# Kazuya Sakai - Auction Profile

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Updated: 2026-05-01T10:37:24.843Z

## Summary
- Lots tracked: 80
- Lots with prices: 55
- First auction date: 2002-11-19
- Latest auction date: 2025-10-17
- Median realised price: $10,000
- Price range: $1,800 to $107,100

## Market Takeaway
Kazuya Sakai shows solid auction liquidity with 80 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $10,000. Category concentration is still broad or sparse. Last 12 months recorded 4 sales. Latest recorded sale: 2025-10-17.

## How To Read This Data
- Use the median \($10,000\) as a typical result; many comparable sales cluster between $7,000 and $18,900.
- Auction totals can include buyer premiums or fees depending on reporting, so compare like\-for\-like when possible.
- Condition, size, medium, provenance, and attribution confidence can move value materially versus median comps.

## Price Bands
- Under $1,000: 0% (0 sales)
- $1,000 to $10,000: 43.6% (24 sales)
- $10,000\+: 56.4% (31 sales)

## Recent Trend & Velocity
- Last 12 months sales: 4
- Previous 12 months sales: 4
- Recent 12 months median: $10,000
- Previous 12 months median: $7,500
- Median shift: 33.3%
- Latest sale date: 2025-10-17
- Days since latest sale: 124
- Market velocity: steady

## Top Auction Houses
- Christie's: 27 lots
- Morton Subastas: 24 lots
- Art\-Torg: 7 lots
- Sotheby's: 6 lots
- Heritage Auctions: 3 lots
- Rago Arts and Auction Center: 2 lots
- Swann Auction Galleries: 2 lots
- Auctionata US: 1 lots
- Capo Auction: 1 lots
- Doyle New York: 1 lots

## Top Categories
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## Recent Sold Lots
1. 2025-10-17 | Kazuya Sakai \(1927\-2001\) Japanese \- American \- Argentinian | Art\-Torg | N/A
2. 2025-09-30 | KAZUYA SAKAI \(1927\-2001\). Atmosphères III/Gyorgy Ligeti. acrylic on canvas4 | Christie's | $48,260
3. 2025-02-21 | Kazuya Sakai \(1927\-2001\) Japanese \- American \- Argentinian | Art\-Torg | €10,000
4. 2025-02-21 | Kazuya Sakai \(1927\-2001\) Japanese \- American \- Argentinian | Art\-Torg | €2,300
5. 2024-11-12 | KAZUYA SAKAI \(1927 \- 2001, ARGENTINE/AMERICAN\) Miles Davis Bitches Brew \(I\). | Swann Auction Galleries | $25,000
6. 2024-10-18 | Kazuya Sakai \(1927\-2001\) Japanese \- American \- Argentinian | Art\-Torg | $7,500
7. 2024-10-08 | KAZUYA SAKAI \(1927\-2001\). Untitled. oil on canvas 43 3⁄8 x 39 ½ in. \(110.2 | Christie's | $18,900
8. 2024-08-16 | Kazuya Sakai \(1927\-2001\) Argentinian, Japaneese, American | Art\-Torg | $2,000
9. 2023-12-08 | Kazuya Sakai \(1927\-2001\) Argentinian, Japaneese, American | Art\-Torg | N/A
10. 2023-05-25 | KAZUYA SAKAI \(1927 \- 2001, ARGENTINE \) Neither Wind nor Banner. | Swann Auction Galleries | $16,250
11. 2023-04-07 | Kazuya Sakai \(1927\-2001\) Argentinian, Japaneese, American | Art\-Torg | N/A
12. 2022-09-30 | Kazuya Sakai \(1927\-2001\) The Sky of Texas acrylic on shaped canvas Height: | Christie's | $107,100
13. 2022-07-28 | Kazuya Sakai \(Argentine, 1927\-2001\) Natasha, 1968 | Hindman | $20,000
14. 2022-05-15 | Kazuya Sakai, Itinerarios | PAAP Auctions | N/A
15. 2021-05-19 | Kazuya Sakai \(1927\-2001\) \- The Sky of Texas | Christie's | N/A
16. 2020-11-18 | Kazuya Sakai \(1927\-2001\) \- Genroku No. 15 | Christie's | $9,375
17. 2019-12-11 | Kazuya Sakai \(1927\-2001\), Kamakura , Work Nº 23 , 1954, huile sur toile, signée, titrée et datée au verso, 70x100 cm | Piguet Hôtel des Ventes \| Genève | CHF 9,000
18. 2019-05-17 | KAZUYA SAKAI \| Variaciones sobre el rombo IV / End of the Night  | Sotheby's | $30,000
19. 2018-11-21 | Kazuya Sakai \(1927\-2001\) \- Vientos atravesados | Christie's | $62,500
20. 2018-10-18 | KAZUYA SAKAI, Sin título, 1972, Firmada y fechada 71, Serigrafía 3 / 5, 79 x 54 cm | Morton Subastas | MX$10,000
21. 2018-09-29 | Kazuya Sakai \(Buenos Aires, 1927 \- Dallas, Estados Unidos, 2001\) Chromatology II. Serigrafía sobre papel algodón, P/A. Firmada y f 1978 | Morton Subastas | MX$7,000
22. 2018-09-28 | KAZUYA SAKAI \(B. 1927\) \| E\-Cars \(Ornette Coleman\), 1967 | Sotheby's | $7,000
23. 2018-09-20 | KAZUYA SAKAI, Untitled, Signed and with monogram, Ink on paper, 35.5 x 24.5 cm / 13.9 x 9.6 inches. | Morton Subastas | N/A
24. 2018-09-20 | KAZUYA SAKAI, Untitled, Signed and dated 71, Acrylic on cardboard, 94 x 76 cm / 37 x 29.9 inches. | Morton Subastas | N/A

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