Lot 280 · Evening Sale
Matimba hi nga swi kota! Wa hlonge yo basa I
Phillemon Hlungwani · charcoal on paper
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- Estimate
- R100,000–R150,000 hammer ≈ $5,802–$8,703
- Result
- Performance
- Sale
- Strauss & Co — Evening Sale, Johannesburg · 18 November 2025
- Dimensions
- 64 by 157cm excluding frame; 87 by 173 by 6cm including frame
- Record ID
- TB-2026-13337571
- Record
- first seen 4 Aug 2026 · updated 6 Aug 2026 · source ↗
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Phillemon Hlungwani, Matimba hi nga swi kota! Wa hlonge yo basa I. Strauss & Co, 18 Nov 2025, lot 280. result recorded. TheBasis.Art, TB-2026-13337571.
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Phillemon Hlungwani, Matimba hi nga swi kota! Wa hlonge yo basa I. Strauss & Co, 18 Nov 2025, lot 280. result recorded. TheBasis.Art, TB-2026-13337571.
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|---|---|---|---|
| Beach at Sunset | Walter Meyer | R50,000–R70,000 | |
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|---|---|---|---|---|
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| William Kentridge | Man with Megaphone | Bonhams, Jun 2024 | ||
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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.