# Masanari Murai - Auction Profile

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## Summary
- Lots tracked: 15
- Lots with prices: 10
- First auction date: 2012-11-30
- Latest auction date: 2023-12-14
- Median realised price: $400
- Price range: $80 to $200,000

## Market Takeaway
Masanari Murai has 15 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $400. Category concentration is still broad. Recent 12-month volume is still light. 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 \($400\) as a typical result and the typical low/high band \($375 to $650\) 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: 80% (8 sales)
- $1,000 to $10,000: 0% (0 sales)
- $10,000\+: 20% (2 sales)

## Recent Trend & Velocity
- Last 12 months sales: 0
- Previous 12 months sales: 0
- Recent 12 months median: $0
- Previous 12 months median: $0
- Median shift: N/A
- Latest sale date: 2023-12-14
- Days since latest sale: 868
- Market velocity: inactive

## Top Auction Houses
- Mallet Auction: 5 lots
- O'Gallerie: 3 lots
- Christie's: 1 lots
- Lawsons: 1 lots
- Nye & Company: 1 lots
- Pacific Galleries: 1 lots
- Pangaea Auctions: 1 lots
- Swann Auction Galleries: 1 lots
- Weschler's: 1 lots

## Top Categories
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## Recent Sold Lots
1. 2023-12-14 | Face | Mallet Auction | N/A
2. 2022-03-04 | Masanari Murai \(Japanese 1905\-1999\) and Kojin Toneyama \(Japanese 1921\-1994\), Untitled: Two Works, a Screenprint and Embossed Lithograph | Weschler's | $500
3. 2022-02-22 | MASANARI MURAI LITHOGRAPH | O'Gallerie | $550
4. 2021-09-21 | MASANARI MURAI LITHOGRAPH | O'Gallerie | $375
5. 2021-04-21 | Masanari Murai, Japanese Abstract Print | Nye & Company | $350
6. 2019-07-04 | Masanari Murai \(1905 \- 1999\) \- Face, 1974 71 x 53cm sheet | Lawsons | A$80
7. 2017-05-25 | MASANARI MURAI \(1905\-1999\). JAPANESE PRINTS OF TODAY / THE NEW YORK CULTURAL CENTER. 1973. 43x31 inches, 109x78 cm. | Swann Auction Galleries | $375
8. 2016-10-11 | Masanari Murai \(1905 \- 1999\) Mother and Child B | Christie's | £10,000
9. 2016-09-29 | Masanari Murai, Today's Face | Mallet Auction | N/A
10. 2016-07-14 | Masanari Murai, Face | Mallet Auction | N/A
11. 2016-07-14 | Masanari Murai, Face | Mallet Auction | N/A
12. 2015-07-25 | Masanari MURAI \(1905\-1999\), Japanese artist executed this paining in 1957. A lithograph signed and numbered 4/39. \(Size: See second photo for measurement.\) Photos are part of the description representing the condition report. Pangaea Auctions urges Bidder's to view all attached photos. | Pangaea Auctions | N/A
13. 2014-05-12 | MASANARI MURAI \(1905\-1999, Japan\) SILKSCREEN \- Signed in pencil, lower right and numbered 70/80, this abstract composition silkscree... | Pacific Galleries | $650
14. 2013-10-30 | MASANARI MURAI LITHOGRAPH \(Japan, 1905\-1999\) | O'Gallerie | $400
15. 2012-11-30 | Masanari Murai, Tokio | Mallet Auction | ¥200,000

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