# Chiura Obata - Auction Profile

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Updated: 2026-05-15T19:01:03.055Z

## Summary
- Lots tracked: 63
- Lots with prices: 51
- First auction date: 2008-12-09
- Latest auction date: 2025-03-21
- Median realised price: $1,600
- Price range: $55 to $22,000

## Market Takeaway
Chiura Obata shows solid auction liquidity with 63 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $1,600. Category concentration is still broad or sparse. Last 12 months recorded 5 sales. Latest recorded sale: 2025-03-21.

## How To Read This Data
- Use the median \($1,600\) as a typical result; many comparable sales cluster between $600 and $6,000.
- 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: 35.3% (18 sales)
- $1,000 to $10,000: 54.9% (28 sales)
- $10,000\+: 9.8% (5 sales)

## Recent Trend & Velocity
- Last 12 months sales: 5
- Previous 12 months sales: 4
- Recent 12 months median: $3,000
- Previous 12 months median: $3,500
- Median shift: 0%
- Latest sale date: 2025-03-21
- Days since latest sale: 334
- Market velocity: steady

## Top Auction Houses
- Clars Auctions: 22 lots
- Bonhams: 13 lots
- Turner Auctions \+ Appraisals: 8 lots
- Sarasota Estate Auction: 2 lots
- Selkirk Auctioneers & Appraisers: 2 lots
- Witherell's: 2 lots
- Yair Art Gallery: 2 lots
- Antiques & Modern Auction Gallery: 1 lots
- Barridoff Auctions: 1 lots
- DOYLE Auctioneers & Appraisers: 1 lots

## Top Categories
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## Recent Sold Lots
1. 2025-03-21 | Chiura Obata \(1885\-1975\) \- Snow Scene | Clars Auctions | $550
2. 2025-03-21 | Chiura Obata \(1885\-1975\) \- Delta Scene | Clars Auctions | $1,000
3. 2025-03-21 | Chiura Obata \(1885\-1975\) \- Carmel Cypress | Clars Auctions | $3,000
4. 2025-03-20 | CHIURA OBATA \(1885\-1975\) Magnolias and Rapids Showa era \(1926\-1989\), 1935 | Bonhams | $6,500
5. 2025-03-20 | CHIURA OBATA \(1885\-1975\) Showa era \(1926\-1989\) | Bonhams | $6,000
6. 2024-08-24 | Chiura Obata \(1885\-1975\) American/Japanese, Color Woodcut | Sarasota Estate Auction | $3,500
7. 2024-08-16 | Chiura Obata \(1885\-1975\) \- Deer and Pine | Clars Auctions | $1,200
8. 2024-08-06 | Chiura Obata \(1885\-1975\) Evening Glow \- Bay Bridge sheet 20 3/4 x 15 5/8 in. framed 28 1/2 x 22 1/2 in. | Bonhams | $22,000
9. 2024-06-09 | Chiura Obata \(1885\-1975\) USA/Japan, Color Woodcut | Sarasota Estate Auction | $15,500
10. 2024-01-20 | Japanese woodblock Print Chiura Obata | Woodblock Prints World | $425
11. 2023-10-03 | Chiura Obata \(1885\-1975\); Silence, Last Twilight on an Unknown Lake, Johnson Peak; | Bonhams | $9,500
12. 2023-10-03 | Chiura Obata \(1885\-1975\); Great Nature, Storm on Mount Lyell from Johnson Peak; | Bonhams | $10,000
13. 2023-03-27 | Chiura Obata \(1885\-1975\), Hanging Scroll Painting Depicting Islets in a Foggy Sea | Bonhams | $6,500
14. 2023-02-25 | Chiura Obata \(1885\-1975\). | Turner Auctions \+ Appraisals | $400
15. 2023-02-25 | Chiura Obata \(1885\-1975\). | Turner Auctions \+ Appraisals | $3,050
16. 2022-10-29 | Chiura Obata, Country Road, Concord, 1930's | Devin Moisan Auctioneers, Inc. | $6,250
17. 2022-05-07 | CHIURA OBATA 'LAKE BASIN / HIGH SIERRA' LITHOGRAPH | Antiques & Modern Auction Gallery | N/A
18. 2022-02-11 | CHIURA OBATA \(JAPANESE/AMERICAN, 1885\-1975\) | Selkirk Auctioneers & Appraisers | $1,100
19. 2021-11-21 | Chiura Obata \(1885\-1975\) \- Matsushima at Dawn | Clars Auctions | $8,000
20. 2021-08-20 | CHIURA OBATA \(JAPANESE, 1885\-1975\) | Selkirk Auctioneers & Appraisers | $4,500
21. 2020-12-12 | Chiura Obata \(1885 \- 1975\) Watercolor On Paper | EJ'S Auction & Appraisal | $55
22. 2020-09-21 | Chiura Obata \(1885\-1975\) Lake Basin in High Sierra, Johnson Peak, USA | DOYLE Auctioneers & Appraisers | $3,750
23. 2020-01-25 | Chiura Obata \(1885 \- 1975\) | Turner Auctions \+ Appraisals | $500
24. 2019-10-19 | Chiura Obata \(1885 \- 1975\) | Turner Auctions \+ Appraisals | N/A

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