Shusaku Arakawa: career timeline

Japanese · 1936–2010 · Works grouped by the decade they were made (the cataloged date, or a date in the signature or title), not by sale date. 28 of 38 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.

Shusaku Arakawa: 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	8	8	$8.1kSign up	Oil
1970s	18	14	$540Sign up	Screenprint
1980s	2	2	$1kSign up	Lithograph

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Year madeHeight (in)Width (in)MediumSubject

1960s 8 works

Sold: 8 of 8
Median: $8.1kSign up
Average: $23.5kSign up
Typical size: 34.5 × 36 in (88 × 91 cm)
Mediums: Oil (3), Gouache (1), Mixed media (1)
Subjects: —

1970s 18 works

Sold: 14 of 18
Median: $540Sign up
Average: $8kSign up
Typical size: 28.5 × 39.5 in (72 × 100 cm)
Mediums: Screenprint (6), Lithograph (5), Other (4)
Subjects: Figures & portraits (1)

c. 1970 Portrait of Mona Lisa (Splitting of Meaning)$264Sign up
c. 1970 Sculpting$69.8kSign up
1970 Landscapes$450Sign up
1970 MistakeUnsold
1970 MistakeUnsold
1970 MistakeUnsold
1970 MistakeUnsold
1973 The Degrees of Meaning (from the Reality & Paradoxes portfolio)$1.2kSign up
1973 Bonjour Picasso (Aus: Hommage à Picasso)$139Sign up
1973 Bonjour Picasso (Aus: "Hommage à Picasso")$227Sign up
1973 Bonjour Picasso (Aus: "Hommage à Picasso")$313Sign up
c. 1974 Tomb of Chance 2$504Sign up

Show 6 more (1970s)

1975 Test Mirror (from the Mirrors of the Mind portfolio)$576Sign up
c. 1975 Aus: The Signified or If$877Sign up
c. 1978 Or Space$33kSign up
1978 Study for "Blank"$3.5kSign up
1978 Point Blank (III)$625Sign up
1978 Point Blank$375Sign up

1980s 2 works

Sold: 2 of 2
Median: $1kSign up
Average: $1kSign up
Typical size: 25.5 × 39.5 in (65 × 100 cm)
Mediums: Lithograph (2)
Subjects: —

1982 For Aimé$940Sign up
c. 1984 The Sharing of Nameless; and The Sharing of Nameless$1.1kSign up

Creation date not recorded

10 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 2000s 2 works

Sold: 2 of 2
Median: $16.4kSign up
Average: $16.4kSign up
Typical size: 57.5 × 52 in (147 × 133 cm)
Mediums: Acrylic (2)
Subjects: —

sold 2007 MIRACLE OF THE DOOR$16.8kSign up
sold 2007 Monster$16kSign up

Undated, sold in the 2010s 3 works

Sold: 1 of 3
Median: $28.8kSign up
Average: $28.8kSign up
Typical size: 102.5 × 68 in (260 × 173 cm)
Mediums: Lithograph (1), Mixed media (1), Screenprint (1)
Subjects: —

sold 2015 - ''Test Mirror''-Unsold
sold 2016 Ohne Titel$28.8kSign up
sold 2019 - ''Texture of Point Blank No. 2''-Result not published

Undated, sold in the 2020s 5 works

Sold: 4 of 5
Median: $12kSign up
Average: $27kSign up
Typical size: 46.5 × 46.5 in (118 × 118 cm)
Mediums: Watercolor (1), Other (1), Screenprint (1)
Subjects: Abstract (1)

sold 2020 Abstract$16.3kSign up
sold 2021 Untitled$81.3kSign up
sold 2022 Untitled$2.6kSign up
sold 2025 Test MirrorResult not published
sold 2026 Untitled$7.7kSign up

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 Shusaku Arakawa auction results →