# David Diao - Auction Profile

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Updated: 2026-04-28T21:55:49.258Z

## Summary
- Lots tracked: 28
- Lots with prices: 20
- First auction date: 2005-07-12
- Latest auction date: 2025-11-20
- Median realised price: $10,710
- Price range: $210 to $1,250,000

## Market Takeaway
David Diao has 28 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $10,710. 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 \($10,710\) as a typical result and the typical low/high band \($1,200 to $32,500\) 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: 20% (4 sales)
- $1,000 to $10,000: 25% (5 sales)
- $10,000\+: 55% (11 sales)

## Recent Trend & Velocity
- Last 12 months sales: 1
- Previous 12 months sales: 2
- Recent 12 months median: $98,350
- Previous 12 months median: $32,500
- Median shift: 100%
- Latest sale date: 2025-11-20
- Days since latest sale: 159
- Market velocity: steady

## Top Auction Houses
- Christie's: 12 lots
- A. H. Wilkens Auctions & Appraisals: 3 lots
- RoGallery: 3 lots
- Weiss Auctions: 2 lots
- Dirk Soulis Auctions: 1 lots
- Phillips: 1 lots
- Rachel Davis Fine Arts: 1 lots
- Rago Arts and Auction Center: 1 lots
- Sotheby's: 1 lots
- Veilinghuis Van Spengen: 1 lots

## Top Categories
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## Recent Sold Lots
1. 2025-11-20 | David Diao \(b. 1943\), BOXCAR, 1969 | Waddington's | CA$98,350 | source: https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot-david-diao-b-1943-boxcar-1969-351-c-59dda1b080
2. 2025-02-25 | David Diao \(1943\-\) New York Ten, gesigneerd in pot… | Veilinghuis Van Spengen | N/A
3. 2024-10-19 | David Diao \(American, 1943\- \) acrylic | Rachel Davis Fine Arts | $32,500
4. 2024-03-13 | David Diao, Untitled | Rago Arts and Auction Center | $30,000
5. 2023-03-14 | DAVID DIAO \(B. 1943\) Untitled \#22 The Little Suprematist Prisons acrylic on | Christie's | $10,710
6. 2023-03-14 | DAVID DIAO \(B. 1943\) Untitled \#26, The Little Suprematist Prisons acrylic o | Christie's | $44,100
7. 2022-07-20 | DAVID DIAO \(b. 1943\) Untitled \#3, The Little Suprematist Prisons acrylic o | Christie's | $16,380
8. 2022-07-20 | DAVID DIAO \(b. 1943\) Untitled \#4, The Little Suprematist Prisons acrylic o | Christie's | $15,120
9. 2022-04-06 | David Diao, Monotype Woodcut Lithograph | Weiss Auctions | $260
10. 2021-12-15 | DAVID DIAO \(b. 1943\) Untitled \#8, The Little Suprematist Prisons acrylic o | Christie's | $7,500
11. 2021-10-07 | David Diao, Monochromatic Color Screen Print | Weiss Auctions | $210
12. 2020-11-19 | David Diao, Untitled, Scrrenprint | RoGallery | N/A
13. 2020-11-12 | DAVID DIAO SERIGRAPH | Westport Auction | $225
14. 2019-11-20 | David Diao, Minimalist Abstract Screenprint | RoGallery | N/A
15. 2019-05-25 | DAVID DIAO \(DIAO DEQIAN, USA/CHINA, B. 1943\) Twin Dragons acrylic and silkscreen on canvas, triptych 183 x 122 cm. \(72 x 48 in.\); 183 x 152 cm. \(72 x 60 in.\); & 183 x 123 cm. \(72 x 48 in.\) overall: 183 x 397 cm. \(72 x 156 1/4 in.\) \(3\) | Christie's | HK$1,250,000
16. 2019-04-01 | DAVID DIAO \| Open: Surrender \+ Mourn | Sotheby's | HK$180,000
17. 2018-07-17 | David Diao, Barnett Newman: Paintings Chronology, Set of 4 Silkscreens | RoGallery | N/A
18. 2018-05-27 | DAVID DIAO \(DIAO DEQIAN, USA/CHINA, B. 1943\) \- Untitled | Christie's | N/A
19. 2018-03-29 | DAVID DIAO \(DIAO DEQIAN, USA/CHINA, B.1943\) \- Little Suprematist Prison \#24 | Christie's | HK$118,750
20. 2017-04-18 | DAVID DIAO \- Barnett Newman: The Paintings Red, Yellow, and Blue, 1992 | Phillips | N/A
21. 2016-04-30 | DAVID DIAO \(B. 1943\) ABSTRACT ACRYLIC CANVAS 7 X 8 FEET | Dirk Soulis Auctions | $23,000
22. 2015-06-10 | David DIAO \(Diao Deqian, Chinese/Amer.1943 \) | A. H. Wilkens Auctions & Appraisals | CA$1,200
23. 2014-06-10 | DAVID DIAO \(Chinese/American, b. 1943 \) | A. H. Wilkens Auctions & Appraisals | CA$585
24. 2013-11-26 | David Diao \(China 1943 \- \) | A. H. Wilkens Auctions & Appraisals | N/A

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