# Nobuo Sekine - Auction Profile

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Updated: 2026-05-04T15:11:45.943Z

## Summary
- Lots tracked: 151
- Lots with prices: 121
- First auction date: 2007-11-30
- Latest auction date: 2025-12-04
- Median realised price: $360,000
- Price range: $2,250 to $4,300,000

## Market Takeaway
Nobuo Sekine shows deep auction liquidity with 151 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $360,000. Category concentration is still broad or sparse. Last 12 months recorded 1 sales. Latest recorded sale: 2025-12-04.

## How To Read This Data
- Use the median \($360,000\) as a typical result; many comparable sales cluster between $160,000 and $600,000.
- 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: 0% (0 sales)
- $1,000 to $10,000: 4.1% (5 sales)
- $10,000\+: 95.9% (116 sales)

## Recent Trend & Velocity
- Last 12 months sales: 1
- Previous 12 months sales: 7
- Recent 12 months median: $800,000
- Previous 12 months median: $600,000
- Median shift: 33.3%
- Latest sale date: 2025-12-04
- Days since latest sale: 76
- Market velocity: steady

## Top Auction Houses
- Mallet Auction: 126 lots
- Christie's: 9 lots
- New Art Est\-Ouest Auctions: 4 lots
- Bonhams: 3 lots
- Sotheby's: 3 lots
- Hindman: 2 lots
- Aste Boetto SRL: 1 lots
- Dorotheum: 1 lots
- Henry's Auktionshaus: 1 lots
- Sala Retiro Subastas: 1 lots

## Top Categories
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## Recent Sold Lots
1. 2025-12-04 | Nobuo Sekine\_G15\-21 Inside a Circle | Mallet Auction | ¥800,000
2. 2024-12-12 | G60\-35 Field of Light | Mallet Auction | ¥1,800,000
3. 2024-12-12 | G6\-12 Six position\[s\] | Mallet Auction | ¥500,000
4. 2024-11-20 | Nobuo Sekine | Dorotheum | €90,000
5. 2024-08-31 | WORK G6\-260 | New Art Est\-Ouest Auctions | ¥600,000
6. 2024-08-31 | WORK G8\-28 | New Art Est\-Ouest Auctions | ¥650,000
7. 2024-03-07 | Inlaid | Mallet Auction | N/A
8. 2024-03-07 | Informel | Mallet Auction | N/A
9. 2023-12-14 | G6\-12 Six position\[s\] | Mallet Auction | N/A
10. 2023-10-05 | Phase of Nothingness\-Skin 14 | Mallet Auction | ¥1,400,000
11. 2023-03-02 | G6\-229 Tower between the Waves | Mallet Auction | ¥420,000
12. 2022-12-29 | Nobuo Sekine, 1942\-2019, G\-15\-296 Phase conception | Henry's Auktionshaus | €3,500
13. 2022-11-17 | Nobuo Sekine \(Japanese, 1942\-2019\) Phase Conception G30\-261 \(framed 40 1/4 x 33 in\) | Bonhams | $8,500
14. 2022-11-17 | Nobuo Sekine \(Japanese, 1942\-2019\) Phase Conception G50\-216 \(framed 50 1/2 x 40 3/4 in\) | Bonhams | $8,500
15. 2022-05-29 | UNTITLED | New Art Est\-Ouest Auctions | N/A
16. 2022-05-26 | Nobuo Sekine \(1942\-2019\) Phase Conception\-Letter 'T' \(G6\-117\) | Bonhams | HK$32,000
17. 2022-05-19 | G3\-61 Shadow of the Moon | Mallet Auction | ¥310,000
18. 2022-05-19 | G5\-142 Shadow of the Moon | Mallet Auction | ¥440,000
19. 2022-05-19 | Informel | Mallet Auction | ¥100,000
20. 2022-05-11 | Nobuo Sekine \(Japanese, b. 1943\) Phase Conception G15\-318 Shaken Heart, 1993 | Hindman | $4,500
21. 2022-05-11 | Nobuo Sekine \(Japanese, b. 1943\) Phase Conception G60\-63 Mount Fuji, 2009 | Hindman | $10,000
22. 2022-03-03 | G8\-108 Project of Flower | Mallet Auction | ¥620,000
23. 2021-12-09 | G8\-314 apple | Mallet Auction | N/A
24. 2021-07-22 | G30\-292 Two squares | Mallet Auction | ¥2,000,000

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