Afewerk Tekle was an Ethiopian Postwar & Contemporary painter who was born in 1932. Afewerk Tekle's work has been offered at auction multiple times, with realized prices ranging from $220 USD to $42,933 USD, depending on the size and medium of the artwork. Since 2016 the record price for this artist at auction is $42,933 USD for Defender of his Country, sold at Sotheby's London in 2018. In MutualArt’s artist press archive, Afewerk Tekle is featured in Sotheby's Unveils Its Third Dedicated Sale of Modern & Contemporary African Art in London, a piece from ArtDaily in October 2018. The artist died in 2012.