# Yacai Qiu - Auction Profile

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Updated: 2026-07-27T06:27:54.387Z

## Summary
- Lots tracked: 72
- Lots with prices: 57
- First auction date: 2005-11-27
- Latest auction date: 2024-12-12
- Median realised price: $237,500
- Price range: $13,750 to $1,240,000

## Market Takeaway
Yacai Qiu has 72 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $237,500. 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 \($237,500\) as a typical result and the typical low/high band \($137,500 to $391,500\) 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: 0% (0 sales)
- $1,000 to $10,000: 0% (0 sales)
- $10,000\+: 100% (57 sales)

## Recent Trend & Velocity
- Last 12 months sales: 0
- Previous 12 months sales: 1
- Recent 12 months median: $0
- Previous 12 months median: $126,000
- Median shift: 0%
- Latest sale date: 2024-12-12
- Days since latest sale: 592
- Market velocity: inactive

## Top Auction Houses
- Christie's: 54 lots
- Sotheby's: 18 lots

## Top Categories
- N/A

## Recent Sold Lots
1. 2024-12-12 | QIU YACAI \(CHIU YA\-TSAI, 1949\-2013\). Gentleman in Brown. Oil on canvas, fra | Christie's | HK$126,000
2. 2022-12-13 | QIU YACAI \(CH'IU YA\-TS'AI, 1949\-2013\) Red oil on canvas 131.3 x 79 cm. \(51 | Christie's | HK$138,600
3. 2020-07-14 | QIU YACAI \(CH'IU YA\-TS'AI, 1949\-2013\) Untitled | Christie's | HK$212,500
4. 2019-11-24 | QIU YACAI \(CH'IU YA\-TS'AI, 1949\-2013\) Untitled oil on canvas 120 x 81 cm. \(47 1/4 x 31 7/8 in.\) | Christie's | N/A
5. 2019-11-24 | QIU YACAI \(CH'IU YA\-TS'AI, 1949\-2013\) Untitled oil on canvas 129.5 x 96 cm. \(51 x 37 3/4 in.\) | Christie's | N/A
6. 2019-06-20 | QIU YACAI \(CH’IU YA TS’AI, 1949\-2013\) Girl with No Face oil on canvas 76 x 50 ¾ in. \(193 x 128.9 cm.\) | Christie's | £32,500
7. 2019-05-26 | QIU YACAI \(CH'IU YA\-TS'AI, TAIWAN, 1949\-2013\) Shy Teenager oil on canvas 131 x 96.8 cm. \(51 5/8 x 38 1/8 in.\) | Christie's | N/A
8. 2019-05-26 | QIU YACAI \(CH'IU YA TS'AI, TAIWAN, 1949\-2013\) Poet in Red oil on canvas 156 x 127 cm. \(61 3/8 x 50 in.\) | Christie's | N/A
9. 2018-05-27 | QIU YACAI \(CH'IU YA\-TS'AI, TAIWAN, 1949\-2013\) \- A Man in a Blue Background | Christie's | N/A
10. 2017-05-28 | QIU YACAI \(CH'IU YA\-TS'AI, TAIWAN, \- A FINE YOUNG MAN | Christie's | HK$350,000
11. 2015-05-31 | QIU YACAI \(CH'IU YA\-TS'AI, Chinese, Untitled | Christie's | HK$687,500
12. 2015-05-31 | QIU YACAI \(CH'IU YA\-TS'AI, Chinese, The Forceful Man | Christie's | HK$475,000
13. 2015-05-31 | QIU YACAI \(CH'IU YA\-TS'AI, Chinese, Quietness | Christie's | HK$1,240,000
14. 2015-05-31 | QIU YACAI \(CH'IU YA\-TS'AI, Chinese, Man Wearing a Patterned Hat | Christie's | HK$750,000
15. 2014-01-23 | Qiu Yacai \(Chiu Ya\-Tsai\) | Sotheby's | HK$250,000
16. 2013-05-26 | QIU YACAI | Christie's | N/A
17. 2013-05-26 | QIU YACAI | Christie's | N/A
18. 2013-05-26 | QIU YACAI | Christie's | N/A
19. 2013-05-26 | QIU YACAI | Christie's | N/A
20. 2012-05-27 | QIU YACAI | Christie's | HK$275,000
21. 2012-05-27 | QIU YACAI | Christie's | HK$200,000
22. 2011-11-27 | QIU YACAI | Christie's | HK$112,500
23. 2011-11-27 | QIU YACAI | Christie's | HK$400,000
24. 2011-11-27 | QIU YACAI | Christie's | HK$437,500

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