# Tadashi Asoma artist context and auction value notes

Canonical page: https://appraisily.com/artist/tadashi-asoma/
Profile generated: 2026-08-24T20:24:09.573Z
Quality: medium confidence, adequate sources

## Artist identity

- Nationality: Japanese
- Common media: Painting

## Portrait

![Tadashi Asoma](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/40/James_R._Borynack_%26_Tadashi_Asoma_preview.jpg)
Frwhitwell · CC BY-SA 4.0
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:James_R._Borynack_%26_Tadashi_Asoma_preview.jpg

## About Tadashi Asoma

Tadashi Asoma (1923–2017) was a painter identified in Wikidata, VIAF, Getty ULAN, and Art UK authority records. Wikidata describes him as Japanese, while VIAF's consolidated record uses the description Japanese American painter; the available sources therefore support a Japanese identity and an American association without documenting citizenship details. The collected institutional records do not establish a named movement, school, training history, or exact birth and death dates. Collectors encounter Asoma chiefly through the secondary market, where matched records are grouped under fine art and paintings, works on paper and prints, sculpture and mixed media, and decorative art and editions. These broad auction labels should not be treated as a complete catalogue of his oeuvre. Identity checks should compare the artist's name, the Japanese form 遊馬正, life dates, medium, signature or inscriptions, provenance, and the object itself before assigning a work to Asoma.

## Common works and media

The source pack most securely identifies Asoma as a painter. In auction and appraisal contexts, matched material is organized into paintings, works on paper and prints, sculpture or mixed media, and decorative art or editions. Because these are broad market classifications rather than a catalogue raisonné, each object's medium, technique, signature, date, edition status, and provenance should be verified independently.

## Market and appraisal context

Public auction records for Tadashi Asoma are best used as comparable-sale evidence rather than as a fixed price guide. Relevant comparisons should involve works with similar medium, dimensions, date, subject matter, condition, and attribution status. Signatures, inscriptions, edition details, restoration, provenance, exhibition history, and catalogue references may also affect how confidently a lot can be identified and compared. Realized prices should be checked on a like-for-like basis because reported totals may differ in their treatment of buyer's premiums or fees. Private transactions, incomplete feeds, and later attribution changes may not appear in public datasets, so an appraisal should combine market records with direct inspection and supporting documentation.

## 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 records are a research starting point and may not capture private sales, incomplete feeds, or later attribution changes.

## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q21459417
- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500138560
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/266241016/
- Art UK: https://artuk.org/discover/artists/asoma-tadashi-19232017
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/tadashi-asoma/