# Inoue Yuichi - Auction Profile

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Updated: 2026-05-26T08:04:17.607Z

## Summary
- Lots tracked: 20
- Lots with prices: 19
- First auction date: 2015-10-05
- Latest auction date: 2025-09-16
- Median realised price: $325,000
- Price range: $75,600 to $3,200,000

## Market Takeaway
Inoue Yuichi has 20 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $325,000. 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 \($325,000\) as a typical result and the typical low/high band \($125,000 to $900,000\) 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: 0% (0 sales)
- $1,000 to $10,000: 0% (0 sales)
- $10,000\+: 100% (19 sales)

## Recent Trend & Velocity
- Last 12 months sales: 1
- Previous 12 months sales: 2
- Recent 12 months median: $101,600
- Previous 12 months median: $75,600
- Median shift: 34.4%
- Latest sale date: 2025-09-16
- Days since latest sale: 251
- Market velocity: steady

## Top Auction Houses
- Sotheby's: 9 lots
- Christie's: 5 lots
- New Art Est\-Ouest Auctions: 4 lots
- SBI Art Auction Co., Ltd.: 2 lots

## Top Categories
- N/A

## Recent Sold Lots
1. 2025-09-16 | INOUE YUICHI \(1916\-1985\). Shoku \(To belong to, to pay attention to\), 1976. | Christie's | $101,600
2. 2025-03-18 | INOUE YUICHI \(1916\-1985\). Ryu \(dragon\). Framed; ink on paper48 x 66 ½ in. \( | Christie's | $138,600
3. 2023-11-25 | NAMUMYOHORENGEKYO by INOUE Yuichi | New Art Est\-Ouest Auctions | ¥480,000
4. 2023-11-25 | NARUKAMINO by INOUE Yuichi | New Art Est\-Ouest Auctions | ¥900,000
5. 2023-07-30 | HIN | New Art Est\-Ouest Auctions | ¥3,200,000
6. 2023-03-21 | INOUE YUICHI \(1916\-1985\) Tori \(Bird\) Framed; ink on paper 47 7/8 x 84 7/8 i | Christie's | $132,300
7. 2023-03-04 | HIN | New Art Est\-Ouest Auctions | N/A
8. 2021-03-16 | INOUE YUICHI \(1916\-1985\) Tsuki \(Moon\) Hanging scroll; ink on paper 70 ½ x 4 | Christie's | $81,250
9. 2019-04-01 | INOUE YUICHI \| Flower | Sotheby's | HK$110,000
10. 2017-12-08 | INOUE YUICHI \(YUI\-CHI\) \| Fortune | Sotheby's | HK$125,000
11. 2017-10-01 | INOUE YUICHI \(YU\-ICHI\) \| Hana \- Flower | Sotheby's | HK$237,500
12. 2017-07-15 | INOUE Yuichi \- En | SBI Art Auction Co., Ltd. | ¥2,415,000
13. 2016-11-05 | INOUE Yuichi \- TO | SBI Art Auction Co., Ltd. | ¥2,760,000
14. 2016-04-04 | INOUE YUICHI \(YU\-ICHI\) \| Kawa \(River\) | Sotheby's | HK$320,000
15. 2024-09-17 | INOUE YUICHI \(1916\-1985\). Katsu \(Shout\). Ink on paper; framed 47 ¼ x 74 ¾ i | Christie's | $75,600
16. 2016-10-03 | INOUE YUICHI \(YU\-ICHI\) \| Hana \(Flower\) | Sotheby's | HK$562,500
17. 2016-10-03 | INOUE YUICHI \(YU\-ICHI\) \| Sei | Sotheby's | HK$325,000
18. 2016-04-03 | INOUE YUICHI \(YU\-ICHI\) \| Ko \(Fragrance\) | Sotheby's | HK$700,000
19. 2015-10-05 | INOUE YUICHI \(YU\-ICHI\) \| Moon \(Tsuki\) | Sotheby's | HK$437,500
20. 2015-10-05 | INOUE YUICHI \(YU\-ICHI\) \| Dream \(Yume\) | Sotheby's | HK$937,500

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