# Ming Yu - Auction Profile

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Updated: 2026-05-26T09:04:11.527Z

## Summary
- Lots tracked: 36
- Lots with prices: 21
- First auction date: 2004-04-26
- Latest auction date: 2025-10-28
- Median realised price: $85,000
- Price range: $24,000 to $480,000

## Market Takeaway
Ming Yu has 36 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $85,000. Category concentration is still broad. Last 12 months recorded 1 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 \($85,000\) as a typical result and the typical low/high band \($55,000 to $120,000\) 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: 0% (0 sales)
- $1,000 to $10,000: 0% (0 sales)
- $10,000\+: 100% (21 sales)

## Recent Trend & Velocity
- Last 12 months sales: 1
- Previous 12 months sales: 2
- Recent 12 months median: $0
- Previous 12 months median: $52,920
- Median shift: 0%
- Latest sale date: 2025-10-28
- Days since latest sale: 209
- Market velocity: steady

## Top Auction Houses
- Sotheby's: 12 lots
- Christie's: 11 lots
- Bonhams: 7 lots
- China Arts Auction: 3 lots
- Treasure Auction Co., Ltd. Shanxi: 1 lots
- William's Auctions, LLC: 1 lots
- Xiamen Gu Yun Xuan Culture and Arts Co., Ltd.: 1 lots

## Top Categories
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## Recent Sold Lots
1. 2025-10-28 | YU MING \(1884\-1935\) Picking Water Chestnut; Calligraphy in Seal Script, 1938 | Bonhams | N/A
2. 2025-02-26 | YU MING \(1884\-1935\) / WANG DINGMING \(19\-20TH CENTURY\). Scholar under Pavill | Christie's | HK$52,920
3. 2024-11-29 | YU MING \(1884\-1935\) Celebrating the New Year, 1919 | Bonhams | HK$55,000
4. 2024-05-13 | YU MING, ATTRIBUTED TO, LADY UNDER THE WILLOW SHADE | China Arts Auction | N/A
5. 2023-12-28 | YU MING, ATTRIBUTED TO, FEMALE SERVANT UNDER WILLOW SHADOW | China Arts Auction | N/A
6. 2023-08-01 | YU MING, ATTRIBUTED TO, FEMALE SERVANT UNDER WILLOW SHADE | China Arts Auction | N/A
7. 2022-06-02 | YU MING \(1884\-1935\) Concubine Yang Leaving the Bath | Bonhams | HK$30,000
8. 2021-06-01 | Yu Ming \(1884\-1935\) Lady Boating under Willow Tree | Bonhams | HK$85,000
9. 2020-07-10 | YU MING \| Vagrant and Dogs | Sotheby's | HK$100,000
10. 2019-10-07 | YU MING \| Scholar in a Red Robe | Sotheby's | HK$150,000
11. 2018-06-23 | YU MING OIL PAINTING, ATTRIBUTED TO | William's Auctions, LLC | N/A
12. 2018-04-02 | YU MING \| Lady Returning from the Northern Lands; Calligraphy | Sotheby's | HK$220,000
13. 2018-04-02 | YU MING \| Buddha | Sotheby's | HK$120,000
14. 2016-04-04 | YU MING \| Laozi | Sotheby's | N/A
15. 2016-04-04 | YU MING \| Studio under Tung Tree | Sotheby's | HK$120,000
16. 2015-10-06 | YU MING \(1884\-1935\) \| Ladies Picking Water Chestnut | Sotheby's | HK$118,750
17. 2014-11-30 | Yu Ming incense burning chasing snails A History of Education | Treasure Auction Co., Ltd. Shanxi | N/A
18. 2014-08-21 | Yu Ming \(1884\-1935\) water pines | Xiamen Gu Yun Xuan Culture and Arts Co., Ltd. | N/A
19. 2010-10-05 | YU MING 1884\-1935 | Sotheby's | HK$100,000 | source: https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot-yu-ming-1884-1935-997-c-d48a9886ee
20. 2010-09-17 | YU MING \(1884\-1935\) | Christie's | N/A
21. 2010-09-16 | YU MING \(1884\-1935\) | Christie's | N/A
22. 2007-12-18 | Yu Ming \(1884\-1935\) and Jin Rong \(1885\-1928\) Four album leaves | Bonhams | N/A
23. 2007-11-26 | YU MING \(1884\-1935\) | Christie's | HK$81,250
24. 2006-11-27 | YU MING \(1884\-1935\) | Christie's | HK$24,000

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