# Tomoko Sawada - Auction Profile

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Updated: 2026-05-04T18:43:46.141Z

## Summary
- Lots tracked: 23
- Lots with prices: 18
- First auction date: 2006-11-26
- Latest auction date: 2025-12-11
- Median realised price: $4,750
- Price range: $125 to $180,000

## Market Takeaway
Tomoko Sawada has 23 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $4,750. Category concentration is still broad. Last 12 months recorded 4 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 \($4,750\) as a typical result and the typical low/high band \($2,400 to $72,000\) 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: 5.6% (1 sales)
- $1,000 to $10,000: 44.4% (8 sales)
- $10,000\+: 50% (9 sales)

## Recent Trend & Velocity
- Last 12 months sales: 4
- Previous 12 months sales: 1
- Recent 12 months median: $1,500
- Previous 12 months median: $2,400
- Median shift: 0%
- Latest sale date: 2025-12-11
- Days since latest sale: 144
- Market velocity: steady

## Top Auction Houses
- Christie's: 8 lots
- Mallet Auction: 3 lots
- Leland Little Auctions: 2 lots
- Phillips: 2 lots
- Rago Arts and Auction Center: 2 lots
- Sotheby's: 2 lots
- Swann Auction Galleries: 2 lots
- Los Angeles Modern Auctions: 1 lots
- Piasa: 1 lots

## Top Categories
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## Recent Sold Lots
1. 2025-12-11 | Tomoko Sawada, Omiai | Los Angeles Modern Auctions | $1,700
2. 2025-11-19 | Tomoko Sawada \(1977\) School Days. | Piasa | N/A
3. 2025-11-04 | Tomoko Sawada, Omiai | Rago Arts and Auction Center | $1,500
4. 2025-11-04 | Tomoko Sawada, Bride | Rago Arts and Auction Center | $1,200
5. 2024-10-02 | Recruit/Black | Sotheby's | $2,400
6. 2023-10-05 | TOMOKO SAWADA \(1977\- \) Bride. | Swann Auction Galleries | $4,000
7. 2023-05-02 | Recruit/Black | Sotheby's | N/A
8. 2023-03-02 | Masquerade | Mallet Auction | N/A
9. 2020-03-13 | Tomoko Sawada \(b. 1977\), Bride | Leland Little Auctions | $2,800
10. 2020-03-13 | Tomoko Sawada \(b. 1977\), cover/Face | Leland Little Auctions | $4,400
11. 2018-05-18 | TOMOKO SAWADA \- School Days, 2004 | Phillips | N/A
12. 2016-10-25 | TOMOKO SAWADA \(1977\- \) Bride. | Swann Auction Galleries | $4,750
13. 2012-12-13 | TOMOKO SAWADA | Phillips | £125
14. 2010-09-10 | Tomoko Sawada, Masquerade | Mallet Auction | ¥80,000
15. 2010-09-10 | Tomoko Sawada, Recruit/ Black | Mallet Auction | ¥50,000
16. 2010-05-30 | TOMOKO SAWADA | Christie's | N/A
17. 2008-12-01 | TOMOKO SAWADA | Christie's | HK$75,000
18. 2007-11-25 | TOMOKO SAWADA \(Born in 1977\) | Christie's | HK$162,500
19. 2007-05-27 | TOMOKO SAWADA \(Born in 1977, Japanese\) | Christie's | HK$48,000
20. 2007-05-27 | TOMOKO SAWADA \(Born in 1977, Japanese\) | Christie's | HK$36,000
21. 2007-05-27 | TOMOKO SAWADA \(Born in 1977, Japanese\) | Christie's | HK$180,000
22. 2006-11-26 | TOMOKO SAWADA | Christie's | HK$72,000
23. 2006-11-26 | TOMOKO SAWADA | Christie's | HK$33,600

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