# Ruth Asawa - Auction Profile

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Updated: 2026-05-01T12:50:14.166Z

## Summary
- Lots tracked: 86
- Lots with prices: 80
- First auction date: 2002-11-21
- Latest auction date: 2025-11-16
- Median realised price: $42,700
- Price range: $218 to $4,095,000

## Market Takeaway
Ruth Asawa shows solid auction liquidity with 86 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $42,700. Category concentration is still broad or sparse. Last 12 months recorded 2 sales. Latest recorded sale: 2025-11-16.

## How To Read This Data
- Use the median \($42,700\) as a typical result; many comparable sales cluster between $2,684 and $300,000.
- 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: 10% (8 sales)
- $1,000 to $10,000: 26.3% (21 sales)
- $10,000\+: 63.7% (51 sales)

## Recent Trend & Velocity
- Last 12 months sales: 2
- Previous 12 months sales: 2
- Recent 12 months median: $6,250
- Previous 12 months median: $1,500
- Median shift: 100%
- Latest sale date: 2025-11-16
- Days since latest sale: 94
- Market velocity: steady

## Top Auction Houses
- Bonhams: 31 lots
- Christie's: 28 lots
- Sotheby's: 6 lots
- Wright: 4 lots
- Capo Auction: 3 lots
- Clars Auctions: 3 lots
- Keno Auctions: 2 lots
- Rago Arts and Auction Center: 2 lots
- Fine Estate Inc.: 1 lots
- Hill Auction Gallery: 1 lots

## Top Categories
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## Recent Sold Lots
1. 2025-11-16 | RUTH ASAWA WATERCOLOR PURPLE IRIS | Neely Auction | $6,250
2. 2025-05-16 | Epyphyllum | Sotheby's | $76,200
3. 2024-07-25 | RUTH ASAWA \(1926\-2013\) Untitled \(Flower\)1979 for Crown Zellerbach Corporation, cast by Berkeley Art Foundry, Berkeley, bronze bas\-relief, etched 'ASAWA' lower right and numbered '416' lower left \(from the edition of 2500\), further stamped on the r... | Bonhams | $1,500
4. 2024-02-28 | Ruth Asawa 1926\-2013 Untitled Flower Bronze SIGNED | Hill Auction Gallery | $1,700 | source: https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot-ruth-asawa-1926-2013-untitled-flower-bronze-signed-346-c-1f943f29c9
5. 2023-12-14 | Ruth Asawa \(American, 1926\-2013\) Desert Star \(P.004, Tied wire tree with asymmetrical five pointed star in center branching to an enclosed square\), 1987 | Hindman | $2,750
6. 2023-05-21 | Ruth Asawa \(American 1926\-2013\) | Fine Estate Inc. | $210,000
7. 2023-05-17 | RUTH ASAWA \(1926\-2013\) Untitled \(S.410, Hanging Seven\-Lobed, Three\-Part... | Christie's | $2,470,000
8. 2023-03-28 | Ruth Asawa \(1926\-2013\); Poppy; | Bonhams | $6,000
9. 2022-11-16 | RUTH ASAWA \(1926\-2013\) Untitled \(SF.005, Undulating Parallelograms with White '3' in Lower Right Corner\)circa 1951\-1952 | Bonhams | $85,000
10. 2022-09-29 | RUTH ASAWA \(1926\-2013\) Untitled \(PF.065, Succulent\) pen and ink on paper 15 | Christie's | $12,600
11. 2022-09-27 | Ruth Asawa \(1926\-2013\); Untitled \(Flower\); | Bonhams | $2,800
12. 2022-05-12 | RUTH ASAWA \(1926\-2013\) Untitled \(S.469, Hanging Two Complex Interlocking Fo | Christie's | $1,980,000
13. 2021-11-12 | RUTH ASAWA \(1926\-2013\) Untitled \(S.360, Hanging Single\-Section, Reversible | Christie's | $562,500
14. 2021-03-09 | Ruth Asawa \(1926\-2013\) Untitled \(S. 846, Freestanding Tied\-Wire, Closed Cen | Christie's | $966,000
15. 2021-02-19 | RUTH ASAWA \(1926\-2013\) Untitled \(S.788, Hanging Sphere\), circa 1960\-1969 | Bonhams | $38,000
16. 2020-12-03 | Ruth Asawa \(1926\-2013\) Untitled \[SF.005, Undulating Parallelograms with Whi | Christie's | N/A
17. 2020-10-07 | Ruth Asawa \(1926\-2013\) \- Untitled \(S.399, Hanging Tied Wire Open Center Six\-Branched Form Based on... | Christie's | $375,000
18. 2020-10-07 | Ruth Asawa \(1926\-2013\) \- Untitled \(S.753, Hanging Ten Interlocking Double Trumpets\) | Christie's | $1,050,000
19. 2020-09-16 | RUTH ASAWA \(1926\-2013\) Untitled \(PF.1123, Watermelon\), circa 1973 | Bonhams | $21,000
20. 2020-07-10 | Ruth Asawa \(1926\-2013\) \- Untitled \(S.402, Hanging Two Interlocked Spheres, Each Containing One... | Christie's | $639,000
21. 2020-07-01 | Ruth Asawa \(American, 1926\-2013\) Untitled \(S.408, Hanging Five\-Lobed, Two\-Part Form, with the Second and Third Lobes Attached by Chain and Interior Spheres in the First and Third Lobes\) circa 1953\-1954 | Bonhams | $1,800,000 | source: https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot-ruth-asawa-american-1926-2013-untitled-s-408-hanging-five-lobed-two-part-form-with-the-second-and-third-lobes-attached-by-chain-and-interior-spheres-in-the-first-and-third-lobes-circa-1953-1954-9-c-d3c426b89c
22. 2019-11-14 | Ruth Asawa \(1926\-2013\) \- Untitled \(S.387, Hanging Three Separate Layers of Three\-Lobed Forms\) | Christie's | $4,095,000
23. 2019-09-25 | Ruth Asawa \(1926\-2013\) | Bonhams | $462,575
24. 2019-05-19 | Ruth Asawa style woven copper floral form sculpture | Clars Auctions | $218

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