# Arthur Okamura - Auction Profile

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Updated: 2026-05-15T17:56:38.503Z

## Summary
- Lots tracked: 78
- Lots with prices: 68
- First auction date: 2004-05-25
- Latest auction date: 2025-12-18
- Median realised price: $800
- Price range: $150 to $8,125

## Market Takeaway
Arthur Okamura shows solid auction liquidity with 78 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $800. Category concentration is still broad or sparse. Last 12 months recorded 2 sales. Latest recorded sale: 2025-12-18.

## How To Read This Data
- Use the median \($800\) as a typical result; many comparable sales cluster between $500 and $1,600.
- Auction totals can include buyer premiums or fees depending on reporting, so compare like\-for\-like when possible.
- Condition, size, medium, provenance, and attribution confidence can move value materially versus median comps.

## Price Bands
- Under $1,000: 60.3% (41 sales)
- $1,000 to $10,000: 39.7% (27 sales)
- $10,000\+: 0% (0 sales)

## Recent Trend & Velocity
- Last 12 months sales: 2
- Previous 12 months sales: 4
- Recent 12 months median: $500
- Previous 12 months median: $1,716
- Median shift: 0%
- Latest sale date: 2025-12-18
- Days since latest sale: 62
- Market velocity: steady

## Top Auction Houses
- Bonhams: 49 lots
- Clars Auctions: 4 lots
- John Moran Auctioneers: 3 lots
- Christie's: 2 lots
- Clark's Fine Art & Auctioneers Inc.: 2 lots
- Concept Art Gallery: 2 lots
- Swann Auction Galleries: 2 lots
- Toomey & Co. Auctioneers: 2 lots
- William J Jenack Auctioneers: 2 lots
- Butterscotch Auction Gallery LLC: 1 lots

## Top Categories
- N/A

## Recent Sold Lots
1. 2025-12-18 | Arthur Okamura, Two Birds and a Box, 1965. | Swann Auction Galleries | $2,112
2. 2025-06-26 | Arthur Okamura, Hand Still Life | Toomey & Co. Auctioneers | $500
3. 2024-12-07 | Arthur Okamura 1966 pastel and mixed media White Classic | Concept Art Gallery | $375
4. 2024-12-07 | Arthur Okamura 1959 oil Phrases for a Crescent Moon | Concept Art Gallery | $7,500
5. 2024-10-15 | Arthur Okamura \(1932\-2009\), "Image \#25," 1957 | John Moran Auctioneers | $1,716
6. 2024-09-19 | ARTHUR OKAMURA \(1932\-2009\) Fog in the Valley. | Swann Auction Galleries | $8,125
7. 2023-10-07 | Arthur Okamura Oil on Linen Portrait of Two Nude Figures | Case Antiques, Inc. Auctions & Appraisals | N/A | source: https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot-arthur-okamura-oil-on-linen-portrait-of-two-nude-figures-264-c-9e24b58a8d
8. 2023-09-27 | Arthur Okamura \(1932\-2009\) California \(two\) | Clark's Fine Art & Auctioneers Inc. | $150
9. 2023-08-09 | Arthur Okamura \(1932\-2009\) California \(two\) | Clark's Fine Art & Auctioneers Inc. | N/A
10. 2023-02-07 | Arthur Okamura \(1932\-2009\); Yin\-Yang; Arp/Rodin; \(2\) | Bonhams | $160
11. 2023-02-07 | Arthur Okamura \(1932\-2009\) Paradise Lost \(a group of three\) first sight 23 1/4 x 19 in.; second sight 22 x 16 3/4 in.; third sight 24 x 19 in. \(first and third framed 31 x 26 in.; second framed 29 x 23 1/2 in.\) | Bonhams | $150
12. 2023-02-07 | Arthur Okamura \(1932\-2009\) Untitled \(Bird\) sight 19 1/2 x 16 3/4 in. \(framed 26 1/2 x 24 3/4 in. \) | Bonhams | $250
13. 2023-02-07 | Arthur Okamura \(1932\-2009\) Still Life with Vase, Nude, Houses, and San Francisco Bay Bridge \(a group of four\) sight 10 x 8 in.; sight 10 1/4 x 8 3/4 in.; sheet 7 1/2 x 6 1/2 in.; 14 1/2 x 14 in., respectively \(framed 13 3/4 x 11 3/4 in.; 16 1/2 x... | Bonhams | $650
14. 2023-02-07 | Arthur Okamura \(1932\-2009\) Hive and Bees, The Wolf, and Horse Landscape \(a group of three\) Hive 7 x 7 in.; Wolf and Horse sight 24 x 18 in. \(framed Hive 16 1/2 x 12 1/2 in.; Wolf 31 1/2 x 24 1/2 in.; Horse 31 x 26 1/4 in. \) | Bonhams | $800
15. 2023-02-07 | Arthur Okamura \(1932\-2009\) Head Pulse and Tanya in Quilt \(a group of two\) first 13 1/4 x 11 1/4 in.; second sight 25 x 19 in. \(first framed 14 x 12 in.; second framed 33 1/2 x 27 1/4 in. \) | Bonhams | $950
16. 2023-02-07 | Arthur Okamura \(1932\-2009\) Night Bloom \(Diptych\) 13 1/8 x 26 3/8 in. \(unframed\) | Bonhams | $1,000
17. 2023-02-07 | Arthur Okamura \(1932\-2009\) Landscape sight 19 x 24 in. \(framed 25 1/4 x 30 1/4 in.\) | Bonhams | $550
18. 2023-02-07 | Arthur Okamura \(1932\-2009\) Woods on Slope sight 18 x 24 in. \(framed 25 x 31 1/2 in.\) | Bonhams | $800
19. 2023-02-07 | Arthur Okamura \(1932\-2009\) Yellow Moon 12 x 15 in. \(framed 17 1/4 x 20 1/4 in.\) | Bonhams | $700 | source: https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot-arthur-okamura-1932-2009-yellow-moon-12-x-15-in-framed-17-1-4-x-20-1-4-in-214-c-5494b8e91d
20. 2023-02-07 | Arthur Okamura \(1932\-2009\) Sea Nymph and Untitled \(a group of two\) first sight 24 x 19 in.; second sight 24 x 18 in. \(first framed 30 3/4 x 25 3/4 in.; second framed 30 3/4 x 24 3/4 in. \) | Bonhams | $600
21. 2023-02-07 | Arthur Okamura \(1932\-2009\) Bird in a Cage 26 x 19 in. \(framed 27 1/2 x 20 1/2 in. \) | Bonhams | $550
22. 2023-02-07 | Arthur Okamura \(1932\-2009\) Caged Butterfly 18 x 14 1/2 in. \(framed 19 1/2 x 15 1/4 in.\) | Bonhams | $200
23. 2023-02-07 | Arthur Okamura \(1932\-2009\) Ornamented Skull sheet 25 1/2 x 19 3/4 in. \(framed 30 1/2 x 26 1/2 in.\) | Bonhams | $200
24. 2023-02-07 | Arthur Okamura \(1932\-2009\) Fall Scene 16 x 12 in. \(unframed\) | Bonhams | $280

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