# Yu Youhan - Auction Profile

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Updated: 2026-05-26T10:02:02.811Z

## Summary
- Lots tracked: 50
- Lots with prices: 38
- First auction date: 2006-09-20
- Latest auction date: 2025-04-03
- Median realised price: $850,000
- Price range: $360 to $14,100,000

## Market Takeaway
Yu Youhan has 50 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $850,000. 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 \($850,000\) as a typical result and the typical low/high band \($350,000 to $3,620,000\) 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: 2.6% (1 sales)
- $1,000 to $10,000: 2.6% (1 sales)
- $10,000\+: 94.7% (36 sales)

## Recent Trend & Velocity
- Last 12 months sales: 0
- Previous 12 months sales: 2
- Recent 12 months median: $0
- Previous 12 months median: $647,700
- Median shift: 0%
- Latest sale date: 2025-04-03
- Days since latest sale: 418
- Market velocity: inactive

## Top Auction Houses
- Christie's: 22 lots
- Sotheby's: 19 lots
- Bonhams: 2 lots
- Heritage Auctions: 2 lots
- Poly Auction Hong Kong: 2 lots
- Artcurial: 1 lots
- Lyon & Turnbull: 1 lots
- RoGallery: 1 lots

## Top Categories
- N/A

## Recent Sold Lots
1. 2012-11-29 | YU YOUHAN \(CHINESE B.1943\) THE LONG MARCH 96.5cm x 117cm \(38in x 46in\) | Lyon & Turnbull | N/A
2. 2025-04-03 | YU YOUHAN \(1943\-2023\). Circle 1986\-24. acrylic on paper mounted on canvas10 | Christie's | N/A
3. 2025-03-30 | Yu Youhan 余友涵 \| 2006.1 | Sotheby's | HK$647,700
4. 2023-07-13 | Yu Youhan \(Chinese, b. 1943\) Carp, 1961 Ink on paper 27\-3/4 x 17\-1/2 inches \(70. | Heritage Auctions | $360
5. 2021-04-21 | Abstract 05.4 | Poly Auction Hong Kong | HK$1,800,000
6. 2021-04-21 | Abstract 1990\-10 | Poly Auction Hong Kong | HK$3,800,000
7. 2020-12-03 | YU YOUHAN \(B. 1943\) The People are the Heroes of Their Time I\-3 acrylic on | Christie's | HK$850,000
8. 2020-04-30 | YU YOUHAN \(B. 1943\) Untitled | Christie's | $15,000
9. 2019-04-01 | YU YOUHAN \| Mao | Sotheby's | HK$800,000
10. 2019-03-08 | YU YOUHAN \(CHINESE, B. 1943\) WHEN I DRIVE A FLOWER BICYCLE, I WILL HAVE A GOOD F | Heritage Auctions | N/A
11. 2018-11-26 | YU YOUHAN \(B. 1943\) Yi Mengshan 02 2002 signed and dated 2002.10; dated | Bonhams | HK$1,875,000
12. 2018-09-21 | YU YOUHAN \(CHINA, B. 1943\) \- Ah! We Series No. 13 – Bixie | Christie's | N/A
13. 2018-05-27 | YU YOUHAN \(CHINA, B. 1943\) \- Untitled | Christie's | HK$812,500
14. 2018-04-01 | YU YOUHAN \| Chairman Mao and Statue of Liberty | Sotheby's | HK$650,000
15. 2018-03-31 | YU YOUHAN \| Abstract 1988\-1 | Sotheby's | HK$13,000,000
16. 2017-10-01 | YU YOUHAN \| 1991\-8 | Sotheby's | HK$1,750,000
17. 2017-05-27 | YU YOUHAN \(CHINA, B. 1943\) Abstract 1990\-1 | Christie's | N/A
18. 2017-05-27 | YU YOUHAN \(CHINA, B. 1943\) ABSTRACT 1991\-2 | Christie's | HK$4,860,000
19. 2015-10-03 | Yu Youhan \(b. 1943\) Mao | Bonhams | HK$1,360,000
20. 2015-04-05 | YU YOUHAN \| Four Women | Sotheby's | HK$687,500
21. 2015-04-04 | YU YOUHAN \| 1986\-3 | Sotheby's | HK$3,920,000
22. 2013-04-05 | YU  YOUHAN | Sotheby's | HK$275,000
23. 2013-04-05 | YU  YOUHAN | Sotheby's | HK$350,000
24. 2012-11-08 | Yu Youhan, When I Drive a Flower Bicycle, Silkscreen | RoGallery | N/A

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