# Takao Tanabe - Auction Profile

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Updated: 2026-05-16T07:43:32.039Z

## Summary
- Lots tracked: 49
- Lots with prices: 37
- First auction date: 2007-04-22
- Latest auction date: 2025-05-29
- Median realised price: $1,200
- Price range: $122 to $31,200

## Market Takeaway
Takao Tanabe shows developing auction liquidity with 49 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $1,200. Category concentration is still broad or sparse. Last 12 months recorded 1 sales. Latest recorded sale: 2025-05-29.

## How To Read This Data
- Use the median \($1,200\) as a typical result; many comparable sales cluster between $600 and $10,030.
- 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: 48.6% (18 sales)
- $1,000 to $10,000: 24.3% (9 sales)
- $10,000\+: 27% (10 sales)

## Recent Trend & Velocity
- Last 12 months sales: 1
- Previous 12 months sales: 3
- Recent 12 months median: $30,000
- Previous 12 months median: $1,750
- Median shift: 100%
- Latest sale date: 2025-05-29
- Days since latest sale: 265
- Market velocity: steady

## Top Auction Houses
- Waddington's: 32 lots
- Bonhams: 6 lots
- Westbridge Fine Art Auction House: 4 lots
- Crescent City Auction Gallery: 1 lots
- Joyner: 1 lots
- Levis Auction: 1 lots
- Roseberys: 1 lots
- Sotheby's: 1 lots
- Vallot Auctioneers: 1 lots
- Walker's: 1 lots

## Top Categories
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## Recent Sold Lots
1. 2024-09-26 | Takao Tanabe \(b. 1926\), OLYMPIA | Waddington's | CA$1,750
2. 2025-05-29 | Takao Tanabe \(b. 1926\), SUMMER FOOTHILLS 5/82, 1982 | Waddington's | CA$30,000
3. 2024-11-28 | Takao Tanabe \(b. 1926\), COMES NOW THE SPRING WITH ALL HER FAIR ARRAYS, 1958 | Waddington's | CA$21,250
4. 2024-03-08 | Takao Tanabe \(Canadian, b. 1926\), "Abstract," 1973, H.\- 19 in., W.\- 20 3/4 in., Framed\- H.\- 26 1/4 in., W.\- 27 1/2 in. | Crescent City Auction Gallery | $750
5. 2023-11-23 | Takao Tanabe, Cook Channel, Nootka Sound, 1991; | Roseberys | £250
6. 2021-06-26 | Takao Tanabe \- Marble Island, QCI | Westbridge Fine Art Auction House | CA$1,200
7. 2020-12-22 | TAKAO TANABE \(CANADIAN, BORN 1926\) | Vallot Auctioneers | $800
8. 2018-10-28 | Takao Tanabe \- Boats on Beach | Westbridge Fine Art Auction House | N/A
9. 2018-09-23 | Takao Tanabe \- Boats on Beach | Westbridge Fine Art Auction House | N/A
10. 2018-06-28 | Takao Tanabe \- Tower of St. Mary le Bow, London | Westbridge Fine Art Auction House | CA$750
11. 2017-10-26 | TAKAO TANABE \(CANADIAN, 1926\-\), UNTITLED \(NOCTURNE\), LITHOGRAPH; SIGNED AND NUMBERED 14/15 IN PENCIL \(Image, 20” x 27.5”\) \(Sheet, 23” x 28.5”\) UNFRAMED, SHRINK WRAPPED. | Waddington's | CA$480
12. 2017-03-11 | TAKAO TANABE, HILL NEAR BOWDON, lithograph, plate 16.5 ins x 25 ins; 60.7 cms x 76.2 cms | Waddington's | N/A
13. 2016-05-30 | TAKAO TANABE, BANFF, THE LAND: 17\-73, acrylic on canvas, 33 ins x 56 ins; 83.8 cms x 142.2 cms | Waddington's | CA$24,000
14. 2016-05-30 | TAKAO TANABE, THE LAND /16, acrylic on canvas, 52 ins x 66 ins; 167.6 cms x 132.1 cms | Waddington's | CA$31,200
15. 2016-02-25 | TAKAO TANABE \(CANADIAN, 1926\-\), AFTER THE HARVEST, COLOUR LITHOGRAPH; NUMBERED 39/75 LOWER LEFT; SIGNED AND DATED ‘76 LOWER RIGHT; TITLED TO GALLERY LABEL VERSO \(Image, 19” x 16”\) | Waddington's | CA$276
16. 2015-11-23 | TAKAO TANABE, SCINTILLA, oil on canvas, 18 ins x 34 ins; 45.7 cms x 86.4 cms | Waddington's | CA$8,260
17. 2015-11-23 | TAKAO TANABE, HERE & THERE A DEWDROP GLISTENING, oil on canvas, 35.75 ins x 26 ins; 90.8 cms x 66 cms | Waddington's | CA$8,260
18. 2015-09-24 | TAKAO TANABE, R.C.A., SKINCUTTLE BAY, 1986, lithograph, Sheet 23.5 ins x 35 ins; 59.7 cms x 83.8 cms | Waddington's | CA$600
19. 2015-03-05 | TAKAO TANABE, A SPACE BETWEEN SUN & SEA, casein on paper, 10.5 ins x 22.5 ins; 26.7 cms x 57.2 cms | Waddington's | CA$1,500
20. 2014-11-24 | TAKAO TANABE, UNTITLED, gouache, laid down on card, 10.75 ins x 13.75 ins; 27.3 cms x 34.9 cms | Waddington's | CA$3,068
21. 2014-11-24 | TAKAO TANABE, THE FOOTHILLS, acrylic on canvas, 55 ins x 72 ins; 139.7 cms x 182.9 cms | Waddington's | CA$23,600
22. 2014-09-18 | TAKAO TANABE, TREES AND ROCKS, watercolour and ink, 21.75 ins x 15 ins; 55.2 cms x 38.1 cms | Waddington's | N/A
23. 2014-09-18 | TAKAO TANABE, MOUNTAIN LANDSCAPE, watercolour, 11 ins x 15.25 ins; 27.9 cms x 38.7 cms | Waddington's | N/A
24. 2014-05-26 | TAKAO TANABE, DOZOA, BLUE BLAST, oil on canvas, 36 ins x 34 ins; 91.4 cms x 86.4 cms | Waddington's | CA$15,340

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