# Shu Tanaka - Auction Profile

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Updated: 2026-05-16T06:40:52.103Z

## Summary
- Lots tracked: 20
- Lots with prices: 11
- First auction date: 2008-11-19
- Latest auction date: 2024-01-09
- Median realised price: $650
- Price range: $300 to $1,800

## Market Takeaway
Shu Tanaka has 20 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $650. Category concentration is still broad. Recent 12-month volume is still light. 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 \($650\) as a typical result and the typical low/high band \($400 to $850\) 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: 81.8% (9 sales)
- $1,000 to $10,000: 18.2% (2 sales)
- $10,000\+: 0% (0 sales)

## Recent Trend & Velocity
- Last 12 months sales: 0
- Previous 12 months sales: 0
- Recent 12 months median: $0
- Previous 12 months median: $0
- Median shift: N/A
- Latest sale date: 2024-01-09
- Days since latest sale: 853
- Market velocity: inactive

## Top Auction Houses
- Ader: 7 lots
- Millon & Associes: 4 lots
- Christophe Joron\-Derem: 2 lots
- Willow Auction House: 2 lots
- Akiba Galleries: 1 lots
- Christie's: 1 lots
- Cleveland Auction Company: 1 lots
- DuMouchelles: 1 lots
- Hermann Historica GmbH: 1 lots

## Top Categories
- N/A

## Recent Sold Lots
1. 2024-01-09 | Shu Tanaka \(Japan b. 1908\) Abstract Painting | Akiba Galleries | $1,800
2. 2023-01-30 | Shu Tanaka \- "Fleur idyllique", dated 1963 | Hermann Historica GmbH | €850
3. 2022-03-10 | Shu Tanaka Oil on Canvas "Printemps" | Willow Auction House | $800
4. 2022-03-10 | Shu Tanaka Oil on Canvas "Sur Le Mur" | Willow Auction House | $650
5. 2017-05-28 | SHU TANAKA \(JAPAN, B. 1908\) UNTITLED | Christie's | N/A
6. 2015-06-10 | Shu Tanaka \(1908\-?\) \- Paysage Huile sur toile. Signé en bas à gauche 55 x 75 cm | Christophe Joron\-Derem | N/A
7. 2015-06-10 | Shu Tanaka \(1908\-?\) \- La nuit orientale Huile sur toile. Signé en bas à droite. 61,4 x 21 cm | Christophe Joron\-Derem | N/A
8. 2011-08-14 | SHU TANAKA, OIL ON CANVAS, 32" X 39", 'GARDEN':" | DuMouchelles | N/A
9. 2010-11-25 | Shu TANAKA \(Tokyo 1908\) Hautes Pyrenées Huile sur | Millon & Associes | €1,638
10. 2010-11-25 | Shu TANAKA \(Tokyo 1908\) Surface de l'eau Huile sur | Millon & Associes | N/A
11. 2010-11-25 | Shu TANAKA \(Tokyo 1908\) L'ombre Huile sur toile 54 | Millon & Associes | N/A
12. 2010-11-25 | Shu TANAKA \(Tokyo 1908\) Ile de France Huile sur | Millon & Associes | N/A
13. 2010-03-31 | Shu TANAKA \(né en 1908\) Composition abstraite | Ader | N/A
14. 2010-03-31 | Shu TANAKA \(né en 1908\) Composition abstraite | Ader | €500
15. 2009-10-25 | Shu Tanaka Oil Painting 20th c. Japanese School | Cleveland Auction Company | N/A
16. 2009-04-29 | Shu TANAKA \(né en 1908\) Paysage Huile sur toile. | Ader | €300
17. 2009-04-29 | Shu TANAKA \(né en 1908\) Brouillard Huile sur | Ader | €350
18. 2009-04-29 | Shu TANAKA \(né en 1908\) Matin Huile sur toile. | Ader | €500
19. 2009-04-29 | Shu TANAKA \(né en 1908\) Village fleurie Huile sur | Ader | €400
20. 2008-11-19 | Shu TANAKA \(né en 1908\) Dans la forêt. Huile sur | Ader | €744

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