# Hiro - Auction Profile

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Updated: 2026-05-01T09:05:42.097Z

## Summary
- Lots tracked: 28
- Lots with prices: 16
- First auction date: 2002-10-21
- Latest auction date: 2024-09-18
- Median realised price: $2,375
- Price range: $150 to $11,400

## Market Takeaway
Hiro has 28 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $2,375. Category concentration is still broad. Recent 12-month volume is still light. 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 \($2,375\) as a typical result and the typical low/high band \($800 to $5,400\) 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: 25% (4 sales)
- $1,000 to $10,000: 62.5% (10 sales)
- $10,000\+: 12.5% (2 sales)

## Recent Trend & Velocity
- Last 12 months sales: 0
- Previous 12 months sales: 3
- Recent 12 months median: $0
- Previous 12 months median: $1,500
- Median shift: 0%
- Latest sale date: 2024-09-18
- Days since latest sale: 589
- Market velocity: inactive

## Top Auction Houses
- Christie's: 7 lots
- Capsule Gallery Auction: 4 lots
- Heritage Auctions: 4 lots
- DOYLE Auctioneers & Appraisers: 2 lots
- Swann Auction Galleries: 2 lots
- Dirk Soulis Auctions: 1 lots
- Finarte: 1 lots
- Grisebach: 1 lots
- Leitz Photographica Auction: 1 lots
- Phillips: 1 lots

## Top Categories
- N/A

## Recent Sold Lots
1. 2017-11-21 | HIRO \(POSSIBLY HIRO YAMAGATA\) \(JAPANESE, B. 1948\) CITY DOCK Oil on canvas: 21 x 14 in. | Potomack Company | $150
2. 2024-09-18 | HIRO \(YASUHIRO WAKABAYASHI\) \- PORTRAIT OF GEOFFREY BEENE, GROUP OF 3 | Capsule Gallery Auction | N/A
3. 2024-07-23 | HIRO \(YASUHIRO WAKABAYASHI\) \- PORTRAIT OF GEOFFREY BEENE, GROUP OF 3 | Capsule Gallery Auction | N/A
4. 2024-06-07 | HIRO \(1930\-2021\) PENCIL SIGNED PHOTOGRAPH. EX\-AVEDON | Dirk Soulis Auctions | $1,500
5. 2024-01-30 | HIRO \(YASUHIRO WAKABAYASHI\) \- PORTRAIT OF GEOFFREY BEENE, GROUP OF 3 | Capsule Gallery Auction | N/A
6. 2023-02-23 | HIRO \(YASUHIRO WAKABAYASHI\) \(1930\-2021\) Suspicious Child. | Swann Auction Galleries | $2,375
7. 2022-12-07 | HIRO \(Yasuhiro Wakabayashi\) Archive of including a large format portrait of Martha Graham, candid photographs, and signed books... | DOYLE Auctioneers & Appraisers | N/A
8. 2022-11-26 | HIRO \(1930–2021\) 'THE KISS', NEW YORK 1968 | Leitz Photographica Auction | €3,000
9. 2022-05-24 | HIRO \(YASUHIRO WAKABAYASHI\) \(1930\-2021\) Betta Splendens, New York, 1981 si | Christie's | €10,080
10. 2022-05-24 | HIRO \(YASUHIRO WAKABAYASHI\) \(1930\-2021\) Maria Beadeux, New York, 1974 sign | Christie's | €8,820
11. 2022-05-24 | HIRO \(YASUHIRO WAKABAYASHI\) \(1930\-2021\) Akiko on the Black Lava of Hawaii, | Christie's | N/A
12. 2022-04-05 | HIRO \(B. 1930\) Popping Pills, N.Y., 1972 signed and numbered 9/16' in penci | Christie's | $5,040
13. 2022-03-17 | Hiro \(1930\-2021\) \- Brothers, Montego Bay, Jamaica, 1967 | Finarte | €800
14. 2021-12-21 | HIRO \(NÉE EN 1930\-2021\) | Pierre Bergé & Associés | €5,000
15. 2021-05-02 | Hiro \(1930 \- \), Wristwatch, 1986. | Psaroni Auction Gallery | N/A
16. 2019-06-13 | Hiro \(Yasuhiro Wakabayashi\) \- APOLLO \- 11, 9:32 A. M. 7\-16\-69 MAIDEN VOYAGE TO THE MOON | Capsule Gallery Auction | $9,750
17. 2018-10-04 | HIRO \- Robert Penn Warren, poet, fairfield, CT, 10\-13\-78, 1978 | Phillips | N/A
18. 2017-05-25 | HIRO \(Yasuhiro Wakabayashi\) Portrait of Aileen Mehle. New York: 1967. Black and white photographic portrait of Aileen Mehle... | DOYLE Auctioneers & Appraisers | $437
19. 2012-05-30 | Hiro \(d.i. Wakabayashi, Yasuhiro\) MARTHA GRAHAM, NEW YORK CITY, JANUARY 14 | Grisebach | N/A
20. 2010-06-09 | HIRO \(American, b. 1930\) Sean Penn, Actor, New York, 3\- | Heritage Auctions | $300
21. 2010-06-09 | HIRO \(American, b. 1930\) Barbara Carrera in Brigance, E | Heritage Auctions | $2,000
22. 2010-06-09 | Hiro \- Sean Penn, Actor, New York, 3\-28\-83 | Heritage Auctions | N/A
23. 2010-06-09 | Hiro \- Barbara Carrera in Brigance, East Hampton, New York | Heritage Auctions | N/A
24. 2009-05-19 | Hiro \(b.1930\) , Harry Winston necklace, New York, 1963 | Sotheby's | N/A

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