# Kim Lim - Auction Profile

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## Summary
- Lots tracked: 55
- Lots with prices: 49
- First auction date: 2006-06-28
- Latest auction date: 2025-11-27
- Median realised price: $600
- Price range: $90 to $225,000

## Market Takeaway
Kim Lim has 55 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $600. Category concentration is still broad. Last 12 months recorded 6 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 \($600\) as a typical result and the typical low/high band \($300 to $1,400\) 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: 65.3% (32 sales)
- $1,000 to $10,000: 22.4% (11 sales)
- $10,000\+: 12.2% (6 sales)

## Recent Trend & Velocity
- Last 12 months sales: 6
- Previous 12 months sales: 4
- Recent 12 months median: $650
- Previous 12 months median: $600
- Median shift: 8.3%
- Latest sale date: 2025-11-27
- Days since latest sale: 153
- Market velocity: steady

## Top Auction Houses
- Roseberys: 20 lots
- Christie's: 8 lots
- Morphy Auctions: 4 lots
- Sotheby's: 4 lots
- Toomey & Co. Auctioneers: 4 lots
- Forum Auctions \- UK: 3 lots
- Bonhams: 2 lots
- Clark's Fine Art & Auctioneers Inc.: 2 lots
- Lyon & Turnbull: 2 lots
- Chiswick Auctions: 1 lots

## Top Categories
- N/A

## Recent Sold Lots
1. 2025-01-18 | Kim Lim 林真金 \| RONIN | Sotheby's | $168,000
2. 2025-11-27 | Kim Lim \(1936\-1997\) Shaded Grey | Forum Auctions \- UK | £550
3. 2025-11-25 | Kim Lim, Singaporean/British 1936\-1997,  Abstract; woodblock with silver | Roseberys | £400
4. 2025-09-17 | Kim Lim,  Dunhuang Series 1, 1988 | Roseberys | £650 | source: https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot-kim-lim-dunhuang-series-1-1988-61-c-1cb45e5b77
5. 2025-06-25 | Kim Lim, Singaporean/British, 1936\-1997 Relief 1993 | Roseberys | £750 | source: https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot-kim-lim-singaporean-british-1936-1997-relief-1993-396-c-d8e4d969c3
6. 2025-06-24 | Kim Lim \(b. 1936\) Singapore | Clark's Fine Art & Auctioneers Inc. | $700
7. 2025-06-24 | Kim Lim \(b. 1936\) Singapore | Clark's Fine Art & Auctioneers Inc. | $700
8. 2025-04-09 | Kim Lim,  Relief, 1993; | Roseberys | £650 | source: https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot-kim-lim-relief-1993-313-c-3e641f2a4e
9. 2025-02-19 | Kim Lim,  Shaded Grey, 1993 | Roseberys | £600
10. 2025-02-19 | Kim Lim,  Relief, 1993 | Roseberys | £600
11. 2023-07-27 | Kim Lim, Yellow Ochre Aquatint | Toomey & Co. Auctioneers | $1,400
12. 2023-07-27 | Kim Lim, Jaune fonce aquatint | Toomey & Co. Auctioneers | $650
13. 2023-07-27 | Kim Lim, BX II | Toomey & Co. Auctioneers | $1,000
14. 2023-07-27 | Kim Lim, Miscellaneous Etchings | Toomey & Co. Auctioneers | $2,600
15. 2022-11-30 | Kim Lim, Singaporean/British 1936\-1997, Relief, 1993; lithograph printed in colours on Somerset | Roseberys | £400
16. 2021-11-02 | Kim Lim, Singaporean/British 1936\-1997\- Relief, 1993; lithograph on wove, signed, dated and ins | Roseberys | £1,000
17. 2021-10-21 | KIM LIM \(1936\-1997\) \- Untitled Relief | Christie's | £22,500
18. 2021-10-21 | KIM LIM \(1936\-1997\) \- Untitled | Christie's | £25,000
19. 2021-07-07 | Kim Lim, Singaporean/British 1936\-1997\- Relief, … | Roseberys | £1,000
20. 2021-06-01 | KIM LIM \(1936 – 1997\). | Chiswick Auctions | £300
21. 2021-03-09 | Kim Lim, Singaporean/British 1936\-1997\- Relief, 1993; lithograph in colour on wove, signed, dat | Roseberys | £1,200
22. 2019-10-14 | Kim Lim, Singaporean/British 1936\-1997\- Dunhuang Series 3, 1988; lithograph in colours on wove, signed, dated, titled and numbered 4/10 in pencil, sheet 74.7 x 54.5cm \(framed\) \(ARR\) Please refer to department for condition report | Roseberys | £480
23. 2019-09-25 | Kim Lim \(1936\-1997\) Untitled \(Blue\) | Forum Auctions \- UK | £650
24. 2019-04-08 | Kim Lim, Singaporean/British 1936\-1997\- Time Shift B, 1993; screenprint in colours on wove, signed, titled and dated verso, from the edition of 20, printed by Curwen Studios, sheet 39x52cm \(framed\)\(ARR\) | Roseberys | £550

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