# Kumi Sugai - Auction Profile

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Updated: 2026-05-01T10:22:50.241Z

## Summary
- Lots tracked: 330
- Lots with prices: 222
- First auction date: 2001-02-08
- Latest auction date: 2025-12-16
- Median realised price: $960
- Price range: $25 to $3,100,000

## Market Takeaway
Kumi Sugai shows deep auction liquidity with 330 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $960. Category concentration is still broad or sparse. Last 12 months recorded 31 sales. Latest recorded sale: 2025-12-16.

## How To Read This Data
- Use the median \($960\) as a typical result; many comparable sales cluster between $260 and $29,550.
- 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: 50.5% (112 sales)
- $1,000 to $10,000: 17.6% (39 sales)
- $10,000\+: 32% (71 sales)

## Recent Trend & Velocity
- Last 12 months sales: 31
- Previous 12 months sales: 16
- Recent 12 months median: $600
- Previous 12 months median: $350
- Median shift: 71.4%
- Latest sale date: 2025-12-16
- Days since latest sale: 64
- Market velocity: high

## Top Auction Houses
- Mallet Auction: 52 lots
- Christie's: 47 lots
- Das Kunst\- und Auktionshaus Kastern GmbH & Co KG: 18 lots
- Artcurial: 13 lots
- Sotheby's: 13 lots
- Bonhams: 12 lots
- Cornette de Saint\-Cyr: 12 lots
- Bernaerts Auctioneers: 10 lots
- Venduehuis der Notarissen: 8 lots
- Auctionata Paddle8 AG: 7 lots

## Top Categories
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## Recent Sold Lots
1. 2025-12-16 | KUMI SUGAI \(1919\-1996\). Untitled. oil and cardboard collage on canvas7 ¼ x | Christie's | $1,651
2. 2025-12-09 | Kumi Sugai \(Japanese, 1919\-1996\) Untitled | Freeman’s | $1,000
3. 2025-12-04 | KUMI SUGAI \(1919\-1996\) | Bernaerts Auctioneers | €600
4. 2025-11-15 | Kumi Sugai | Das Kunst\- und Auktionshaus Kastern GmbH & Co KG | €120
5. 2025-11-15 | Kumi Sugai | Das Kunst\- und Auktionshaus Kastern GmbH & Co KG | N/A
6. 2025-11-08 | Kumi Sugai \(1919\-1996\) Oil/Canvas | Joshua Kodner | $500
7. 2025-11-08 | SEASHORE | Tozai New Art Co Ltd | ¥430,000
8. 2025-10-30 | Kumi Sugai, Untitled | Wright | $7,000
9. 2025-10-11 | Ottobre: il silenzio | Fabiani Arte | €300
10. 2025-10-09 | KUMI SUGAI \(1919\-1996\) | Bernaerts Auctioneers | €450
11. 2025-09-20 | Kumi Sugai | Das Kunst\- und Auktionshaus Kastern GmbH & Co KG | €260
12. 2025-09-20 | Kumi Sugai | Das Kunst\- und Auktionshaus Kastern GmbH & Co KG | €200
13. 2025-09-20 | Kumi Sugai | Das Kunst\- und Auktionshaus Kastern GmbH & Co KG | €50
14. 2025-09-17 | Kumi Sugai, 1919\-1996, Deux Balles | Abell Auction | $200
15. 2025-09-15 | Kumi Sugai \(French/Japanese, 1919\-1996\) | Venduehuis der Notarissen | N/A
16. 2025-07-18 | KUMI SUGAI \(1919\-1996\). Untitled. ink on paper28 ½ x 20 ¾ in. \(72.4 x 52.7 | Christie's | $3,780
17. 2025-07-18 | KUMI SUGAI \(1919\-1996\). Petit Diable. bronze18 ½ x 9 x 4 ¼ in. \(47 x 22.9 x | Christie's | $8,190
18. 2025-06-21 | Kumi Sugai | Das Kunst\- und Auktionshaus Kastern GmbH & Co KG | €90
19. 2025-06-21 | Kumi Sugai | Das Kunst\- und Auktionshaus Kastern GmbH & Co KG | €220
20. 2025-06-21 | Kumi Sugai | Das Kunst\- und Auktionshaus Kastern GmbH & Co KG | €220
21. 2025-05-31 | UNTITLED | New Art Est\-Ouest Auctions | N/A
22. 2025-05-15 | Work | Mallet Auction | ¥780,000
23. 2025-04-29 | KUMI SUGAI \(1919\-1996\) | Bernaerts Auctioneers | €260
24. 2025-04-19 | Kumi Sugai \(1919\-1996\) Japan \- France | Art\-Torg | €5,750

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