# Kazuhide Takahama artist context and auction value notes

Canonical page: https://appraisily.com/artist/kazuhide-takahama/
Profile generated: 2026-08-24T13:38:51.281Z
Quality: medium confidence, adequate sources

## Artist identity

- Nationality: Japanese

## About Kazuhide Takahama

Kazuhide Takahama, born in 1930, was a Japanese designer and architect whose career was associated with Italy. VIAF links preferred forms of his name, including Takahama Kazuhide and the Japanese form 高濱 和秀, and identifies him as a Japanese designer active in Italy. Getty ULAN and Wikidata maintain authority records for him, while The Museum of Modern Art has a dedicated artist entry. These institutional records help distinguish Takahama from similarly named makers and provide stable identifiers for cataloguing and appraisal research. Collectors may encounter his name across decorative-art and edition-related auction records, alongside objects classified more broadly as sculpture, mixed media, works on paper, prints, paintings, or fine art. Because broad auction classifications can obscure the precise object type, research should begin with the individual work's materials, marks, dimensions, date, provenance, and attribution.

## Common works and media

The collected auction source groups records attributed to Kazuhide Takahama under decorative art and editions, sculpture and mixed media, works on paper and prints, and fine art and paintings. These are broad database categories rather than a verified inventory of his output. For appraisal purposes, identify the actual object type and document its materials, construction, dimensions, marks or labels, inscriptions, edition information, condition, restoration, and ownership history before choosing comparable sales.

## Market and appraisal context

Appraisily's matched public-auction index for Takahama spans 1999–2026 and reports 372 records, including 234 priced records, in the collected source snapshot. These figures describe the available dataset rather than a guaranteed market level. A defensible appraisal compares the object with recent public sales sharing medium, dimensions, date or career period, condition, restoration history, signature or inscriptions, edition details, provenance, and attribution confidence. Subject matter, rarity, and current demand may also matter when genuinely comparable records support them. Reported realized prices can differ in their treatment of buyer's premiums and fees, while private sales and incomplete feeds remain partly or wholly invisible. Authentication and condition review can materially change which auction records are appropriate comparables.

## Appraisily data basis

Appraisily artist pages combine artist-identity research with matched public auction records, auction-house context, sale dates, realized prices, and comparable lots when those records are available. Dataset coverage may exclude private sales, incomplete feeds, and subsequent attribution changes.

## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q55219846
- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500084872
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/96293610/
- The Museum of Modern Art: https://www.moma.org/artists/5782
- Wikipedia: https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kazuhide_Takahama
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/kazuhide-takahama/