# Kei Sato - Auction Profile

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Updated: 2026-05-01T10:32:29.780Z

## Summary
- Lots tracked: 44
- Lots with prices: 29
- First auction date: 2006-03-31
- Latest auction date: 2025-12-10
- Median realised price: $5,200
- Price range: $80 to $560,000

## Market Takeaway
Kei Sato has 44 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $5,200. 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 \($5,200\) as a typical result and the typical low/high band \($2,000 to $150,000\) 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: 20.7% (6 sales)
- $1,000 to $10,000: 41.4% (12 sales)
- $10,000\+: 37.9% (11 sales)

## Recent Trend & Velocity
- Last 12 months sales: 3
- Previous 12 months sales: 3
- Recent 12 months median: $2,800
- Previous 12 months median: $400
- Median shift: 100%
- Latest sale date: 2025-12-10
- Days since latest sale: 141
- Market velocity: steady

## Top Auction Houses
- Mallet Auction: 10 lots
- HVMC \- Hôtel des Ventes de Monte\-Carlo: 5 lots
- Aguttes: 3 lots
- Boisgirard\-Antonini: 3 lots
- Collin du Bocage: 3 lots
- Rago Arts and Auction Center: 3 lots
- Sotheby's: 3 lots
- Leonard Joel: 2 lots
- Tajan: 2 lots
- AUCTIONeVENTE SAS: 1 lots

## Top Categories
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## Recent Sold Lots
1. 2025-12-10 | Key Sato, Transpere | Rago Arts and Auction Center | $2,800
2. 2025-11-19 | Key SATO \(1906\-1978\) Sans titre, 1977 Gouache sur papier, signée et datée en bas à droite | Aguttes | €1,100
3. 2025-05-15 | Tide | Mallet Auction | ¥500,000
4. 2024-11-27 | Key SATO \(1906\-1978\) | HVMC \- Hôtel des Ventes de Monte\-Carlo | €220
5. 2024-07-10 | KEY SATO \(1906\-1978\) Sans titre, 1971 | HVMC \- Hôtel des Ventes de Monte\-Carlo | €6,000
6. 2024-06-19 | Key SATO \(1906\-1978\) | HVMC \- Hôtel des Ventes de Monte\-Carlo | €400
7. 2024-03-27 | Key Sato, Lumiere brisee | Rago Arts and Auction Center | $3,500
8. 2023-11-22 | KEY SATO \(1906\-1978\) Etang chaud \(bleu\), 1975 | Aguttes | €4,000
9. 2023-05-25 | Key Sato \(1906\-1978\) | Cheffins | N/A
10. 2022-08-08 | KEI SATO \(JAPANESE, 1906\-1978\) Untitled | Gibson's | N/A
11. 2022-05-01 | KEY SATO \(1906\-1978\) \- The international | Cornette de Saint\-Cyr\-Bruxelles | N/A
12. 2021-05-19 | Key Sato, Une preuve du temps | Rago Arts and Auction Center | $9,000
13. 2020-11-25 | KEY SATO \(1906\-1978\) PRISME DE LA TERRE, 1962 | Tajan | €13,000
14. 2020-06-18 | Work | Mallet Auction | N/A
15. 2020-02-28 | Work | Mallet Auction | ¥560,000
16. 2019-05-22 | Key Sato \(1906\-1978\) L'espace doublé, 1969 Oil on canvas Signed and dated lower right Signed, dated and titled on the reverse 35 | Piasa | €5,200
17. 2019-02-23 | Key SATO \(1906\-1978\) Aquarelle composition | HVMC \- Hôtel des Ventes de Monte\-Carlo | €400
18. 2018-09-22 | Key SATO \(1906\-1978\) | HVMC \- Hôtel des Ventes de Monte\-Carlo | N/A
19. 2017-06-29 | KEY SATO \(1906\-1978\) PIERRE AGILE, 1960 Mixed media on canvas; signed and dated 60 lower middle; signed and titled on the stretc... | Tajan | €40,300
20. 2015-12-03 | Key Sato, NIMBUS | Mallet Auction | ¥150,000
21. 2015-10-17 | Key Sato, Untitled | Floating World Auctions | N/A
22. 2015-03-24 | Key Sato, Japanese 1906\-1978\- Untitled; mixed tech | Roseberys | £650
23. 2014-11-28 | Key Sato, Work | Mallet Auction | ¥420,000
24. 2014-07-04 | Key Sato, Eclipse de Soleil | Mallet Auction | ¥200,000

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