# Katsura Funakoshi - Auction Profile

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Updated: 2026-07-26T07:30:19.933Z

## Summary
- Lots tracked: 27
- Lots with prices: 22
- First auction date: 2009-01-30
- Latest auction date: 2025-11-08
- Median realised price: $100,000
- Price range: $475 to $950,000

## Market Takeaway
Katsura Funakoshi has 27 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $100,000. Category concentration is still broad. Last 12 months recorded 3 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 \($100,000\) as a typical result and the typical low/high band \($9,000 to $220,000\) 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: 9.1% (2 sales)
- $1,000 to $10,000: 18.2% (4 sales)
- $10,000\+: 72.7% (16 sales)

## Recent Trend & Velocity
- Last 12 months sales: 3
- Previous 12 months sales: 0
- Recent 12 months median: $76,200
- Previous 12 months median: $0
- Median shift: N/A
- Latest sale date: 2025-11-08
- Days since latest sale: 259
- Market velocity: steady

## Top Auction Houses
- Mallet Auction: 7 lots
- Christie's: 6 lots
- Sotheby's: 3 lots
- Van Ham Kunstauktionen: 2 lots
- Auctionata Paddle8 AG: 1 lots
- Bonhams: 1 lots
- Heritage Auctions: 1 lots
- Koller Auctions: 1 lots
- Larasati Auctioneers: 1 lots
- Phillips: 1 lots

## Top Categories
- N/A

## Recent Sold Lots
1. 2025-11-08 | DR1920 | Tozai New Art Co Ltd | ¥950,000
2. 2025-10-16 | KATSURA FUNAKOSHI \(1951\-2024\). Staying in the Water. painted camphor wood a | Christie's | £50,800
3. 2025-09-30 | KATSURA FUNAKOSHI \(1951\-2024\). Touching Snow With No Horn. painted camphor | Christie's | $76,200
4. 2024-06-01 | Katsura Funakoshi \(Japanese, 1951\- \) | Rachel Davis Fine Arts | $475
5. 2023-12-02 | 舟越桂 Katsura Funakoshi | Ravenel | N/A
6. 2023-09-29 | KATSURA FUNAKOSHI \(B. 1951\) The Rain Comes from the Moon painted camphor wo | Christie's | N/A
7. 2023-05-12 | KATSURA FUNAKOSHI \(B. 1951\) Map of Water painted camphor wood and marble 35 | Christie's | $126,000
8. 2023-03-02 | Had a Dream of the Bird | Mallet Auction | ¥220,000
9. 2022-06-09 | Katsura Funakoshi: Dream of the bird | Van Ham Kunstauktionen | €1,500
10. 2022-06-09 | Funakoshi Katsura: In the room with high ceiling | Van Ham Kunstauktionen | €600
11. 2021-10-07 | DR \#56 | Mallet Auction | ¥250,000
12. 2020-02-28 | Arlequin | Mallet Auction | ¥220,000
13. 2019-12-07 | KATSURA FUNAKOSHI | Koller Auctions | CHF 3,500
14. 2019-09-27 | Katsura Funakoshi, Work | Mallet Auction | ¥200,000
15. 2019-09-27 | Katsura Funakoshi, from 'Name of Winter' | Mallet Auction | ¥110,000
16. 2017-11-30 | KATSURA FUNAKOSHI \(B. 1951\) MIRROR REFLECTING FIGURES, 1989 CHARCOAL AND PENCIL | Heritage Auctions | $9,000
17. 2016-11-27 | Smell of Snow | Larasati Auctioneers | N/A
18. 2016-09-29 | Katsura Funakoshi, Water Sonata | Mallet Auction | ¥900,000
19. 2013-11-30 | Katsura Funakoshi, Large Sculpture 'Not Imagine Horns', 2007 | Auctionata Paddle8 AG | €100,000 | source: https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot-katsura-funakoshi-large-sculpture-not-imagine-horns-2007-61-c-387c65bafb
20. 2012-11-25 | KATSURA FUNAKOSHI \(Japanese, B. 1951\) | Christie's | HK$75,000
21. 2012-06-29 | KATSURA FUNAKOSHI | Phillips | N/A
22. 2012-05-27 | KATSURA FUNAKOSHI | Christie's | HK$75,000
23. 2011-12-08 | KATSURA FUNAKOSHI | Sotheby's | N/A
24. 2010-02-08 | Katsura Funakoshi \(Japanese, born 1951\) Drawing for Of Mountain, 1998 38 1/2 x 35 1/2in | Bonhams | $5,795

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