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The price record for African art
We track prices for the artists that define this market, using real auction and gallery sales rather than guesswork. A person checks every figure before it goes out, and the method behind it is public. Use it to price a work, follow a market, or brief a client.
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A painting by an African-born artist sold for $10.7 million. Here's who actually got paid
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A dollar figure for East Africa's art market: $229,727, one November night in Nairobi
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Sotheby's closed its African art department. One painting made more than its best year ever
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What restitution does to the value of African art: the Benin Bronzes, by the numbers
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industry note
A painting by an African-born artist sold for $10.7 million. Here's who actually got paid
industry note
A dollar figure for East Africa's art market: $229,727, one November night in Nairobi
industry note
Sotheby's closed its African art department. One painting made more than its best year ever
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