# Minoru Kawabata - Auction Profile

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Updated: 2026-05-01T11:36:35.277Z

## Summary
- Lots tracked: 27
- Lots with prices: 17
- First auction date: 2008-05-14
- Latest auction date: 2025-10-02
- Median realised price: $7,500
- Price range: $275 to $1,250,000

## Market Takeaway
Minoru Kawabata has 27 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $7,500. 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 \($7,500\) as a typical result and the typical low/high band \($2,600 to $160,000\) 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: 23.5% (4 sales)
- $1,000 to $10,000: 29.4% (5 sales)
- $10,000\+: 47.1% (8 sales)

## Recent Trend & Velocity
- Last 12 months sales: 1
- Previous 12 months sales: 0
- Recent 12 months median: $0
- Previous 12 months median: $0
- Median shift: N/A
- Latest sale date: 2025-10-02
- Days since latest sale: 210
- Market velocity: steady

## Top Auction Houses
- Mallet Auction: 10 lots
- Skinner: 4 lots
- Christie's: 3 lots
- Clarke Auction Gallery: 3 lots
- Cambi Casa d'Aste: 1 lots
- Concept Art Gallery: 1 lots
- Quinn's Auction Galleries: 1 lots
- Rago Arts and Auction Center: 1 lots
- STAIR: 1 lots
- William Bunch Auctions & Appraisals: 1 lots

## Top Categories
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## Recent Sold Lots
1. 2025-10-02 | Minoru Kawabata\_Untitled | Mallet Auction | N/A
2. 2023-09-22 | Minoru Kawabata, Untitled, O/C, 1972. | Quinn's Auction Galleries | $500
3. 2022-04-23 | Minoru Kawabata 1981 Untitled acrylic painting | Concept Art Gallery | $3,800
4. 2022-04-21 | Minoru Kawabata, Untitled | Wright | $2,600
5. 2021-11-12 | Minoru Kawabata, Image of Robe | Rago Arts and Auction Center | N/A
6. 2021-07-08 | Minoru Kawabata \(1911\-2001\), N. 8 | Cambi Casa d'Aste | N/A
7. 2020-11-19 | Work | Mallet Auction | ¥180,000
8. 2020-11-19 | Work | Mallet Auction | ¥160,000
9. 2020-09-10 | May | Mallet Auction | N/A
10. 2020-05-31 | Minoru Kawabata \(Japanese 1911 \- 2001\) | Clarke Auction Gallery | $500
11. 2020-05-31 | Minoru Kawabata \(Japanese 1911 \- 2001\) | Clarke Auction Gallery | $275
12. 2020-05-31 | Minoru Kawabata \(Japanese 1911 \- 2001\) | Clarke Auction Gallery | N/A
13. 2019-03-26 | Minoru Kawabata \(Japanese, 1911\-2001\), "Abstract Painting Form from Robe", acrylic on canvas, 78" x 66", signed M. Kawabata, 1985 on... | William Bunch Auctions & Appraisals | $7,500
14. 2017-04-27 | Minoru Kawabata, Untitled | Mallet Auction | ¥50,000
15. 2016-10-11 | Minoru Kawabata \(1911 \- 2001\) Rouge Puissant \(Loud Red\) | Christie's | N/A
16. 2016-04-21 | Minoru Kawabata, Work | Mallet Auction | ¥150,000
17. 2016-04-21 | Minoru Kawabata, Work | Mallet Auction | ¥310,000
18. 2015-12-03 | Minoru Kawabata, Work | Mallet Auction | ¥200,000
19. 2015-09-17 | Minoru Kawabata, Work Gray | Mallet Auction | ¥1,250,000
20. 2014-02-07 | Minoru Kawabata \(Japanese, 1911\-2001\), From Rectangle Red, Signed and dated "M. Kawabata 1979" on the reverse, with a label from Betty | Skinner | N/A
21. 2013-10-12 | Minoru Kawabata \(1911\-2001\) Painting, Japan, abstract with blue, orange, and green, acrylic on canvas, signed on verso "M. Kawabata," 3 | Skinner | $3,360
22. 2013-10-12 | Minoru Kawabata \(1911\-2001\) Painting, Japan, "From Rectangle Red," acrylic on canvas, signed on verso "M. Kawabata," 1979, 60 x 66 in. | Skinner | N/A
23. 2013-05-17 | Minoru Kawabata \(Japanese, 1911\-2001\), Red Wave, Signed "M Kawabata" on the reverse, identified on labels from The Betty Parsons, Condi | Skinner | N/A
24. 2012-11-30 | Minoru Kawabata, Work | Mallet Auction | ¥45,000

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