Tadanori Yokoo Auction Prices and Value Guide
Tadanori Yokoo auction prices are tracked in Appraisily's artist market index, with source-directory coverage of 349 records. Use this page to review sold-lot activity, market context, and valuation factors before requesting a formal appraisal.
Tadanori Yokoo auction prices: quick answer
Tadanori Yokoo auction prices depend on medium, size, date, condition, provenance, edition details, attribution confidence, and recent comparable auction sales.
- Artist
- Tadanori Yokoo
- Source records
- 349
- Market update
- 2026-02-16
Artist context
About Tadanori Yokoo
Tadanori Yokoo (born 1936, Nishiwaki, Hyogo, Japan) is a graphic designer, illustrator, printmaker, painter, and ceramicist whose career has spanned more than six decades. Emerging from Japan's postwar design scene in the late 1950s, Yokoo became internationally recognized for a visual language that fuses psychedelia, pop imagery, and traditional Japanese iconography into dense, vividly colored compositions. His poster designs from the 1960s and 1970s helped define an era of experimental graphic art and earned him a place in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art, New York. In later decades he expanded into painting, ceramics, and digital imaging while maintaining an active studio practice. Yokoo's work draws on sources ranging from ukiyo-e to Hollywood film to Indian spiritual imagery, making it a touchstone for collectors interested in the intersection of Japanese visual culture and global pop modernism.
Japanese postwar graphic design and psychedeliaposters and graphic designprints and printmakingpaintingceramicsJapanese visual culture and cosmopolitan imagerypsychedelic and pop-cultural pastiche
Common works and media
Screen-printed and offset-lithograph posters, limited-edition serigraphs and woodblock prints, acrylic and oil paintings, ceramic plates and vessels, mixed-media collages, and digital-imaging works. Recurring subjects include self-portraiture, cosmological and spiritual motifs, Japanese folk iconography, and pop-cultural pastiche. Signed and numbered editions exist for many poster series; unsigned or later printings also circulate and should be distinguished from original editions.
Market and appraisal context
Yokoo's auction footprint includes posters, limited-edition prints, paintings, ceramics, and works on paper. Collectors most frequently encounter his screen-printed and offset-lithograph posters from the 1960s–1980s, which appear regularly at major and regional auction houses. Valuation depends on medium, date, edition size, condition, provenance, and whether the work is from his celebrated psychedelic period. Original paintings and unique ceramics tend to command higher estimates than poster editions. Comparable-lot analysis using realized prices, sale dates, and auction-house provenance is recommended for any individual appraisal.
Auction categories and appraisal factors
Appraisal caveats
- Market data is based on general auction-house context; individual lot results vary widely by medium, size, date, and condition
- The 349 auction records in the Appraisily/Invaluable database span multiple media and decades; realized prices should not be generalized without comparable-lot analysis
Evidence
Sources for artist context
This source-grounded artist context passed Appraisily's promotion threshold: high confidence, strong sources.
- RKD Netherlands Institute for Art History library authority
- The Museum of Modern Art museum or university
- Wikidata library authority
- VIAF library authority
- Getty Vocabulary Program library authority
- Library of Congress library authority
Data basis
This page is built from Appraisily's public auction market index. Private transactions, incomplete sale feeds, and attribution changes may not be fully represented.
Artist value FAQ
How much is Tadanori Yokoo worth?
Comparable public auction sales are the best starting point, but final value depends on the specific artwork, condition, size, medium, provenance, and attribution confidence.
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