Adjani Okpu-Egbe
Mute Lives
Estimate: 4.000 - 6.000 GBP
Price realised: 13.860 GBP
Price realised: 13.860 GBP
Description
Adjani Okpu-Egbe
Cameroonian
b.1979
Mute Lives
signed, titled and dated 2013 (on the reverse)
oil and acrylic on canvas
152 by 122cm., 59¾ by 48in.
Knight Webb Gallery, London | Acquired from the above by the present owner in 2013
Cameroonian
b.1979
Mute Lives
signed, titled and dated 2013 (on the reverse)
oil and acrylic on canvas
152 by 122cm., 59¾ by 48in.
Knight Webb Gallery, London | Acquired from the above by the present owner in 2013
Upper estimate price exceeded by more than 100%
This artwork by Adjani Okpu-Egbe achieved an unexpectedly high price at Sothebys in London in March 2021. In the Modern and Contemporary African Art auction, the work Mute Lives sold for GBP 13,860.00 (€ 16,281.93) - well above the upper estimate of GBP 6,000.00. Despite this good result, it is not the highest hammer price for an artwork by Adjani Okpu-Egbe; that achieved among the auctions we observed the lot Bearing Witness To Dystopia: Multigenerational Genocide, Fascism, And Rumours Of Civil War (Diptych), 2020 sold at auction in June 2021 with the realized price of EUR 24,390.00.
Oberer Schätzpreis um mehr als 100% übertroffen
Dieses Kunstwerk von Adjani Okpu-Egbe erzielte im März 2021 bei Sothebys in London einen unerwartet hohen Preis. In der Auktion Modern and Contemporary African Art wurde die Arbeit Mute Lives für GBP 13.860,00 (€ 16.281,93) versteigert – und damit weit über dem oberen Schätzpreis von GBP 6.000,00. Trotz des guten Ergebnisses ist dies nicht der höchste Zuschlag für ein Kunstwerk von Adjani Okpu-Egbe; den erzielte unter den von uns beobachteten Auktionen die Arbeit Bearing Witness To Dystopia: Multigenerational Genocide, Fascism, And Rumours Of Civil War (Diptych), 2020 im Juni 2021 mit dem Hammerpreis von EUR 24.390,00.
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