# Shusaku Arakawa - Auction Profile

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Updated: 2026-04-29T14:36:28.266Z

## Summary
- Lots tracked: 196
- Lots with prices: 110
- First auction date: 2001-11-01
- Latest auction date: 2026-01-20
- Median realised price: $550
- Price range: $20 to $350,000

## Market Takeaway
Shusaku Arakawa shows deep auction liquidity with 195 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $550. Category concentration is still broad or sparse. Last 12 months recorded 7 sales. Latest recorded sale: 2025-12-06.

## How To Read This Data
- Use the median \($550\) as a typical result; many comparable sales cluster between $240 and $30,000.
- 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: 58.7% (64 sales)
- $1,000 to $10,000: 8.3% (9 sales)
- $10,000\+: 33% (36 sales)

## Recent Trend & Velocity
- Last 12 months sales: 7
- Previous 12 months sales: 19
- Recent 12 months median: $200
- Previous 12 months median: $240
- Median shift: 0%
- Latest sale date: 2025-12-06
- Days since latest sale: 74
- Market velocity: steady

## Top Auction Houses
- Christie's: 22 lots
- Sotheby's: 16 lots
- Mallet Auction: 14 lots
- RoGallery: 10 lots
- Bonhams: 8 lots
- Cornette de Saint\-Cyr: 7 lots
- DUMBO Auctions: 7 lots
- Hidden Treasures Antiques & Fine Arts: 6 lots
- Rachel Davis Fine Arts: 6 lots
- Sala Retiro Subastas: 6 lots

## Top Categories
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## Recent Sold Lots
1. 2025-12-06 | Shusaku Arakawa \(1936 Nagoya \- New York City 2010\) | AaG Auktionshaus am Grunewald | N/A
2. 2025-12-05 | Shusaku Arakawa \(1936 Nagoya – New York 2010\) – Ohne Titel \(Untitled\) | Karl & Faber | N/A
3. 2025-12-05 | Shusaku Arakawa \(1936 Nagoya – New York 2010\) – „\[Front and Back\]“ \("\[Front and Back\]"\) | Karl & Faber | N/A
4. 2025-05-31 | Shusaku Arakawa \(Japanese, 1936\-2010\) lithograph | Rachel Davis Fine Arts | $170
5. 2025-05-31 | Shusaku Arakawa, Untitled, 1963 | Lempertz | N/A
6. 2025-05-27 | Shusaku Arakawa \(1936\-2010\) Landscape Shusaku Arakawa \(1936\-2010\) Landscap | Christie's | €23,940
7. 2025-05-23 | Shusaku Arakawa, Living Room | Rago Arts and Auction Center | $200
8. 2024-11-27 | SHUSAKU ARAKAWA \(193 \-2010\) | Gray's Auctioneers | $550
9. 2024-11-21 | Shusaku Arakawa, Derrière le Miroir no. 252 | Roseberys | £240
10. 2024-11-08 | Shusaku Arakawa, Tomb of Chance 2 | Toomey & Co. Auctioneers | $400
11. 2024-09-26 | Shusaku Arakawa \(Japanese, 1936\-2010\) Websters New Twentieth Century Dictionary, 1965 | Freeman’s \| Hindman | $950
12. 2024-07-30 | Shusaku Arakawa \(1936\-2010\) \- Untitled, from the series Bottomless | Hidden Treasures Antiques & Fine Arts | N/A
13. 2024-07-18 | Shusaku Arakawa \(Japanese, 1936\-2010\) Flash Gravity, 1977 | Hindman | N/A
14. 2024-07-18 | Shusaku Arakawa, aquatint etching, 1975\-76 | Millea Bros Ltd | $400
15. 2024-07-18 | Shusaku Arakawa, embossed lithograph, 1975 | Millea Bros Ltd | $150
16. 2024-06-25 | SHUSAKU ARAKAWA \(1936\-2010\), JAPANESE P | Historia Auctionata | €60
17. 2024-06-20 | Chain of Command | Sotheby's | $240
18. 2024-06-20 | And/Or in Profile | Sotheby's | $480
19. 2024-06-20 | No! Says the Room | Sotheby's | $360
20. 2024-06-10 | Shusaku Arakawa \- Munich Olympic Games, 1972 | TGP Auction | CHF 200
21. 2024-05-20 | Shusaku Arakawa \- Munich Olympic Games, 1972 | Hotel des Ventes De Bruxelles | N/A
22. 2024-04-28 | Shusaku Arakawa \- Munich Olympic Games, 1972 | Hotel des Ventes De Bruxelles | N/A
23. 2024-04-28 | Shusaku Arakawa \- Munich Olympic Games, 1972 | TGP Auction | N/A
24. 2024-03-27 | Shusaku Arakawa \- Munich Olympic Games, 1972 | TGP Auction | N/A

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