Eikō Hosoe: career timeline

Japanese · 1933–2024 · Works grouped by the decade they were made (the cataloged date, or a date in the signature or title), not by sale date. 23 of 31 lots (74% of works) have a usable creation date; the others are listed at the end by the decade they were sold. Each work is shown once, even when it sold more than once.

Eikō Hosoe: works at auction by decade the work was made. Each work counted once; medians use sold works only, in US dollars.

Decade made	Works	Sold	Median sold price	Main medium
1960s	10	9	$2.8kSign up	Photograph
1970s	9	7	$1.9kSign up	Photograph
1980s	1	1	$489Sign up	Photograph
1990s	2	1	$768Sign up	Photograph
2010s	1	1	$5.6kSign up	Photograph

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Year madeHeight (in)Width (in)MediumSubject

1960s 10 works

Sold: 9 of 10
Median: $2.8kSign up
Average: $3.3kSign up
Typical size: 11.5 × 10 in (29 × 25 cm)
Mediums: Photograph (10)
Subjects: Flowers & still life (6), Figures & portraits (2)

1960 #24 from the series 'Man and Woman$2kSign up
1960 Man and Woman #24$938Sign up
c. 1961 Three works (from the Ordeal by Roses series)$1.5kSign up
c. 1961 Ordeal by Roses #5$1.2kSign up
1961 Ordeal by Roses #32$6.4kSign up
1961 Barakei (Ordeal by Roses) #18Unsold
1961 Barakei (Ordeal by Roses) #32$5.9kSign up
c. 1962 Selected Images$5kSign up
1962 Ba-Ra-Kei: Ordeal by Roses #6$4.3kSign up
1965 'Kamaitachi #8'$2.8kSign up

1970s 9 works

Sold: 7 of 9
Median: $1.9kSign up
Average: $2kSign up
Typical size: 11 × 10.5 in (28 × 27 cm)
Mediums: Photograph (8), Other (1)
Subjects: Landscapes (1)

1970 Embrace #60$4.5kSign up
1971 Embrace #8$2.1kSign up
1974 Yosemite (landscape), California 1974Unsold
1974 Yosemite (nude), California 1974$969Sign up
1975 Aus: Bilol 1$1kSign up
1975 Ohne Titel$1.2kSign up
1976 Untitled$1.9kSign up
1976 Untitled$2.2kSign up
1976 ArlesResult not published

1980s 1 work

Sold: 1 of 1
Median: $489Sign up
Average: $489Sign up
Typical size: —
Mediums: Photograph (1)
Subjects: —

1984 JAPÓN$489Sign up

1990s 2 works

Sold: 1 of 2
Median: $768Sign up
Average: $768Sign up
Typical size: 6.5 × 5 in (17 × 12 cm)
Mediums: Photograph (2)
Subjects: —

1992 '"Witnesses of the End of the Twentieth Century"' (from 'Luna Rossa')Unsold
1993 Selected Mini-Graphs (#2, #3, #5)$768Sign up

2010s 1 work

Sold: 1 of 1
Median: $5.6kSign up
Average: $5.6kSign up
Typical size: 9.5 × 13.5 in (24 × 34 cm)
Mediums: Photograph (1)
Subjects: —

2017 Two Works: (i-ii) Yayoi Kusama$5.6kSign up

Creation date not recorded

8 works have no cataloged or signed date. They are grouped here by the decade they were last sold, which says nothing about when they were made.

Undated, sold in the 2010s 4 works

Sold: 3 of 4
Median: $1.6kSign up
Average: $1.6kSign up
Typical size: 11.5 × 8 in (30 × 20 cm)
Mediums: Photograph (3), Other (1)
Subjects: Flowers & still life (1)

sold 2013 Breast and arm$1.9kSign up
sold 2013 Leg and Torso$1.3kSign up
sold 2017 Barakei Shinshuban – Ordeal by Roses Re-EditedUnsold
sold 2017 Kamaitachi #8$1.6kSign up

Undated, sold in the 2020s 4 works

Sold: 4 of 4
Median: $1.2kSign up
Average: $1.3kSign up
Typical size: 8 × 9 in (20 × 23 cm)
Mediums: Photograph (4)
Subjects: Figures & portraits (2)

Medians and averages count sold works only (each work's most recent sale), in US dollars at the sale-date rate. Works cataloged as “attributed to”, “circle of” or similar are left out. All Eikō Hosoe auction results →