# Hap Sakwa - Auction Profile

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Updated: 2026-04-30T13:02:44.380Z

## Summary
- Lots tracked: 24
- Lots with prices: 22
- First auction date: 2015-04-18
- Latest auction date: 2025-11-04
- Median realised price: $250
- Price range: $50 to $2,000

## Market Takeaway
Hap Sakwa has 24 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $250. Category concentration is still broad. Last 12 months recorded 2 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 \($250\) as a typical result and the typical low/high band \($200 to $625\) 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: 95.5% (21 sales)
- $1,000 to $10,000: 4.5% (1 sales)
- $10,000\+: 0% (0 sales)

## Recent Trend & Velocity
- Last 12 months sales: 2
- Previous 12 months sales: 5
- Recent 12 months median: $450
- Previous 12 months median: $130
- Median shift: 100%
- Latest sale date: 2025-11-04
- Days since latest sale: 177
- Market velocity: steady

## Top Auction Houses
- Akiba Galleries: 2 lots
- Freeman's \| Hindman: 2 lots
- Sloans & Kenyon: 2 lots
- Ahlers & Ogletree Inc.: 1 lots
- Auctions at Showplace: 1 lots
- Bunte Auction Services: 1 lots
- Capsule Gallery Auction: 1 lots
- Christie's: 1 lots
- Clarke Auction Gallery: 1 lots
- Hill Auction Gallery: 1 lots

## Top Categories
- N/A

## Recent Sold Lots
1. 2025-11-04 | Hap Sakwa \(20th century, American\) Manzanita Wood Sculpture | Akiba Galleries | $450 | source: https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot-hap-sakwa-20th-century-american-manzanita-wood-sculpture-473-c-3d0fcdca95
2. 2025-10-22 | HAP SAKWA, 2 NATURAL EDGE TURNED WOOD BOWLS | Ahlers & Ogletree Inc. | $950
3. 2025-01-29 | Hap Sakwa b.1950 Pop Culture Mosaic Teapot SIGNED | Hill Auction Gallery | $500 | source: https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot-hap-sakwa-b-1950-pop-culture-mosaic-teapot-signed-165-c-8b448e1980
4. 2024-12-04 | HAP SAKWA \(Los Angeles, 1950\). Vase, Buckeye, Arizona, 1980s. Patinated walnut root. Serialized, issue 11/80. Signed, located and numbered on the base. | Setdart Auction House | €120
5. 2024-07-17 | Hap Sakwa, Torus | Rago Arts and Auction Center | $700
6. 2023-09-26 | Hap Sakwa \(American, 1950\) Manzanita Wood Weed Vase | Akiba Galleries | $225 | source: https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot-hap-sakwa-american-1950-manzanita-wood-weed-vase-113-c-5da4a2d829
7. 2024-08-08 | HAP SAKWA \(American, born 1950\). "Torus", Signed and dated 1987. Carved and paint\-glazed circular bowl. | Sloans & Kenyon | $130
8. 2024-06-27 | HAP SAKWA \(American, born 1950\). Turned buckeye deep circular asymmetrical bowl. Signed and dated 5/83". | Sloans & Kenyon | $130
9. 2023-02-28 | HAP SAKWA \- TRIBAL BEAT | Capsule Gallery Auction | $200
10. 2022-10-16 | Hap Sakwa \(American, b.1950\) Carved Ebony Bowl | Leonard Auction | N/A | source: https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot-hap-sakwa-american-b-1950-carved-ebony-bowl-185-c-a714d059c6
11. 2022-10-01 | HAP SAKWA \(AMERICAN, B. 1950\) | Selkirk Auctioneers & Appraisers | $600
12. 2022-08-24 | Hap Sakwa \(b. 1950\) turned wood bowls, two bowl: 11 1/2"w x 4"h | Toomey & Co. Auctioneers | $900
13. 2022-07-08 | Hap Sakwa Signed Manzanita Wood Sculpture | Keystone Auctions LLC | $225
14. 2021-12-05 | Hap Sakwa Signed Buckeye Burl Wood Vase | Auctions at Showplace | $700
15. 2021-03-07 | Hap Sakwa \(American Born 1950\) | Clarke Auction Gallery | $475
16. 2020-02-23 | \*HAP SAKWA ORIGINAL WOODEN SCULPTURE | Bunte Auction Services | $300
17. 2019-08-17 | Hap Sakwa \(B 1950\) large turned wood bowl. Ht. 7 in., Dia. 15 in. | Nadeau's Auction Gallery | $150
18. 2019-03-28 | Hap Sakwa \- Turned Bowl | Regency Auction House | $225
19. 2018-12-10 | HAP SAKWA \(AMERICAN B.1950\), BUD VASE, ISLA VISTA, CALIFORNIA,1982 | Freeman's \| Hindman | $625
20. 2018-11-16 | Hap Sakwa and Rude Osolnik knotted burl vases | Millea Bros Ltd | $250
21. 2018-07-11 | HAP SAKWA \(AMERICAN, 1950\), TORUS VESSEL, CIRCA 1987 | Freeman's \| Hindman | N/A
22. 2018-02-13 | HAP SAKWA \(B. 1950\) TWO VASES, CIRCA 1979 8 ½ in. \(21.6 cm.\) high, the larger | Christie's | $2,000
23. 2018-01-28 | 1982 Hap Sakwa turned wooden bowl | Merrill's Auctioneers & Appraisers | $200
24. 2015-04-18 | Hap Sakwa, American, b. 1950, TORUS, turn wood bowl, Height 6 3/4 inches, diameter 14 1/2 inches. | Link Auction Galleries | $50

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