# Mikio Watanabe - Auction Profile

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Updated: 2026-04-29T14:09:47.072Z

## Summary
- Lots tracked: 73
- Lots with prices: 54
- First auction date: 2009-05-03
- Latest auction date: 2025-12-04
- Median realised price: $220
- Price range: $50 to $2,300

## Market Takeaway
Mikio Watanabe has 73 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $220. Category concentration is still broad. Last 12 months recorded 7 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 \($220\) as a typical result and the typical low/high band \($120 to $380\) 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: 96.3% (52 sales)
- $1,000 to $10,000: 3.7% (2 sales)
- $10,000\+: 0% (0 sales)

## Recent Trend & Velocity
- Last 12 months sales: 7
- Previous 12 months sales: 5
- Recent 12 months median: $320
- Previous 12 months median: $200
- Median shift: 60%
- Latest sale date: 2025-12-04
- Days since latest sale: 146
- Market velocity: steady

## Top Auction Houses
- Weschler's: 13 lots
- Rachel Davis Fine Arts: 11 lots
- Clark's Fine Art & Auctioneers Inc.: 9 lots
- Pasarel: 9 lots
- Maison Jules Veilinghuis: 5 lots
- RoGallery: 5 lots
- Capo Auction: 2 lots
- Concept Art Gallery: 2 lots
- Picenum: 2 lots
- TGP Auction: 2 lots

## Top Categories
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## Recent Sold Lots
1. 2024-02-24 | Mikio WATANABE \- Les mouches  | MDP Auction | N/A
2. 2025-12-04 | MIKIO WATANABE, DUETTO III 1994, | Leonard Joel | A$380
3. 2025-11-04 | Mikio WATANABE | Artcurial | €120
4. 2025-09-03 | Mikio Watanabe, The Satin Suite | Los Angeles Modern Auctions | $800
5. 2025-05-12 | Mikio WATANABE \(1954\), mezzotint ‘pluie d'or’, signed and numbered 55/99 | Maison Jules Veilinghuis | €320
6. 2025-05-02 | MIKIO WATANABE, CONFIDENT, MEZZOTINT | RoGallery | N/A
7. 2025-05-02 | MIKIO WATANABE, DANSE DES BRUMES, MEZZOTINT | RoGallery | N/A
8. 2025-05-02 | MIKIO WATANABE, VOIE LACTEE, MEZZOTINT | RoGallery | N/A
9. 2024-12-07 | Mikio Watanabe \(Japanese, 1954\- \) mezzotint | Rachel Davis Fine Arts | $120
10. 2024-11-25 | Mikio WATANABE \(1954\), mezzotint ‘Origine’, signed and numbered 90/90 | Maison Jules Veilinghuis | €200
11. 2024-11-25 | Mikio WATANABE \(1954\), mezzotint ‘Compassion I’, signed and numbered 90/90 | Maison Jules Veilinghuis | €220
12. 2024-11-25 | Mikio WATANABE \(1954\), mezzotint ‘pluie d'or’, signed and numbered 55/99 | Maison Jules Veilinghuis | €180
13. 2024-11-25 | Mikio WATANABE \(1954\), mezzotint ‘Compassion II’, signed and numbered 90/90 | Maison Jules Veilinghuis | €220
14. 2024-03-10 | MIKIO WATANABE \- LES MOUCHES  | TGP Auction | N/A
15. 2024-01-21 | MIKIO WATANABE \- LES MOUCHES  | TGP Auction | N/A
16. 2023-12-13 | Mikio Watanabe \(b. 1954\) Japan \(two\) | Clark's Fine Art & Auctioneers Inc. | $110
17. 2023-12-13 | Mikio Watanabe \(b. 1954\) Japan | Clark's Fine Art & Auctioneers Inc. | $225
18. 2023-12-13 | Mikio Watanabe \(b. 1954\) Japan | Clark's Fine Art & Auctioneers Inc. | $160
19. 2023-12-13 | Mikio Watanabe \(b. 1954\) Japan | Clark's Fine Art & Auctioneers Inc. | $200
20. 2023-12-13 | Mikio Watanabe \(b. 1954\) Japan \(three\) | Clark's Fine Art & Auctioneers Inc. | $550
21. 2023-11-15 | Mikio Watanabe \(b. 1954\) Japan | Clark's Fine Art & Auctioneers Inc. | $130
22. 2023-11-15 | Mikio Watanabe \(b. 1954\) Japan | Clark's Fine Art & Auctioneers Inc. | $110
23. 2023-11-15 | Mikio Watanabe \(b. 1954\) Japan | Clark's Fine Art & Auctioneers Inc. | $110
24. 2023-11-15 | Mikio Watanabe \(b. 1954\) Japan | Clark's Fine Art & Auctioneers Inc. | $110

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