# Milt Kobayashi - Auction Profile

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Updated: 2026-05-01T11:33:33.030Z

## Summary
- Lots tracked: 46
- Lots with prices: 41
- First auction date: 2013-02-10
- Latest auction date: 2025-10-12
- Median realised price: $1,400
- Price range: $300 to $7,500

## Market Takeaway
Milt Kobayashi has 46 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $1,400. 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 \($1,400\) as a typical result and the typical low/high band \($600 to $2,200\) 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: 39% (16 sales)
- $1,000 to $10,000: 61% (25 sales)
- $10,000\+: 0% (0 sales)

## Recent Trend & Velocity
- Last 12 months sales: 7
- Previous 12 months sales: 3
- Recent 12 months median: $1,400
- Previous 12 months median: $1,900
- Median shift: 0%
- Latest sale date: 2025-10-12
- Days since latest sale: 201
- Market velocity: steady

## Top Auction Houses
- Wilson's Auctioneers and Appraisers: 14 lots
- Bonhams: 8 lots
- Clark's Fine Art & Auctioneers Inc.: 6 lots
- Morris and Whiteside Auctions LLC: 6 lots
- J. Garrett Auctioneers: 3 lots
- Willow Auction House: 2 lots
- Bill Hood & Sons Arts & Antiques Auctions: 1 lots
- Charlton Hall: 1 lots
- Circle Auction: 1 lots
- Clarke Auction Gallery: 1 lots

## Top Categories
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## Recent Sold Lots
1. 2025-05-13 | Milt Kobayashi \(b. 1950\) New York | Clark's Fine Art & Auctioneers Inc. | $1,000
2. 2025-05-03 | Milt Kobayashi, American, New York, Born 1950 | J. Garrett Auctioneers | $2,250 | source: https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot-milt-kobayashi-american-new-york-born-1950-144-c-0d64f53aa8
3. 2025-05-03 | Milt Kobayashi, American, New York, Born 1950 | J. Garrett Auctioneers | $1,400 | source: https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot-milt-kobayashi-american-new-york-born-1950-143-c-35e4574a0c
4. 2025-05-03 | Milt Kobayashi, American, New York, Born 1950 | J. Garrett Auctioneers | $2,500 | source: https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot-milt-kobayashi-american-new-york-born-1950-142-c-6fd4c0fa15
5. 2022-03-10 | Milt Kobayashi Oil on Canvas The Look She Wanted | Willow Auction House | $7,500
6. 2025-10-12 | MILT KOBAYASHI \(JAPANESE/AMERICAN, b. 1950\). | Clarke Auction Gallery | $500
7. 2025-05-13 | Milt Kobayashi \(b. 1950\) New York | Clark's Fine Art & Auctioneers Inc. | $1,200
8. 2025-05-13 | Milt Kobayashi \(b. 1950\) New York | Clark's Fine Art & Auctioneers Inc. | $2,000
9. 2025-04-15 | Milt Kobayashi \(b. 1950\) New York | Clark's Fine Art & Auctioneers Inc. | $1,900
10. 2025-04-15 | Milt Kobayashi \(b. 1950\) New York | Clark's Fine Art & Auctioneers Inc. | $1,500
11. 2025-04-15 | Milt Kobayashi \(b. 1950\) New York | Clark's Fine Art & Auctioneers Inc. | $2,500
12. 2023-08-15 | Milt Kobayashi \(American b.1950 \- New York City\) watercolor Two Ballerinas, Magazine Cover. AMERICAN ARTIST \- AUGUST 1983. painting 17 x 9 inches in gilt gallery frame. | Bill Hood & Sons Arts & Antiques Auctions | $1,700
13. 2023-06-20 | Milt Kobayashi \(b. 1950\) The Night Before, 2003 Oil on canvas 14 x 12 inches \(35 | Heritage Auctions | $2,300
14. 2022-03-10 | Milt Kobayashi Oil on Canvas Open Fans | Willow Auction House | $5,500
15. 2021-07-13 | Milt Kobayashi \(born 1950\) At the Baroil on canvas, signed 'M KB' lower left8 x 8in \(20.4 x 20.4cm\) | Bonhams | $2,200
16. 2021-07-13 | Milt Kobayashi \(born 1950\) Calmoil on canvas, signed 'MK B' lower right8 x 8in \(20.4 x 20.4cm\) | Bonhams | $1,800
17. 2021-07-13 | Milt Kobayashi \(born 1950\) Her Lookoil on canvas, signed 'MK B' lower center and titled on the stretcher12 x 8in \(30.5 x 20.4cm\) | Bonhams | $2,500
18. 2019-04-17 | Milt Kobayashi \(American, born 1950\) The Corner of the Bar | Bonhams | £1,657
19. 2019-04-17 | Milt Kobayashi \(American, born 1950\) Sisters | Bonhams | £2,422
20. 2019-03-27 | Milt Kobayashi Oil Painting Illustration Man Of | Wilson's Auctioneers and Appraisers | $475
21. 2019-03-27 | Milt Kobayashi Oil Painting Illustration Man Of | Wilson's Auctioneers and Appraisers | $550
22. 2019-03-27 | Milt Kobayashi Oil Painting Illustration Man Of | Wilson's Auctioneers and Appraisers | $500
23. 2019-03-27 | Milt Kobayashi Oil Painting Illustration Light in | Wilson's Auctioneers and Appraisers | $700
24. 2019-03-27 | Milt Kobayashi Oil Painting Illustration Light in | Wilson's Auctioneers and Appraisers | $500

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