# Mitsuru Watanabe - Auction Profile

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Updated: 2026-04-29T14:05:45.237Z

## Summary
- Lots tracked: 46
- Lots with prices: 35
- First auction date: 2008-05-25
- Latest auction date: 2025-05-30
- Median realised price: $350,000
- Price range: $90 to $3,100,000

## Market Takeaway
Mitsuru Watanabe has 46 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $350,000. 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 \($350,000\) as a typical result and the typical low/high band \($200,000 to $460,000\) 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: 2.9% (1 sales)
- $1,000 to $10,000: 0% (0 sales)
- $10,000\+: 97.1% (34 sales)

## Recent Trend & Velocity
- Last 12 months sales: 1
- Previous 12 months sales: 0
- Recent 12 months median: $226,800
- Previous 12 months median: $0
- Median shift: N/A
- Latest sale date: 2025-05-30
- Days since latest sale: 334
- Market velocity: steady

## Top Auction Houses
- Christie's: 22 lots
- Mallet Auction: 21 lots
- Westport Auction: 2 lots
- New Art Est\-Ouest Auctions: 1 lots

## Top Categories
- N/A

## Recent Sold Lots
1. 2017-05-28 | MITSURU WATANABE \(JAPAN, B. 1953\) \- NAOKO IS PLAYING IN KAKITSUBATAZU\-BYOUBU | Christie's | N/A
2. 2025-05-30 | MITSURU WATANABE \(B. 1953\). Yukiko/Waiting Time. oil on canvas laid on boar | Christie's | HK$226,800
3. 2024-04-02 | MITSURU WATANABE \(B. 1953\) Brushing Teeth in the Morning oil on canvas moun | Christie's | HK$302,400
4. 2022-12-13 | MITSURU WATANABE \(B. 1953\) Naoko with Ice\-cream oil on canvas laid on panel | Christie's | HK$63,000
5. 2022-07-07 | MITSURU WATANABE \(B. 1953\) Naoko Playing in Bosch’s Last Judgement oil on c | Christie's | HK$352,800
6. 2022-04-22 | MITSURU WATANABE \(B. 1953\) Yukiko oil on canvas 32 x 41 cm. \(12 5/8 x 16 1/ | Christie's | HK$56,700
7. 2021-12-02 | MITSURU WATANABE \(B. 1953\) Naoko Bathing in Rousseau’s Forest oil on canvas | Christie's | HK$500,000
8. 2020-11-19 | Narcisse | Mallet Auction | ¥350,000
9. 2020-02-28 | Yukiko and common camellias | Mallet Auction | ¥800,000
10. 2019-12-05 | Mitsuru Watanabe, Secret of the Forest | Mallet Auction | ¥3,100,000
11. 2019-12-05 | Mitsuru Watanabe, Yukiko Admiring Mt. Fuji | Mallet Auction | ¥760,000
12. 2019-09-27 | Mitsuru Watanabe, Naoko and Potato Chips | Mallet Auction | ¥600,000
13. 2019-05-26 | MITSURU WATANABE \(JAPAN, B. 1953\) Naoko Taking Bath in Rousseau’s Forest oil on canvas 162 x 194 cm. \(63 3/4 x 76 3/8 in.\) | Christie's | HK$250,000
14. 2018-12-11 | MITSURU WATANABE \(B. 1948\) | Westport Auction | $90
15. 2018-10-28 | MITSURU WATANABE \(B. 1948\) | Westport Auction | N/A
16. 2018-05-27 | MITSURU WATANABE \(JAPAN, B. 1953\) \- In the Forest – with Deposition of Christ | Christie's | HK$350,000
17. 2018-03-08 | Mitsuru Watanabe, Landscape with Poko | Mallet Auction | N/A
18. 2017-05-28 | MITSURU WATANABE \(JAPAN, B. 1953\) \- NAOKO IS VISITING THE SLEEPING GYPSY BY ROUSSEAU | Christie's | HK$400,000
19. 2016-12-08 | Mitsuru Watanabe, Yukiko in the Afternoon | Mallet Auction | ¥320,000
20. 2016-09-29 | Mitsuru Watanabe, Flower Picking | Mallet Auction | N/A
21. 2016-02-18 | Mitsuru Watanabe, Naoko with Icecream | Mallet Auction | ¥450,000
22. 2015-05-31 | MITSURU WATANABE \(Japanese, B. 1953\) Naoko In Bosch's Last Judgement | Christie's | HK$325,000
23. 2014-09-19 | Mitsuru Watanabe, Dozing Yukiko | Mallet Auction | ¥440,000
24. 2014-07-04 | Mitsuru Watanabe, Duck and Naoko | Mallet Auction | N/A

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