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Mixed media · Board
Strauss & Co · May 11, 2026ZAR 8,198 ≈ $498 ≈ £366 ≈ €424Sign up free to see price
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Auction result
District Six
Willie Bester (South African, b. 1956) · 2003
Unsold / did not meet reserve
Estimate ZAR 25,000 – ZAR 30,000 (≈ $1,446 – $1,735) (≈ £1,076 – £1,291) (≈ €1,233 – €1,480)
Offered at Strauss & Co and passed / bought in. Counted in the artist’s sell-through rate; no price, so not in price averages.
Auction history of this work: offered 2 times ↓
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- Medium
- Oil · Paintings all oil results →As published: “oil and found objects”
- Signed / inscribed
- Signed and dated 03
- Category
- Oil paintings
- Dimensions
- height: 105,5cm; width: 93,5cm; depth: 9cm
- Auction house
- Strauss & Co
- Sale
- September ART (408)
- Date
- September 29, 2025
- Location
- South Africa
- Lot
- 268
- Estimate
- ZAR 25,000 – ZAR 30,000 (≈ $1,446 – $1,735) (≈ £1,076 – £1,291) (≈ €1,233 – €1,480)
- Source
- Auction house straussart.co.za ↗Retrieved Sep 26, 2026
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Provenance trail: auction history of this work
Offered twice between 2024 and 2025 · sold 0 · bought in / unsold 2
Dec 2, 2024 · Strauss & Co
November ART, lot 51
Bought in / unsold · est. ZAR 30,000 – ZAR 50,000
As catalogued
Willie Bester, “District Six”
oil and found objects
height: 105,5cm; width: 93,5cm; depth: 9cm
Sep 29, 2025 · Strauss & Co this result
September ART, lot 268
Bought in / unsold · est. ZAR 25,000 – ZAR 30,000
As catalogued
Willie Bester, “District Six”, 2003
oil and found objects
height: 105,5cm; width: 93,5cm; depth: 9cm
Appearances are linked when the photographs match and the size, medium and title agree (match confidence 88%). Casts and prints are linked only when the cast or impression number also matches. Price changes compare each sold price with the previous one (in USD at each sale’s exchange rate when the currencies differ). Details are shown as each house published them.
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