# Ikko Tanaka - Auction Profile

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Updated: 2026-05-16T00:10:54.291Z

## Summary
- Lots tracked: 15
- Lots with prices: 12
- First auction date: 2017-03-12
- Latest auction date: 2025-10-09
- Median realised price: $1,100
- Price range: $300 to $3,250

## Market Takeaway
Ikko Tanaka has 15 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $1,100. Category concentration is still broad. Last 12 months recorded 4 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 \($1,100\) as a typical result and the typical low/high band \($487 to $1,500\) 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: 41.7% (5 sales)
- $1,000 to $10,000: 58.3% (7 sales)
- $10,000\+: 0% (0 sales)

## Recent Trend & Velocity
- Last 12 months sales: 4
- Previous 12 months sales: 3
- Recent 12 months median: $450
- Previous 12 months median: $1,100
- Median shift: 0%
- Latest sale date: 2025-10-09
- Days since latest sale: 214
- Market velocity: steady

## Top Auction Houses
- Bernaerts Auctioneers: 5 lots
- Swann Auction Galleries: 5 lots
- Poster Auctions International Inc: 3 lots
- RoGallery: 1 lots
- STAIR: 1 lots

## Top Categories
- N/A

## Recent Sold Lots
1. 2025-10-09 | IKKO TANAKA \(1930\-2002\) | Bernaerts Auctioneers | €450
2. 2025-09-30 | Ikko Tanaka, Ikko Tanaka Affichiste vintage poster | Poster Auctions International Inc | $500
3. 2025-06-19 | IKKO TANAKA \(1930\-2002\) | Bernaerts Auctioneers | €700
4. 2025-06-19 | IKKO TANAKA \(1930\-2002\) | Bernaerts Auctioneers | €300
5. 2024-11-12 | Ikko Tanaka, UCLA Asian Performing Arts Institute / Nihon Buyo | Poster Auctions International Inc | $1,100
6. 2024-10-11 | IKKO TANAKA \(1930\-2002\) | Bernaerts Auctioneers | N/A
7. 2024-10-11 | IKKO TANAKA \(1930\-2002\) | Bernaerts Auctioneers | N/A
8. 2023-08-03 | IKKO TANAKA \(1930\-2002\). NIHON BUYO / UCLA ASIAN PERFORMING ARTS INSTITUTE. 1981. 40½x28½ inches, 103x72½ cm. Toppan Printing Co., Ltd | Swann Auction Galleries | $1,500 | source: https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot-ikko-tanaka-1930-2002-nihon-buyo-ucla-asian-performing-arts-institute-1981-401-2x281-2-inches-103x721-2-cm-toppan-printing-co-ltd-364-c-c74401d92b
9. 2023-05-18 | IKKO TANAKA \(1930\-2002\). NIHON BUYO / UCLA ASIAN PERFORMING ARTS INSTITUTE. 1981. 40½x28½ inches, 103x72½ cm. Toppan Printing Co., Ltd | Swann Auction Galleries | $3,250 | source: https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot-ikko-tanaka-1930-2002-nihon-buyo-ucla-asian-performing-arts-institute-1981-401-2x281-2-inches-103x721-2-cm-toppan-printing-co-ltd-242-c-b2c410195a
10. 2022-05-19 | IKKO TANAKA \(1930\-2002\). NIHON BUYO / UCLA ASIAN PERFORMING ARTS INSTITUTE. 1981. 40½x28½ inches, 103x72½ cm. Toppan Printing Co., Ltd | Swann Auction Galleries | $1,430 | source: https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot-ikko-tanaka-1930-2002-nihon-buyo-ucla-asian-performing-arts-institute-1981-401-2x281-2-inches-103x721-2-cm-toppan-printing-co-ltd-230-c-a13492798c
11. 2019-06-08 | Ikko Tanaka \(1930\-2002\): Ropes; Lake; Field; Sky; City; Forest; and Road | STAIR | $1,600
12. 2017-08-10 | Ikko Tanaka, Nihon Buyo for UCLA, Lithograph Poster | RoGallery | N/A
13. 2017-05-25 | IKKO TANAKA \(1930\-2002\). \[GGG / JAPANESE EXHIBITIONS.\] Group of 4 posters. Circa 1990s\-2000s. Sizes vary, each approximately 40x28 inch | Swann Auction Galleries | $487
14. 2017-05-25 | IKKO TANAKA \(1930\-2002\). NIHON BUYO / UCLA ASIAN PERFORMING ARTS INSTITUTE. 1981. 40x28 inches, 103x72 cm. Toppan Printing Co., Ltd., T | Swann Auction Galleries | $2,000 | source: https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot-ikko-tanaka-1930-2002-nihon-buyo-ucla-asian-performing-arts-institute-1981-40x28-inches-103x72-cm-toppan-printing-co-ltd-t-292-c-05940b1bd7
15. 2017-03-12 | Japan. | Poster Auctions International Inc | $1,400

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