aluminum bottle caps and | $600,000–$900,000 | $860,000 | -4% |
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2019-05-02 | Bonhams | Untitled | painted and incised woode | — | $30,075 | — |
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2019-04-02 | Sotheby's | ZEBRA CROSSING 2 | sculpture | $698,500–$952,500 | $1,430,903 | +50% |
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2019-04-02 | Sotheby's | UNTITLED | paintings | $38,100–$63,500 | $65,338 | +3% |
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2018-11-16 | Christie's | Recycled Dreams (Uniting the World with | found aluminum bottle cap | $525,000–$750,000 | $1,512,500 | +102% |
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2018-10-30 | Phillips | Variation I_C | digital pigment print | $5,250–$7,500 | $9,375 | +25% |
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2018-10-25 | Christie's | Variation I_C | digital pigment print in | $5,250–$7,500 | $5,000 | -33% |
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2018-10-17 | Phillips | Blue Variation | Pigment print and offset | $9,000–$13,500 | $12,500 | -7% |
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2018-10-16 | Sotheby's | GAME ON GMA'S CLOTH | sculpture | $38,100–$63,500 | $74,181 | +17% |
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2018-10-16 | Sotheby's | TAGOMIZOR | sculpture | $698,500–$952,500 | $883,579 | -7% |
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2018-10-04 | Bonhams | Untitled | carved and incised wooden | $25,400–$38,100 | $29,300 | -23% |
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2018-10-04 | Bonhams | Untitled | painted and incised woode | $25,400–$38,100 | $30,928 | -19% |
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2018-10-04 | Bonhams | Chief with history behind him | aquatint and drypoint pri | $3,810–$6,350 | $9,766 | +54% |
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2018-10-04 | Bonhams | Migration | wooden panels | $12,700–$19,050 | $29,300 | +54% |
| 2018-03-28 | Sotheby's | GHANAIAN UNTITLED | $31,750–$44,450 | $42,249 | -5% | ||
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2018-02-28 | Bonhams | At the Ancestors' Conference | okpeye wood | $25,400–$38,100 | $65,334 | +71% |
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2017-11-16 | Swann | Pewter Variation | Pigment print with hand c | $11,250–$15,000 | $16,250 | +8% |
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2017-10-24 | Christie's | Diaspora | archival dyes printed on | $15,000–$22,500 | $40,000 | +78% |
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2017-10-05 | Bonhams | Untitled | painted and incised woode | $38,100–$63,500 | $45,918 | -28% |
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2017-10-05 | Bonhams | Crowd Awaiting | painted, carved and incis | $38,100–$63,500 | $24,598 | -61% |
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2017-10-05 | Bonhams | To the Sacred Mountain (Mammoth Crowd Se | painted and incised woode | $50,800–$76,200 | $59,037 | -23% |
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2017-10-05 | Bonhams | Spirit of the Forest | painted, carved and incis | $88,900–$127,000 | $106,595 | -16% |
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2017-05-22 | Arthouse Contemporary Limited | Reflekisi , 2017 | wood panel | $9,920–$11,780 | $52,028 | +342% |
| 2017-05-16 | Sotheby's | EARTH DEVELOPING MORE ROOTS | aluminium bottle caps and | $825,500–$1,079,500 | $941,294 | -13% | |
| 2017-05-16 | Sotheby's | THEY MADE IT HAPPEN, WATCHED IT HAPPEN B | wooden sculpture, 15 part | $38,100–$50,800 | $64,583 | +27% | |
| 2017-05-16 | Sotheby's | PATCHED CLOTH I | painted and incised wood | $22,860–$27,940 | $29,062 | +4% | |
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2017-03-08 | Christie's | Warrior | aluminium and copper wire | $508,000–$762,000 | $883,775 | +16% |
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2017-02-15 | Bonhams | Assorted Diamonds' | painted, carved and incis | — | $31,168 | — |
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2017-02-15 | Bonhams | Pata' | painted, carved | — | $34,285 | — |
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2016-11-14 | Arthouse Contemporary Limited | Ahe | wood panels | $10,540–$12,400 | $58,701 | +373% |
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2016-05-25 | Bonhams | Used Towel | carved, incised and paint | $63,500–$101,600 | $259,450 | +155% |
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2016-05-25 | Bonhams | Jesus Wept | carved wood | $19,050–$25,400 | $73,498 | +189% |
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2016-05-25 | Bonhams | Burnt wood | carved wood relief with a | $31,750–$44,450 | $40,424 | -9% |
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2016-05-25 | Bonhams | Untitled | incised and scorched wood | $38,100–$63,500 | $118,332 | +86% |
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2016-05-11 | Christie's | Exoke | aluminum and copper wire | $450,000–$600,000 | $845,000 | +41% |
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2016-02-25 | Christie's | Diaspora | Archival dyes printed on | $2,250–$3,750 | $17,500 | +367% |
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2016-02-11 | Bonhams | Peju's Robe | aluminium and copper wire | $571,500–$698,500 | $1,167,921 | +67% |
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2015-11-02 | Arthouse Contemporary Limited | Fragmented thoughts II | wood panels | $4,340–$5,580 | $53,739 | +863% |
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2015-11-02 | Arthouse Contemporary Limited | Tabula Rasa | wood panels | $6,820–$8,680 | $62,225 | +617% |
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2015-05-20 | Bonhams | Two hands and two feet | carved wood relief with a | $25,400–$38,100 | $97,108 | +155% |
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2015-05-20 | Bonhams | Crowd awaiting | carved wood relief with a | $19,050–$25,400 | $97,108 | +282% |
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2015-05-12 | Christie's | Plot a Plan I | found aluminum and copper | $525,000–$675,000 | $1,085,000 | +61% |
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2015-05-11 | Arthouse Contemporary Limited | Tror | wood panels | $4,960–$6,200 | $37,498 | +505% |
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2015-05-11 | Arthouse Contemporary Limited | Zata | wood panels | $9,300–$11,160 | $77,203 | +592% |
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2015-04-21 | Sotheby's | Untitled | found aluminum and copper | $600,000–$900,000 | $910,000 | +1% |
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2014-11-13 | Christie's | They are Still Coming Back | aluminum liquor bottle ca | $525,000–$750,000 | $1,025,000 | +37% |
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2014-11-12 | Sotheby's | Untitled | $525,000–$750,000 | $989,000 | +32% | |
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2014-11-03 | Arthouse Contemporary Limited | Mask | manganese body and clay | $6,510–$7,440 | $75,662 | +917% |
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2014-10-17 | Sotheby's | Untitled | aluminium and copper wire | $635,000–$889,000 | $969,605 | +9% |
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2014-05-21 | Bonhams | Kente on Lace | carved wood relief with a | $31,750–$44,450 | $38,021 | -14% |
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2014-05-21 | Bonhams | OgaI | carved wood relief with a | $31,750–$44,450 | $46,470 | +5% |
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2014-05-21 | Bonhams | The Clan | wood relief with acrylic | $31,750–$44,450 | $46,470 | +5% |
| 2014-05-15 | Sotheby's | PATHS TO THE OKRO FARM | aluminum and copper wire | $525,000–$750,000 | $1,445,000 | +93% | |
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2014-05-05 | Arthouse Contemporary Limited | Nsuka shrine | clay | $4,340–$5,580 | $53,992 | +868% |
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2014-02-12 | Sotheby's | Untitled | aluminium bottle tops, co | $508,000–$762,000 | $761,398 | -0% |
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2013-11-18 | Arthouse Contemporary Limited | Ends and means committee | wood and aluminum | $7,440–$9,300 | $83,078 | +793% |
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2013-06-25 | Christie's | Energy Spill | aluminium and copper wire | $571,500–$825,500 | $1,077,519 | +31% |
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2013-05-22 | Bonhams | Migrants & illusion | carved hardwood and tempe | $31,750–$44,450 | $63,317 | +42% |
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2013-05-16 | Christie's | Another Plot | aluminum and copper wire | $450,000–$600,000 | $1,179,750 | +97% |
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2013-03-26 | Artcurial | Connexions | pyrogravure heightened wi | $10,900–$16,350 | $19,862 | +21% |
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2013-03-26 | Artcurial | Pilgrims | pyrogravure heightened wi | $10,900–$16,350 | $26,484 | +62% |
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2013-03-08 | Christie's | Grandma's Cloth Series | fifteen elements--wood pa | $22,500–$30,000 | $43,750 | +46% |
| 2013-02-12 | Sotheby's | ZEBRA CROSSING 2 | aluminium and copper wire | $317,500–$444,500 | $772,245 | +74% | |
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2012-11-15 | Christie's | Dzodze | aluminum and copper wire | $450,000–$600,000 | $722,500 | +20% |
| 2012-11-14 | Sotheby's | BLEMA | aluminum and copper wire | $487,500–$637,500 | $722,500 | +13% | |
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2012-05-23 | Bonhams | New World Map | aluminium bottle caps and | $635,000–$1,016,000 | $850,361 | -16% |
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2012-05-10 | Bonhams | Harbinger | found aluminum and copper | $525,000–$675,000 | $722,500 | +7% |