# Taro Okamoto - Auction Profile

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Updated: 2026-05-15T23:29:27.917Z

## Summary
- Lots tracked: 45
- Lots with prices: 33
- First auction date: 2007-12-01
- Latest auction date: 2025-11-08
- Median realised price: $260,000
- Price range: $70 to $2,500,000

## Market Takeaway
Taro Okamoto has 45 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $260,000. Category concentration is still broad. Last 12 months recorded 5 sales. 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 \($260,000\) as a typical result and the typical low/high band \($180,000 to $1,000,000\) 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: 6.1% (2 sales)
- $1,000 to $10,000: 0% (0 sales)
- $10,000\+: 93.9% (31 sales)

## Recent Trend & Velocity
- Last 12 months sales: 5
- Previous 12 months sales: 6
- Recent 12 months median: $180,000
- Previous 12 months median: $1,000,000
- Median shift: 0%
- Latest sale date: 2025-11-08
- Days since latest sale: 188
- Market velocity: steady

## Top Auction Houses
- Mallet Auction: 26 lots
- New Art Est\-Ouest Auctions: 12 lots
- Absolute Auction Gallery: 1 lots
- Asium: 1 lots
- Christie's: 1 lots
- Doebele Kunstauktionen: 1 lots
- Ripley Auctions: 1 lots
- RoGallery: 1 lots
- Tozai New Art Co Ltd: 1 lots

## Top Categories
- N/A

## Recent Sold Lots
1. 2025-11-08 | EMBODIMENT | Tozai New Art Co Ltd | ¥160,000
2. 2025-10-02 | Taro Okamoto\_Wind | Mallet Auction | ¥2,500,000
3. 2025-05-31 | SPACE | New Art Est\-Ouest Auctions | ¥180,000
4. 2025-05-31 | SUN | New Art Est\-Ouest Auctions | ¥200,000
5. 2025-05-31 | DREAM | New Art Est\-Ouest Auctions | ¥140,000
6. 2025-05-15 | Volants | Mallet Auction | ¥1,350,000
7. 2025-02-22 | POSITION Ⅵ | New Art Est\-Ouest Auctions | ¥190,000
8. 2024-12-12 | Volants | Mallet Auction | ¥1,000,000
9. 2024-10-10 | Volants | Mallet Auction | ¥1,250,000
10. 2024-07-18 | Commemorative photo OU\-01 | Mallet Auction | N/A
11. 2024-07-18 | Hiroshima | Mallet Auction | ¥180,000
12. 2024-03-07 | Hiroshima | Mallet Auction | ¥320,000
13. 2023-07-30 | RED | New Art Est\-Ouest Auctions | ¥170,000
14. 2023-03-02 | Volants | Mallet Auction | ¥1,000,000
15. 2023-01-25 | Taro Okamoto \(Japanese, 1911\-1996\) 1978 Medallion for Ophthalmology | Absolute Auction Gallery | N/A
16. 2022-09-24 | FACE | New Art Est\-Ouest Auctions | ¥266,200
17. 2022-09-24 | UNTITLED | New Art Est\-Ouest Auctions | ¥205,700
18. 2022-09-08 | Flower | Mallet Auction | ¥260,000
19. 2022-05-29 | SEKISHIN | New Art Est\-Ouest Auctions | N/A
20. 2022-05-29 | COMMEMORATIVE PHOTOGRAPH | New Art Est\-Ouest Auctions | N/A
21. 2022-05-29 | SUN | New Art Est\-Ouest Auctions | N/A
22. 2022-05-29 | SEASHORE | New Art Est\-Ouest Auctions | N/A
23. 2022-05-19 | Dog | Mallet Auction | ¥260,000
24. 2022-03-03 | Seashore | Mallet Auction | ¥320,000

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## JSON Source
https://appraisily.com/api/scraper-search/artists/taro-okamoto/seo-profile