# Kobe - Auction Profile

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Updated: 2026-05-01T06:09:40.484Z

## Summary
- Lots tracked: 30
- Lots with prices: 18
- First auction date: 2008-03-08
- Latest auction date: 2025-12-01
- Median realised price: $4,000
- Price range: $15 to $8,000

## Market Takeaway
Kobe has 30 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $4,000. Category concentration is still broad. Last 12 months recorded 9 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 \($4,000\) as a typical result and the typical low/high band \($1,900 to $7,000\) 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: 16.7% (3 sales)
- $1,000 to $10,000: 83.3% (15 sales)
- $10,000\+: 0% (0 sales)

## Recent Trend & Velocity
- Last 12 months sales: 9
- Previous 12 months sales: 4
- Recent 12 months median: $7,000
- Previous 12 months median: $3,800
- Median shift: 84.2%
- Latest sale date: 2025-12-01
- Days since latest sale: 151
- Market velocity: moderate

## Top Auction Houses
- De Vuyst: 13 lots
- Maison Jules Veilinghuis: 6 lots
- DVC: 2 lots
- Vendu Rotterdam: 2 lots
- AAG Auctioneers: 1 lots
- Bernaerts Auctioneers: 1 lots
- Carlo Bonte Auctions: 1 lots
- Henry's Auktionshaus: 1 lots
- MJV Soudant: 1 lots
- Roseberys: 1 lots

## Top Categories
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## Recent Sold Lots
1. 2025-05-17 | Kobe \- Baby doll | De Vuyst | €4,000
2. 2012-08-18 | Kobe, Martin, geb. 1973 Dresden, lebt und arbeitet | Henry's Auktionshaus | €15
3. 2025-12-01 | KOBE \(1950\-2014\), sculpture in sandstone Mère et enfant \(1998\), signed | Maison Jules Veilinghuis | N/A
4. 2025-10-27 | KOBE \(1950\-2014\), sculpture in sandstone Mère et enfant \(1998\), signed | Maison Jules Veilinghuis | N/A
5. 2025-10-25 | Kobe \- La terre | De Vuyst | €7,000
6. 2025-10-15 | Kobe \(1950\-2014\) | Venduehuis der Notarissen | N/A
7. 2025-05-19 | Kobe \(1950\-2014\) | Vendu Rotterdam | N/A
8. 2025-05-19 | Kobe \(1950\-2014\) | Vendu Rotterdam | N/A
9. 2025-05-17 | Kobe \- La mignonne | De Vuyst | €7,500
10. 2025-05-17 | Kobe \- Large torso | De Vuyst | €7,000
11. 2025-04-15 | KOBE \(1950\-2014\), sculpture in alabaster of a horse 'POULAIN', 1995, pièce unique, signed | Maison Jules Veilinghuis | N/A
12. 2024-10-19 | Kobe \- Petra dancing | De Vuyst | N/A
13. 2024-09-28 | KOBE \(1950 \- 2014\) "Europa" sculpture in bronze wi… | DVC | €4,000
14. 2024-09-28 | KOBE \(1950 \- 2014\) 20th Cent. Belgian sculpture in… | DVC | €3,800
15. 2022-10-12 | KOBE \(1950\-2014\) | Bernaerts Auctioneers | €3,000
16. 2022-07-21 | KOBE \(1950\-2014\)., Testa nel veto., Bronze à patine verte., E.A 2/4., Fondeur Mariani., Collection privée Belge., Ht : 29 cm., KOBE \(1950\-2014\)., Testa nel veto., Brons met groene patina., EA 2/4., Mariani oprichter.,... | MJV Soudant | €1,200
17. 2021-10-22 | Kobe \(1950\-2014\), patinated bronze, N° 1/4, H 35 cm | Carlo Bonte Auctions | €2,200
18. 2019-12-01 | KOBE \(1950\-2014\) | Maison Jules Veilinghuis | €100
19. 2019-12-01 | KOBE \(1950\-2014\) | Maison Jules Veilinghuis | N/A
20. 2017-12-18 | Kobe \(Kortrijk 1950 \- Saint\-Julien 2014\) | AAG Auctioneers | €1,900
21. 2016-11-27 | KOBE \(1950\) | Maison Jules Veilinghuis | N/A
22. 2014-05-10 | Kobe, Belgian b.1950\- "La Danseuse de Nuit", 1994; | Roseberys | £800
23. 2008-10-11 | KOBE \(JACQUES SAELENS\) 1950 \- Belgian School HORSE | De Vuyst | €6,500
24. 2008-10-11 | KOBE \(JACQUES SAELENS\) 1950 \- Belgian School | De Vuyst | €8,000

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