Art News: Slawn Art in 2026, What His Prints and Paintings Sell For

Slawn has had a big year outside the saleroom. His show BOBO in Lagos, his largest in Nigeria, closed in February; Saatchi Yates turned its London gallery into his working studio at the start of the year and took him to New York in July; Nike based a special-edition Nigeria football kit on his work for the World Cup summer; and in Frieze week he staged a painting performance with cranes in a London car park. At auction the picture is quieter. The sixteen of his works we can find at auction in 2026 were all at Tate Ward in London or in its online sales on Artsy, and none made more than £1,188. Here is every result, and what it means if you own Slawn art and are thinking of selling.

Slawn's crane painting, staged with Saatchi Yates in a car park on Doon Street during Frieze week, October 2026.

Slawn auction results in 2026

Work	What it is	Price	When
Minute Men, 2025	Unique ink drawing, signed and numbered	£1,188	August, online
P-Nutzz	Acrylic and oilstick on canvas, 30 × 30 cm	£1,188	August, online
Untitled, 2026, with Opake	Unique mixed media on paper	£812	August, online
Donald Duck, 2025, with Opake	Hand-embellished print, artist's proof	£625	August, online
Air Slawn / Puppy Dog, 2025	Screenprint	£525	September
Minute Men, 2025	Unique ink drawing, signed and numbered	£500	May, online
Minute Men, 2025	Unique ink drawing, signed and numbered	£450	June
Untitled, 2025	Unique spray paint on paper	£375	March
Untitled, 2025	Unique spray paint on paper	£375	March
Untitled, 2025	Unique ink on paper	£375	March
Tokyo, 2023	Screenprint, edition of 250	£275	September
Rodman, 2025	Open-edition print	£250	February, online
Pound, 2024	Screenprint, edition of 60	£250	February, online
Skepta, 2023	Mixed media on canvas, 84 × 59 cm	Not sold, estimate £2,000–3,000	September
Mona Lisa, 2025	Pigment print, printed signature	Not sold, estimate £200–300	June
Skate Deck, 2025	Unique ink on a skateboard deck	Not sold, estimate £200–300	June

All at Tate Ward. Prices include the buyer's premium.

What sells, and for how much

Slawn prints: £250 to £525. His prints come in two kinds: open editions, printed digitally on archival paper in no fixed number, and numbered screenprints. So far the difference at auction has been small. The open-edition Rodman made £250 in February and a pigment print of the Mona Lisa did not sell in June, while the screenprints Pound (an edition of 60) and Tokyo (an edition of 250) made £250 and £275, and Air Slawn / Puppy Dog £525 in September. The one hand-embellished print, an artist's proof made with Opake, did best at £625.

Unique works on paper: £375 to £1,188. Most of the activity is in drawings. Three unique works on paper made £375 each in March. Minute Men, a 2025 series of signed and numbered ink drawings, each one unique, has come up five times since December: £625 and £750 in December 2025, then £500 in May, £450 in June and £1,188 in August, on an estimate of £300 to £500. The numbers on the sheets run at least as high as 559, so there are a great many of them, and the price depends on the drawing, its size and who is bidding that day.

Slawn paintings: well below 2024. The canvases are where the market has changed most. In 2024 his paintings were going to Sotheby's and Bonhams on estimates of £5,000 to £9,000 for a single canvas, and Alara, Ajero and Orangun, painted in 2023, made £31,750 at Sotheby's in London in March 2024, still his auction record. The two canvases we can find at auction this year were both at Tate Ward: P-Nutzz, 30 cm square, made £1,188 in August on an estimate of £600 to £800, and Skepta, a larger canvas of 2023, did not sell in September at £2,000 to £3,000.

If you bought one of the thousand canvases

Slawn's first major London show, I present to you, Slawn at Saatchi Yates in the autumn of 2024, was built around a wall of 1,000 small canvases at £1,000 each, and every one sold. If you own one, the nearest public comparison is P-Nutzz, a small canvas that made £1,188 in August. That figure includes the buyer's fees; the seller receives the hammer price less commission, which is less than the £1,000 those canvases cost. One result is not a price guide, and a different image or a stronger sale could do better or worse.

What decides the value of a Slawn

Unique or edition. A painting or a drawing is worth more than a print, and the gap is wide: £1,188 for a small canvas against £250 for a screenprint this year.

Size and date. The canvases that went to Sotheby's and Bonhams in 2024 were mostly works from 2020 to 2023, some well over a metre wide.

Where it came from. Much of his work has been sold through drops, collaborations and directly from the studio, so the paperwork matters as much as the work: keep the invoice, the order confirmation from the drop, the gallery receipt or the messages with the studio. Several of the paintings offered at Sotheby's were catalogued as bought directly from the artist.

Condition. Works on paper are often kept unframed, and creases, tears and handling marks to the sheet all appear in condition reports and cost money at auction.

Selling Slawn art

With so few results there is no price guide to look up, and a valuation rests on the closest comparisons and on the paperwork. Auction is one route; for a painting, a confidential private sale to a collector is another, and we compare the two for you. Our page on Slawn covers the artist and his market, and he is one of the artists on our page for selling African art.

If you own a Slawn print, drawing or painting and are thinking of selling, send us photographs for a free valuation. There is no obligation to sell, and we act for you rather than for the saleroom.

Cover: the Old Truman Brewery on Brick Lane, where Slawn had his first exhibition in September 2021. Photo: Robert Lamb, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.