Lot 4 · Modern, Post-War and Contemporary Art
Ndhwalo va Ringetela Emakatleni (The Bigger Your Problems, the Harder You Must Work to Overcome Them)
Phillemon Hlungwani · etching laid down on card
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- Estimate
- R15,000–R20,000 hammer ≈ $996–$1,328
- Result
- Performance
- Sale
- Strauss & Co — Modern, Post-War and Contemporary Art, Online · 14 March 2022
- Dimensions
- 96 by 65cm excluding frame; 112,5 by 83,5 by 5cm including frame
- Record ID
- TB-2026-13373080
- Record
- first seen 4 Aug 2026 · updated 11 Aug 2026 · source ↗
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- TB-2026-13373080 — https://thebasis.art/cite/TB-2026-13373080
Phillemon Hlungwani, Ndhwalo va Ringetela Emakatleni (The Bigger Your Problems, the Harder You Must Work to Overcome Them). Strauss & Co, 14 Mar 2022, lot 4. bought in (did not sell). TheBasis.Art, TB-2026-13373080.
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Phillemon Hlungwani, Ndhwalo va Ringetela Emakatleni (The Bigger Your Problems, the Harder You Must Work to Overcome Them). Strauss & Co, 14 Mar 2022, lot 4. bought in (did not sell). TheBasis.Art, TB-2026-13373080.
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|---|---|---|---|---|
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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.