# Sadamasa Motonaga - Auction Profile

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Updated: 2026-05-04T15:19:04.747Z

## Summary
- Lots tracked: 159
- Lots with prices: 119
- First auction date: 2007-11-30
- Latest auction date: 2025-12-04
- Median realised price: $400,000
- Price range: $125 to $10,500,000

## Market Takeaway
Sadamasa Motonaga shows deep auction liquidity with 159 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $400,000. Category concentration is still broad or sparse. Last 12 months recorded 2 sales. Latest recorded sale: 2025-12-04.

## How To Read This Data
- Use the median \($400,000\) as a typical result; many comparable sales cluster between $95,000 and $850,000.
- 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: 3.4% (4 sales)
- $1,000 to $10,000: 3.4% (4 sales)
- $10,000\+: 93.3% (111 sales)

## Recent Trend & Velocity
- Last 12 months sales: 2
- Previous 12 months sales: 2
- Recent 12 months median: $19,050
- Previous 12 months median: $113,400
- Median shift: 0%
- Latest sale date: 2025-12-04
- Days since latest sale: 76
- Market velocity: steady

## Top Auction Houses
- Mallet Auction: 109 lots
- Christie's: 22 lots
- Bonhams: 8 lots
- Sotheby's: 5 lots
- 33 Auction: 2 lots
- Capsule Gallery Auction: 2 lots
- Phillips: 2 lots
- Bill Hood & Sons Arts & Antiques Auctions: 1 lots
- Cottone Auctions: 1 lots
- Hindman: 1 lots

## Top Categories
- N/A

## Recent Sold Lots
1. 2025-12-04 | Sadamasa Motonaga \(1922\-2011\). 6 figures \(objects or shapes\). signé et daté | Christie's | €19,050
2. 2024-11-12 | Sadamasa Motonaga 元永定正 \| Untitled 無題 | Sotheby's | HK$840,000
3. 2023-12-02 | 元永定正 Sadamasa Motonaga | Ravenel | N/A
4. 2023-05-29 | SADAMASA MOTONAGA \(1922\-2011\) Work oil, synthetic resin on canvas laid on b | Christie's | HK$4,788,000
5. 2022-05-20 | SADAMASA MOTONAGA \(JAPAN, 1922\-2011\) | Thomaston Place Auction Galleries | $500
6. 2021-05-04 | Sadamasa Motonaga \(Japanese, 1922\-2011\) Untitled, 1968 | Hindman | $35,000
7. 2020-08-19 | SADAMASA MOTONAGA \- UNTITLED | Capsule Gallery Auction | $125
8. 2020-08-19 | SADAMASA MOTONAGA \- UNTITLED | Capsule Gallery Auction | $150
9. 2019-12-05 | Sadamasa Motonaga, Untitled | Mallet Auction | N/A
10. 2019-05-26 | SADAMASA MOTONAGA \(JAPAN, 1922\-2011\) Work enamel on paper 27 x 24 cm. \(10 5/8 x 9 1/2 in.\) | Christie's | HK$162,500
11. 2017-05-28 | SADAMASA MOTONAGA \(JAPAN, 1922\-2011\) DEW \(DROP\) IS THREE | Christie's | N/A
12. 2017-01-19 | SADAMASA MOTONAGA \| Untitled | Sotheby's | HK$500,000
13. 2016-12-08 | Sadamasa Motonaga, Work | Mallet Auction | N/A
14. 2015-09-17 | Sadamasa Motonaga, Red and Black of White Lights/ It Seems Colored Smoke is Emerging/ Colored Balls in the Gray/ Two Shapes are Lines in Circles/ Red Lines to the Triangle Only/ Overlaps in Three Colors and Triangles \(Xaravel P.42, P.43, P.44, P.68, | Mallet Auction | ¥460,000
15. 2025-12-04 | Sadamasa Motonaga \(1922\-2011\). Work. | Christie's | €33,020
16. 2024-04-02 | SADAMASA MOTONAGA \(1922\-2011\) Perfect Shape and Shape acrylic on canvas 50 | Christie's | HK$113,400
17. 2024-01-20 | SADAMASA MOTONAGA \| Work | 33 Auction | N/A
18. 2024-01-20 | SADAMASA MOTONAGA \| No | 33 Auction | N/A
19. 2023-11-25 | Sadamasa Motonaga \(1922\-2011\) Golden connection on top | Bonhams | HK$30,000
20. 2023-05-20 | Sadamasa Motonaga Painting, 46"W | Palm Beach Modern Auctions | $13,000
21. 2023-04-20 | SADAMASA MOTONAGA \(1922\-2011\) First, Green silksceen print 36.5 x 48 cm. \(1 | Christie's | HK$3,276
22. 2022-12-13 | SADAMASA MOTONAGA \(1922\-2011\) Untitled; Untitled silkscreen on paper image | Christie's | HK$4,788
23. 2021-01-21 | Sadamasa Motonaga \(Japanese, 1922\-2011\) Untitled | Cottone Auctions | $4,000
24. 2020-10-22 | Sadamasa Motonaga \(Japanese, 1922\-2011\) Untitled 1961 | Bonhams | N/A

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