Wim Botha: career timeline

South African · b. 1974 · Works grouped by the decade they were made (the cataloged date, or a date in the signature or title), not by sale date. 11 of 24 lots (46% of works) have a usable creation date; the others are listed at the end by the decade they were sold. Each work is shown once, even when it sold more than once.

Wim Botha: works at auction by decade the work was made. Each work counted once; medians use sold works only, in US dollars.

Decade made	Works	Sold	Median sold price	Main medium
2000s	3	2	$47.9kSign up	Woodcut / linocut
2010s	8	5	$12.8kSign up	Other

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Year madeHeight (in)Width (in)MediumSubject

2000s 3 works

Sold: 2 of 3
Median: $47.9kSign up
Average: $47.9kSign up
Typical size: 40.5 × 62 in (104 × 158 cm)
Mediums: Woodcut / linocut (1), Sculpture (1), Mixed media (1)
Subjects: Sea & coast (1)

2010s 8 works

Sold: 5 of 8
Median: $12.8kSign up
Average: $12kSign up
Typical size: 17 × 17 in (44 × 43 cm)
Mediums: Other (3), Drawing (2), Sculpture (1)
Subjects: Figures & portraits (1)

2011 Ohne Titel (Witness Series V)$12.8kSign up
2011 Study for Head of an Outraged Youth I$17.5kSign up
2011 Untitled (Witness Series V)Unsold
2012 Time MachineUnsold
2013 A Thousand Things, Part 50Unsold
2014 Thousand Things, Part 146$1.3kSign up
2014 A Thousand Things Part 97$995Sign up
2015 Untitled 4 (Mercy Paintings)$27.3kSign up

Creation date not recorded

13 works have no cataloged or signed date. They are grouped here by the decade they were last sold, which says nothing about when they were made.

Undated, sold in the 2010s 8 works

Sold: 4 of 8
Median: $4.3kSign up
Average: $4.7kSign up
Typical size: 36 × 18 in (92 × 46 cm)
Mediums: Sculpture (3), Oil (2), Etching (2)
Subjects: —

sold 2014 Untitled (Red Velvet I, II and III)$9.7kSign up
sold 2016 Untitled (Table II)$780Sign up
sold 2016 The KillUnsold
sold 2018 Maquette for Wings II$7.8kSign up
sold 2019 DragonUnsold
sold 2019 FaultlinesUnsold

Show 2 more (2010s)

sold 2019 Coat of Arms I$653Sign up
sold 2019 Prism 17Unsold

Undated, sold in the 2020s 5 works

Sold: 3 of 5
Median: $15.2kSign up
Average: $12.8kSign up
Typical size: 24 × 11.5 in (62 × 30 cm)
Mediums: Other (1), Etching (1), Sculpture (1)
Subjects: Figures & portraits (2)

sold 2020 Buffalo Heads; two$23kSign up
sold 2021 Chain of Command$117Sign up
sold 2021 Head$15.2kSign up
sold 2023 Cloud Study 04Unsold
sold 2025 Thousand Things, Part 28Unsold

Medians and averages count sold works only (each work's most recent sale), in US dollars at the sale-date rate. Works cataloged as “attributed to”, “circle of” or similar are left out. All Wim Botha auction results →