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Etching · Paper
Strauss & Co · Sep 21, 2026ZAR 8,198 ≈ $504 ≈ £376 ≈ €439Sign up free to see price
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Ruan Hoffmann (South African, b. 1971)
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ZAR 15,243 price realized incl. premium
≈ $1,090≈ £767≈ €892
Hammer ZAR 13,000 · with buyer’s premium ZAR 15,243
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- Medium
- Sculpture · Sculpture all sculpture results →As published: “ceramic earthenware with underglaze, on-glaze enamels and gold lustre”
- Signed / inscribed
- Signed with the artist's initials
- Category
- Other
- Dimensions
- diameter: 41cm
- Auction house
- Strauss & Co
- Sale
- Modern, Post-War and Contemporary Art (144)
- Date
- May 18, 2021
- Location
- South Africa
- Lot
- 45
- Estimate
- ZAR 8,000 – ZAR 12,000 (≈ $572 – $858) (≈ £403 – £604) (≈ €468 – €702)
- Source
- Auction house straussart.co.za ↗Retrieved Sep 26, 2026
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