# Charles Wirgman - Auction Profile

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Updated: 2026-04-28T19:29:27.209Z

## Summary
- Lots tracked: 18
- Lots with prices: 13
- First auction date: 2002-09-26
- Latest auction date: 2025-08-30
- Median realised price: $2,500
- Price range: $200 to $18,900

## Market Takeaway
Charles Wirgman has 18 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $2,500. Category concentration is still broad. Last 12 months recorded 1 sales. These metrics reflect recorded public auction results and may not include private transactions or every premium outlier sale.

## How To Read This Data
- Use median \($2,500\) as a typical result and the typical low/high band \($1,000 to $7,084\) as the middle 50% of recorded sales.
- Auction prices can include buyer premiums or fees depending on house reporting, so compare on a like\-for\-like basis.
- Condition, provenance, size, and attribution confidence can move final value materially versus median comps.

## Price Bands
- Under $1,000: 23.1% (3 sales)
- $1,000 to $10,000: 61.5% (8 sales)
- $10,000\+: 15.4% (2 sales)

## Recent Trend & Velocity
- Last 12 months sales: 1
- Previous 12 months sales: 1
- Recent 12 months median: $6,000
- Previous 12 months median: $18,900
- Median shift: 0%
- Latest sale date: 2025-08-30
- Days since latest sale: 241
- Market velocity: steady

## Top Auction Houses
- Christie's: 7 lots
- Heritage Auctions: 4 lots
- Bonhams: 2 lots
- Auktionshaus Mehlis GmbH: 1 lots
- Balclis: 1 lots
- Bassenge Auctions: 1 lots
- Leon Gallery: 1 lots
- Leonard Joel: 1 lots

## Top Categories
- N/A

## Recent Sold Lots
1. 2025-08-30 | Charles Wirgman, Fischer vor der Kulisse des Berges Fuji | Auktionshaus Mehlis GmbH | €6,000 | source: https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot-charles-wirgman-fischer-vor-der-kulisse-des-berges-fuji-4397-c-ad44994b93
2. 2020-12-02 | Japan: Early album of types and scenes of Japanese life | Bassenge Auctions | €6,000
3. 2024-07-03 | CHARLES WIRGMAN \(LONDON 1832\-1891 YOKOHAMA, JAPAN\). Far East: A street in M | Christie's | £18,900
4. 2022-05-10 | CHARLES WIRGMAN \(BRITISH, 1832\-1891\) 'Forest Scene' | Bonhams | £650
5. 2022-01-28 | Charles Wirgman \(1832 \- 1891\) a\) Market Women of Manilla b\) Shoemaker’s Shop in Manila | Leon Gallery | ₱17,520
6. 2020-11-05 | Charles Wirgman \(1832\-1891\) A Japanese woman on a balcony; and An int | Christie's | £1,000
7. 2019-03-10 | CHARLES WIRGMAN \(BRITISH, 1832\-1891\) A JAPANESE SHRINE WATERCOLOR ON PAPER 11 X | Heritage Auctions | $200
8. 2019-03-10 | CHARLES WIRGMAN \(BRITISH, 1832\-1891\) A JAPANESE MERCHANT WATERCOLOR ON PAPER 7\-3 | Heritage Auctions | $200
9. 2018-09-21 | CHARLES WIRGMAN \(BRITISH, 1832\-1891\) A JAPANESE MERCHANT WATERCOLOR ON PAPER 7\-3 | Heritage Auctions | N/A
10. 2018-09-21 | CHARLES WIRGMAN \(BRITISH, 1832\-1891\) A JAPANESE SHRINE WATERCOLOR ON PAPER 11 X | Heritage Auctions | N/A
11. 2017-11-28 | CHARLES WIRGMAN \(English, 1832\-1891\) \(Japanese Family Eating\) 1863 watercolour | Leonard Joel | A$1,400
12. 2014-10-08 | Very high official not allowed to uncover his face in public; Japanese tattooing taken from life; Showing the way the big sword is used; and Dai... on horseback with groom running | Christie's | N/A
13. 2012-11-07 | Charles Wirgman \(1832\-1891\) | Christie's | N/A
14. 2010-09-23 | Charles Wirgman \(1832\-1891\) | Christie's | £2,500
15. 2009-10-22 | Charles Wirgman \(London, 1832\-1891\) Vista de Wada | Balclis | N/A
16. 2006-07-13 | Charles Wirgman \(1832\-1891\) | Christie's | £1,200
17. 2006-05-09 | Charles Wirgman \(British, 1832\-1891\) | Bonhams | £7,800
18. 2002-09-26 | Charles Wirgman \(1832\-1891\) | Christie's | $7,084

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