# Manabú Mabe artist context and auction value notes

Canonical page: https://appraisily.com/artist/manabu-mabe/
Profile generated: 2026-08-24T16:00:47.138Z
Quality: medium confidence, adequate sources

## Artist identity

- Birth date: 1924-09-14
- Death date: 1997-09-26
- Nationality: Japanese, Brazilian
- Common media: Painting

## Portrait

![Manabú Mabe](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/86/Manabu_Mabe.gif/1280px-Manabu_Mabe.gif)
Kaleynns · CC BY-SA 4.0
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Manabu_Mabe.gif

## About Manabú Mabe

Manabú Mabe (1924–1997), commonly catalogued as Manabu Mabe, was a Japanese-Brazilian painter. Authority records connect him with both Japan and Brazil and identify Japanese and Portuguese as his languages of expression. Bibliographic records linked to the artist include scholarship that frames his painted work as a journey from figuration toward abstraction. That provides a useful context for viewing his career, although the collected sources do not justify assigning him to a more specific formal movement. Collectors encounter Mabe primarily through paintings. Appraisily’s category-level market page also groups works on paper, prints, sculpture, mixed media, decorative art, and editions under his auction presence, but those broader classifications need confirmation against each object. The unaccented form Manabu Mabe is used by Wikidata, VIAF, Getty ULAN, and IdRef, making it the most useful alternate name for catalogue searches and entity matching.

## Common works and media

Mabe is securely identified as a painter, making paintings the best-supported work type in the collected sources. Appraisily’s market categories additionally include works on paper and prints, sculpture and mixed media, and decorative art and editions. These are broad auction classifications rather than proof that an individual object is authentic or representative. Record the medium, support, dimensions, signature, inscriptions, condition, and any edition notation before selecting comparable sales.

## Market and appraisal context

A Mabe appraisal should begin with object-level comparison rather than a single artist-wide median. Compare medium, dimensions, date, and career period, then examine condition, restoration, surface quality, signatures, inscriptions, edition information, attribution confidence, provenance, exhibition history, and catalogue references. Subject matter, rarity, and current demand may also affect comparability. Public auction data can be incomplete, and reported totals may treat buyer premiums or fees differently. The collected Appraisily page is internally inconsistent about its record count, so its headline statistics should not be treated as decision-grade until reconciled. When reliable records are available, prioritize verified sale dates, realized prices, and lots genuinely similar to the object being assessed.

## Appraisily data basis

Appraisily artist pages combine artist-identity research with matched auction records, auction-house context, sale dates, realized prices, and comparable lots when those records are available. Public data may be incomplete and should be checked against the specific object.

## Sources

- IdRef: https://www.idref.fr/166608505
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/13555619/
- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3274337
- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500103221
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manabu_Mabe
- Wikipedia: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manabu_Mabe
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/manabu-mabe/