Lot 73 · Evening Sale
Untitled (Red, White, Yellow, Brown), Colour Me Series, four
Berni Searle · handprinted colour photograph
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- Estimate
- R300,000–R400,000 hammer ≈ $18,341–$24,454
- Result
- Performance
- Sale
- Strauss & Co — Evening Sale, Johannesburg · 26 May 2026
- Dimensions
- each 37 by 45cm; 51,5 by 61,5 by 4,5cm including frame
- Record ID
- TB-2026-13306589
- Record
- first seen 4 Aug 2026 · updated 5 Aug 2026 · source ↗
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Berni Searle, Untitled (Red, White, Yellow, Brown), Colour Me Series, four. Strauss & Co, 26 May 2026, lot 73. result recorded. TheBasis.Art, TB-2026-13306589.
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Berni Searle, Untitled (Red, White, Yellow, Brown), Colour Me Series, four. Strauss & Co, 26 May 2026, lot 73. result recorded. TheBasis.Art, TB-2026-13306589.
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The closest sold results by price, artist, and medium — the appraiser's comp set, generated from the corpus. All figures converted to USD at current reference rates.