# Yuichi Inoue - Auction Profile

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Updated: 2026-04-28T20:35:19.504Z

## Summary
- Lots tracked: 22
- Lots with prices: 18
- First auction date: 2012-01-27
- Latest auction date: 2025-12-10
- Median realised price: $300,000
- Price range: $50 to $750,000

## Market Takeaway
Yuichi Inoue has 22 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $300,000. Category concentration is still broad. Last 12 months recorded 2 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 \($300,000\) as a typical result and the typical low/high band \($20,000 to $400,625\) 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: 16.7% (3 sales)
- $1,000 to $10,000: 5.6% (1 sales)
- $10,000\+: 77.8% (14 sales)

## Recent Trend & Velocity
- Last 12 months sales: 2
- Previous 12 months sales: 4
- Recent 12 months median: $20,000
- Previous 12 months median: $150
- Median shift: 100%
- Latest sale date: 2025-12-10
- Days since latest sale: 139
- Market velocity: steady

## Top Auction Houses
- Bonhams: 7 lots
- Christie's: 5 lots
- Antique Arena Inc: 3 lots
- Mallet Auction: 3 lots
- Sotheby's: 2 lots
- Rago Arts and Auction Center: 1 lots
- Van Ham Kunstauktionen: 1 lots

## Top Categories
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## Recent Sold Lots
1. 2025-11-20 | YU\-ICHI \(INOUE YUICHI\) \(1916\-1985\) Taka \(Falcon\) 37 1/4 x 55 7/8 in \(94.6 x 141.9 cm\) \(Executed in 1981\) | Bonhams | $20,000
2. 2024-12-03 | Yuichi Inoue \(1916\-1985\) Catalogue Raisonné Vol. 1\-3 \(Works 1949\-1985\)1998, 2000, 1996 | Bonhams | N/A
3. 2024-09-21 | JAPANESE INK CALLIGRAPHY PAINTING BY YUICHI INOUE | Antique Arena Inc | $50
4. 2024-08-04 | JAPANESE INK CALLIGRAPHY PAINTING BY YUICHI INOUE | Antique Arena Inc | $150
5. 2021-04-22 | Yuichi Inoue \(1916\-1985\) FUN | Bonhams | HK$400,000
6. 2018-11-26 | YUICHI INOUE \(1916\-1985\) Taru \(Content\) 1973 signed with one artist seal | Bonhams | HK$350,000
7. 2018-11-06 | YUICHI INOUE \(1916\-1985\) SHOKU \[BELONGING\], 1976 \| | Sotheby's | N/A
8. 2018-05-26 | YUICHI INOUE \(JAPAN, 1916\-1985\) \- Ryu \(Dragon\) | Christie's | HK$625,000
9. 2015-05-30 | YUICHI INOUE\(1916\-1985\) | Christie's | HK$750,000
10. 2025-12-10 | Yuichi Inoue, The Length of Buddha's Life | Rago Arts and Auction Center | $20,000
11. 2024-07-20 | JAPANESE INK CALLIGRAPHY PAINTING BY YUICHI INOUE | Antique Arena Inc | $200
12. 2023-11-25 | Yuichi Inoue \(1916\-1985\) Ichimo Shumo wo Hiku \(A Blind person leads many blind persons.\) | Bonhams | HK$150,000
13. 2023-05-27 | Yuichi Inoue \(1916\-1985\) Oto \(Sound\) | Bonhams | HK$170,000
14. 2021-05-25 | YUICHI INOUE \(1916\-1985\) \- Kan – A Frontier Pass | Christie's | N/A
15. 2020-11-19 | Hydrangea | Mallet Auction | ¥320,000
16. 2019-05-27 | Yuichi Inoue \(Japanese, 1916\-1985\) 井上有一 No \(Whereupon\) | Bonhams | HK$400,625
17. 2019-05-26 | YUICHI INOUE \(JAPAN, 1916\-1985\) Hana \(Flower\) ink on Japanese paper 144 x 204 cm. \(56 3/4 x 80 3/8 in.\) | Christie's | N/A
18. 2019-05-26 | YUICHI INOUE \(JAPAN, 1916\-1985\) Yume \(Dream\) ink on Japanese paper laid on canvas 194 x 127 cm. \(76 3/8 x 50 in.\) | Christie's | HK$437,500
19. 2017-04-27 | Yuichi Inoue, Flower from 'HANA no Shojō' | Mallet Auction | ¥450,000
20. 2015-06-02 | YUICHI INOUE \(YU\-ICHI\) Tokio 1916 \- 1985 Kyu \(Ruhen\). 1981. Tuschpinsel auf sehr feinem handgeschöpften Kalligrafiepapier auf sehr dünnem Japan aufgewalzt. 45 x 60,5cm. Rotes Siegel unten links: YU\-ICHI. Verso bezeichnet: ... \(Siegel\) | Van Ham Kunstauktionen | €3,500
21. 2015-04-05 | YU\-ICHI \(YUICHI INOUE\) \| Buddha \(Butsu\) | Sotheby's | HK$375,000
22. 2012-01-27 | Yuichi Inoue, Kyu | Mallet Auction | ¥300,000

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