# Mathias Kauage - Auction Profile

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Updated: 2026-05-01T09:52:35.657Z

## Summary
- Lots tracked: 24
- Lots with prices: 18
- First auction date: 2013-11-21
- Latest auction date: 2025-09-14
- Median realised price: $400
- Price range: $75 to $6,600

## Market Takeaway
Mathias Kauage has 24 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $400. Category concentration is still broad. Last 12 months recorded 4 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 \($400\) as a typical result and the typical low/high band \($280 to $1,200\) 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: 72.2% (13 sales)
- $1,000 to $10,000: 27.8% (5 sales)
- $10,000\+: 0% (0 sales)

## Recent Trend & Velocity
- Last 12 months sales: 4
- Previous 12 months sales: 2
- Recent 12 months median: $300
- Previous 12 months median: $0
- Median shift: N/A
- Latest sale date: 2025-09-14
- Days since latest sale: 229
- Market velocity: steady

## Top Auction Houses
- Shapiro Auctioneers: 6 lots
- Leonard Joel: 5 lots
- Quinn's Auction Galleries: 3 lots
- Lawsons: 2 lots
- Lawson~Menzies: 2 lots
- Theodore Bruce Auctioneers & Valuers: 2 lots
- Gray's Auctioneers: 1 lots
- Kodner Galleries: 1 lots
- Leski Auctions Pty Ltd: 1 lots
- Saskatchewan Network for Art Collecting: 1 lots

## Top Categories
- N/A

## Recent Sold Lots
1. 2025-09-14 | MATHIAS KAUAGE \- Decorated Woman | Saskatchewan Network for Art Collecting | CA$140 | source: https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot-mathias-kauage-decorated-woman-28-c-e114838894
2. 2025-05-29 | MATHIAS KAUAGE, PUKPUK MERI NA MAN I GAT TUPELA HET, | Leonard Joel | A$300
3. 2025-05-15 | MATHIAS KAUAGE, UNTITLED, | Leonard Joel | A$460
4. 2025-05-15 | MATHIAS KAUAGE, PUKPUK MERI NA MAN I GAT TUPELA HET, | Leonard Joel | N/A
5. 2024-08-29 | Mathias Kauage, PNG , Untitled, Paint on paper, mounted | Theodore Bruce Auctioneers & Valuers | N/A
6. 2024-08-29 | Mathias Kauage, PNG , Untitled, Acrylic paint on paper, mounted. | Theodore Bruce Auctioneers & Valuers | N/A
7. 2024-02-10 | MATHIAS KAUAGE \(1944\-2003\), I.\) \(untitled spirit figure\), II.\) \(untitled spirit figure\), pen on paper, one signed upper right "Kauge", the larger 82 x 62cm overall | Leski Auctions Pty Ltd | A$320
8. 2023-11-16 | MATHIAS KAUAGE \(1944 \- 2003\) Figure in Traditional Dress hand\-beaten copper 132 x 82 x 3 cm signed lower right | Lawsons | A$1,200
9. 2022-02-24 | MATHIAS KAUAGE \(1944 \- 2003\) Figure, 1987 felt tip on paper 40 x 58 cm \(frame: 83 x 62 x 2 cm\) signed lower right | Lawsons | A$350
10. 2021-11-10 | Mathias Kauage \(1944 \- 2003\) | Kodner Galleries | $75
11. 2021-07-28 | Mathias Kauage \(Papua New Guinean, 1944\-2003\) | Shapiro Auctioneers | A$420
12. 2021-03-04 | MATHIAS KAUAGE, UNTITLED, COPPER PRESSED PLATE, 46 X 42.5CM, LEONARD JOEL DELIVERY SIZE: SMALL | Leonard Joel | A$280
13. 2020-10-22 | MATHIAS KAUAGE, "ERUPTION OF THE MANAM VOLCANO." | Quinn's Auction Galleries | $400
14. 2020-03-04 | MATHIAS KAUAGE, ERUPTION OF THE MANAM VOLCANO. | Quinn's Auction Galleries | N/A
15. 2020-03-04 | MATHIAS KAUAGE, WOMAN WITH A BUNCH OF BETEL NUT. | Quinn's Auction Galleries | $250
16. 2019-12-08 | Mathias Kauage \(Papua New Guinean, 1944\-2003\) | Shapiro Auctioneers | N/A
17. 2019-12-08 | Mathias Kauage \(Papua New Guinean, 1944\-2003\) | Shapiro Auctioneers | A$660
18. 2018-11-21 | Mathias Kauage \(Papua New Guinean, 1944\-2003\) | Shapiro Auctioneers | N/A
19. 2018-05-14 | Mathias Kauage \(Papua New Guinean, 1944\-2003\) | Shapiro Auctioneers | A$6,600
20. 2018-05-14 | Mathias Kauage \(Papua New Guinean, 1944\-2003\) | Shapiro Auctioneers | A$2,160
21. 2015-05-14 | MATHIAS KAUAGE \(Papua New Guinean 1944\-2003\) Independence Celebration c.1972 lithograph 45/50 | Leonard Joel | A$160
22. 2014-11-05 | Mathias Kauage \(1944\-2003\) Fantasy Creatures, Hammered copper plate, | Gray's Auctioneers | $1,230
23. 2013-11-21 | MATHIAS KAUAGE \(1944\-2003, Papua New Guinea\) | Lawson~Menzies | A$675
24. 2013-11-21 | MATHIAS KAUAGE \(1944\-2003, Papua New Guinea\) | Lawson~Menzies | A$1,227

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