# Noboru Sawai - Auction Profile

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Updated: 2026-05-02T01:28:14.765Z

## Summary
- Lots tracked: 16
- Lots with prices: 9
- First auction date: 2012-02-16
- Latest auction date: 2025-11-22
- Median realised price: $250
- Price range: $60 to $500

## Market Takeaway
Noboru Sawai has 16 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $250. 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 \($250\) as a typical result and the typical low/high band \($180 to $350\) 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: 100% (9 sales)
- $1,000 to $10,000: 0% (0 sales)
- $10,000\+: 0% (0 sales)

## Recent Trend & Velocity
- Last 12 months sales: 1
- Previous 12 months sales: 4
- Recent 12 months median: $180
- Previous 12 months median: $300
- Median shift: 0%
- Latest sale date: 2025-11-22
- Days since latest sale: 160
- Market velocity: steady

## Top Auction Houses
- 4th Meridian Fine Art: 7 lots
- Saskatchewan Network for Art Collecting: 3 lots
- Helios Auctions: 2 lots
- Waddington's: 2 lots
- Kavanagh Auctions: 1 lots
- Peter Estey Fine Art & Auctions: 1 lots

## Top Categories
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## Recent Sold Lots
1. 2024-09-22 | NOBORU SAWAI \- Antique Birdcage | Saskatchewan Network for Art Collecting | CA$300 | source: https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot-noboru-sawai-antique-birdcage-196-c-a9a42d4bdf
2. 2021-01-24 | Noboru Sawai, Antique Birdcage | 4th Meridian Fine Art | N/A
3. 2020-09-27 | Noboru Sawai, Antique Birdcage | 4th Meridian Fine Art | N/A
4. 2020-05-16 | NOBORU SAWAI \- Antique Birdcage | Saskatchewan Network for Art Collecting | N/A
5. 2025-11-22 | Noboru Sawai \(Japanese\-Canadian, 1931\-2016\) Signs of Zodiac Woodblock | Kavanagh Auctions | CA$180
6. 2024-11-10 | NOBORU SAWAI, CANADIAN, WOODBLOCK PRINT WITH INTERIOR SCENE AND SHUNGA | Helios Auctions | $125
7. 2024-11-10 | NOBORU SAWAI, CANADIAN, WOODBLOCK PRINT WITH INTERIOR SCENE AND SHUNGA | Helios Auctions | $500
8. 2024-09-22 | NOBORU SAWAI \- In the Garden | Saskatchewan Network for Art Collecting | CA$400
9. 2024-02-11 | Noboru Sawai, Antique Bird Cage, etching and intaglio. 1980 | 4th Meridian Fine Art | N/A | source: https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot-noboru-sawai-antique-bird-cage-etching-and-intaglio-1980-8-c-7ec468c9fb
10. 2022-05-29 | Noboru Sawai, Antique Birdcage | 4th Meridian Fine Art | N/A | source: https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot-noboru-sawai-antique-birdcage-34-c-1f746a4905
11. 2021-10-03 | Noboru Sawai "Antique Bird Cage" | 4th Meridian Fine Art | N/A
12. 2021-10-03 | Noboru Sawai "Northern Tribe" etching edition 10/75 | 4th Meridian Fine Art | CA$250
13. 2021-09-29 | Noboru Sawai \(Japanese / Canadian, b. 1931\) "Leda" | Peter Estey Fine Art & Auctions | N/A
14. 2019-10-03 | Noboru Sawai \(Canadian 1931 \- 2016\), Swan Lake \(Proof\) | 4th Meridian Fine Art | CA$350
15. 2016-07-07 | NOBORU SAWAI \(JAPANESE/CANADIAN, 1931\-\), BIRDS OF A FEATHER,1980; ANTIQUE BED, C. 1980; LEDA, 1980, THREE WOODCUTS WITH INTAGLIO; EACH ARTIST CHOPMARK, SIGNED AND NUMBERED 14/100, Largest Sheet and Smaller 23" x 17.5" — 58.4 x 44.5 cm. \(3 Pieces\) | Waddington's | CA$240
16. 2012-02-16 | NOBORU SAWAI \(JAPANESE/CANADIAN, 1931\-\) ANTIQUE | Waddington's | CA$60

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