# Motonaga Sadamasa - Auction Profile

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Updated: 2026-05-04T12:17:39.714Z

## Summary
- Lots tracked: 239
- Lots with prices: 181
- First auction date: 2007-11-30
- Latest auction date: 2025-12-04
- Median realised price: $350,000
- Price range: $125 to $10,500,000

## Market Takeaway
Motonaga Sadamasa shows deep auction liquidity with 239 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $350,000. Category concentration is still broad or sparse. Last 12 months recorded 11 sales. Latest recorded sale: 2025-12-04.

## How To Read This Data
- Use the median \($350,000\) as a typical result; many comparable sales cluster between $100,000 and $862,500.
- Auction totals can include buyer premiums or fees depending on reporting, so compare like\-for\-like when possible.
- Condition, size, medium, provenance, and attribution confidence can move value materially versus median comps.

## Price Bands
- Under $1,000: 2.2% (4 sales)
- $1,000 to $10,000: 5% (9 sales)
- $10,000\+: 92.8% (168 sales)

## Recent Trend & Velocity
- Last 12 months sales: 11
- Previous 12 months sales: 6
- Recent 12 months median: $360,000
- Previous 12 months median: $113,400
- Median shift: 100%
- Latest sale date: 2025-12-04
- Days since latest sale: 76
- Market velocity: moderate

## Top Auction Houses
- Mallet Auction: 128 lots
- SBI Art Auction Co., Ltd.: 32 lots
- Christie's: 22 lots
- Sotheby's: 18 lots
- New Art Est\-Ouest Auctions: 9 lots
- Bonhams: 8 lots
- Ambrosiana Casa D'Aste: 3 lots
- 33 Auction: 2 lots
- Capitolium Art: 2 lots
- Capsule Gallery Auction: 2 lots

## Top Categories
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## Recent Sold Lots
1. 2025-12-04 | Sadamasa Motonaga \(1922\-2011\). 6 figures \(objects or shapes\). signé et daté | Christie's | €19,050
2. 2025-11-08 | UNTITLED | Tozai New Art Co Ltd | ¥1,550,000
3. 2025-11-08 | UNTITLED | Tozai New Art Co Ltd | N/A
4. 2025-07-17 | Untitled | Mallet Auction | ¥190,000
5. 2025-05-31 | UNTITLED | New Art Est\-Ouest Auctions | ¥750,000
6. 2025-05-31 | WORK | New Art Est\-Ouest Auctions | ¥950,000
7. 2025-05-15 | Untitled | Mallet Auction | ¥360,000
8. 2025-04-15 | MOTONAGA Sadamasa, Untitled | Ambrosiana Casa D'Aste | N/A
9. 2025-04-15 | MOTONAGA Sadamasa, Untitled | Ambrosiana Casa D'Aste | N/A
10. 2025-04-15 | MOTONAGA Sadamasa, Untitled | Ambrosiana Casa D'Aste | N/A
11. 2024-11-12 | Sadamasa Motonaga 元永定正 \| Untitled 無題 | Sotheby's | HK$840,000
12. 2024-10-10 | Golden round Silver round | Mallet Auction | ¥200,000
13. 2024-05-16 | Untitled | Mallet Auction | N/A
14. 2024-05-16 | Untitled | Mallet Auction | N/A
15. 2024-02-23 | From Two White Shapes by MOTONAGA Sadamasa | New Art Est\-Ouest Auctions | ¥50,000
16. 2023-12-20 | RED AND GRAY UPSIDE DOWN by MOTONAGA Sadamasa | New Art Est\-Ouest Auctions | HK$50,000
17. 2023-12-20 | WORK by MOTONAGA Sadamasa | New Art Est\-Ouest Auctions | HK$9,000
18. 2023-12-20 | WORK SET OF 4 by MOTONAGA Sadamasa | New Art Est\-Ouest Auctions | HK$24,000
19. 2023-12-02 | 元永定正 Sadamasa Motonaga | Ravenel | N/A
20. 2023-07-27 | Golden round Silver round | Mallet Auction | N/A
21. 2023-05-29 | SADAMASA MOTONAGA \(1922\-2011\) Work oil, synthetic resin on canvas laid on b | Christie's | HK$4,788,000
22. 2023-05-18 | Green oval | Mallet Auction | ¥440,000
23. 2022-09-08 | The heaping on the right is green | Mallet Auction | ¥720,000
24. 2022-09-08 | Untitled | Mallet Auction | ¥650,000

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