# Roger Shimomura - Auction Profile

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Updated: 2026-05-04T16:25:38.259Z

## Summary
- Lots tracked: 41
- Lots with prices: 40
- First auction date: 2010-02-08
- Latest auction date: 2025-09-04
- Median realised price: $1,100
- Price range: $250 to $12,000

## Market Takeaway
Roger Shimomura has 41 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $1,100. 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 \($1,100\) as a typical result and the typical low/high band \($650 to $2,400\) 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: 37.5% (15 sales)
- $1,000 to $10,000: 60% (24 sales)
- $10,000\+: 2.5% (1 sales)

## Recent Trend & Velocity
- Last 12 months sales: 1
- Previous 12 months sales: 7
- Recent 12 months median: $12,000
- Previous 12 months median: $800
- Median shift: 100%
- Latest sale date: 2025-09-04
- Days since latest sale: 240
- Market velocity: steady

## Top Auction Houses
- Soulis Auctions: 9 lots
- MBA Seattle Auction LLC: 8 lots
- Bonhams: 5 lots
- Butterscotch Auction Gallery LLC: 3 lots
- Dirk Soulis Auctions: 2 lots
- Heritage Auctions: 2 lots
- Revere Auctions: 2 lots
- STAIR: 2 lots
- Caza Sikes: 1 lots
- Concept Art Gallery: 1 lots

## Top Categories
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## Recent Sold Lots
1. 2025-09-04 | Roger Shimomura "T.V. Victim" 1986 Acrylic on Canvas | MBA Seattle Auction LLC | $12,000
2. 2025-03-06 | Roger Shimomura, Yellow No Same | Toomey & Co. Auctioneers | $1,100
3. 2025-01-14 | ROGER SHIMOMURA \(B. 1939\) PRINT | Westport Auction | $250
4. 2024-12-11 | Roger Shimomura Serigraph | Caza Sikes | $1,152
5. 2024-12-05 | Roger Shimomura ''Yellow No Same No.3 & 6'' 1992 | MBA Seattle Auction LLC | $550
6. 2024-10-19 | Roger Shimomura \(American, 1939\- \) lithograph | Rachel Davis Fine Arts | $1,000
7. 2024-06-05 | Roger Shimomura \(b.1939\): Five Views of the Inscrutable Neighbor | STAIR | $500
8. 2024-06-05 | Roger Shimomura \(b.1939\): For Dorothea Lange | STAIR | $800
9. 2024-02-24 | ROGER SHIMOMURA \(B. 1939\) PENCIL SIGNED LITHOGRAPH | Dirk Soulis Auctions | $1,100
10. 2023-11-19 | \(2pc\) ROGER SHIMOMURA \(b. 1939\) | Butterscotch Auction Gallery LLC | $425
11. 2023-07-16 | ROGER YUTAKA SHIMOMURA \(b. 1939\) | Butterscotch Auction Gallery LLC | $550
12. 2023-07-16 | \(2pc\) ROGER SHIMOMURA \(b. 1939\) | Butterscotch Auction Gallery LLC | $600
13. 2023-06-20 | Roger Shimomura \(b. 1939\) Florence, South Carolina, 2002 Acrylic on canvas 20 x | Heritage Auctions | $2,800
14. 2023-06-16 | ROGER SHIMOMURA \(B. 1939\) PENCIL SIGNED LITHOGRAPH | Dirk Soulis Auctions | $1,300
15. 2023-03-10 | Roger Shimomura \(American b. 1939\), Rambo 12, Oil on canvas, 48 x 48 in \(121.9 x 121.9 cm\) | Weschler's | $3,600
16. 2022-09-29 | 2pc Roger Shimomura ''Five Signs on The Tokaido'' 1982 | MBA Seattle Auction LLC | $650
17. 2022-09-29 | Roger Shimomura ''Seven Views of a Japanese Restaurant" | MBA Seattle Auction LLC | $650
18. 2022-06-11 | Roger Shimomura 1994 orig serigraph Enter the Rice Cooker | Concept Art Gallery | $1,400
19. 2022-04-23 | ROGER SHIMOMURA \(B. 1939\) PENCIL SIGNED SERIGRAPH | Soulis Auctions | $850
20. 2022-04-23 | ROGER SHIMOMURA \(B. 1939\) SIGNED COLOR LITHOGRAPH | Soulis Auctions | $1,400
21. 2022-04-23 | ROGER SHIMOMURA \(B. 1939\) EXHIBITED ACRYLIC ON CANVAS | Soulis Auctions | $3,600
22. 2022-02-19 | ROGER SHIMOMURA \(B. 1939\) PENCIL SIGNED SERIGRAPH | Soulis Auctions | $2,200
23. 2022-02-19 | ROGER SHIMOMURA \(B. 1939\) PENCIL SIGNED SERIGRAPH | Soulis Auctions | $600
24. 2021-07-22 | Roger Shimomura ''Kabuki Party'' 1988 Silkscreen | MBA Seattle Auction LLC | $1,100

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