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- Estimate
- £10,000–£15,000 hammer ≈ $14,152–$21,228
- Result
- Performance
- Sale
- Sotheby's — Modern & Contemporary African Art, London · 28 March 2018
- Record ID
- TB-2026-4645860
- Record
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Barthélémy Toguo, suspicious breasts. Sotheby's, 28 Mar 2018, lot 103. result recorded. TheBasis.Art, TB-2026-4645860.
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Barthélémy Toguo, suspicious breasts. Sotheby's, 28 Mar 2018, lot 103. result recorded. TheBasis.Art, TB-2026-4645860.
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From the same sale Modern & Contemporary African Art · Mar 2018
| Lot | Artist | Estimate | Result |
|---|---|---|---|
| market intrigues | Ablade Glover | £8,000–£12,000 | |
| tricky | Ransome Stanley | £6,000–£8,000 | |
| les bras môgô du ghetto 2 | Armand Boua | £7,000–£10,000 | |
| douala tonight | Boris Nzebo | £6,000–£9,000 | |
| moonlight | Driss Ouadahi | £12,000–£18,000 | |
| raising your own (kurera wako) | Virginia Chihota | £4,000–£6,000 |
Comparable results nearest sold works, same medium & price band
| Artist | Lot | vs. estimate | Result USD, incl. premium | Sale |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Barthélémy Toguo | Homing Pigeon | $23,547 | Christie's, Dec 2019 | |
| Barthélémy Toguo | Tournesol Man | Christie's, Jun 2019 | ||
| Barthélémy Toguo | Purification XXIX - 2010 | Artcurial, Dec 2020 | ||
| Barthélémy Toguo | forever growing | Sotheby's, Mar 2018 | ||
| Karel Appel | Head on Water , 1979 | Freeman's | Hindman, Dec 2021 | ||
| Karel Appel | Untitled | Rago, May 2025 | ||
| Karel Appel | [no title recorded] | Dorotheum, Nov 2023 | ||
| Barthélémy Toguo | Purification I | Christie's, Jun 2020 |
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.