Takao Tanabe: career timeline

Canadian · b. 1926 · Works grouped by the decade they were made (the cataloged date, or a date in the signature or title), not by sale date. 25 of 30 lots (83% 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.

Takao Tanabe: 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
1950s	3	2	$3.1kSign up	Drawing
1960s	3	2	$747Sign up	Screenprint
1970s	10	7	$10.5kSign up	Acrylic
1980s	7	6	$996Sign up	Lithograph
1990s	2	2	$1.4kSign up	Woodcut / linocut

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Year madeHeight (in)Width (in)MediumSubject

1950s 3 works

Sold: 2 of 3
Median: $3.1kSign up
Average: $3.1kSign up
Typical size: 12 × 18.5 in (31 × 47 cm)
Mediums: Drawing (1), Watercolor (1), Pastel (1)
Subjects: —

1960s 3 works

Sold: 2 of 3
Median: $747Sign up
Average: $747Sign up
Typical size: 18 × 18 in (46 × 45 cm)
Mediums: Screenprint (2), Mixed media (1)
Subjects: —

1965 Untitled - Collage in Beige and Blue$1.4kSign up
1968 Q III [Cut Corners] #3/18$91Sign up
1968 Q III [Cut Corners] #3/18Unsold

1970s 10 works

Sold: 7 of 10
Median: $10.5kSign up
Average: $12.9kSign up
Typical size: 26 × 32 in (66 × 81 cm)
Mediums: Acrylic (7), Watercolor (2), Lithograph (1)
Subjects: Landscapes (1)

1980s 7 works

Sold: 6 of 7
Median: $996Sign up
Average: $1.4kSign up
Typical size: 15.5 × 23.5 in (40 × 60 cm)
Mediums: Lithograph (2), Acrylic (2), Etching (2)
Subjects: Landscapes (2)

1980 Prairie Hill With Cloud #20/75$458Sign up
1982 Low Foothills, South of Claresholm$1.8kSign up
1982 Southern Alberta FoothillsUnsold
1983 On the Road to Banff #52/55$3.4kSign up
1984 Dark Prairie II #20/35$1.1kSign up
1984 Dark Prairie, II #17/30$868Sign up
1986 Skincuttle Bay #24/50$628Sign up

1990s 2 works

Sold: 2 of 2
Median: $1.4kSign up
Average: $1.4kSign up
Typical size: 11.5 × 20 in (29 × 50 cm)
Mediums: Woodcut / linocut (1), Watercolor (1)
Subjects: Sunsets & night (1)

1993 Shuttleworth Sunset #18/75$1.7kSign up
1996 Early Morning [Inside Passage]$1kSign up

Creation date not recorded

5 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 2 works

Sold: 2 of 2
Median: $3.4kSign up
Average: $3.4kSign up
Typical size: 22 × 25 in (56 × 64 cm)
Mediums: Acrylic (1), Lithograph (1)
Subjects: Landscapes (1)

sold 2011 Ooza Pink$6.3kSign up
sold 2017 Yellow Field #54/75$608Sign up

Undated, sold in the 2020s 3 works

Sold: 3 of 3
Median: $940Sign up
Average: $4kSign up
Typical size: 14 × 20 in (36 × 51 cm)
Mediums: Lithograph (2), Acrylic (1)
Subjects: —

sold 2020 Low Tide #17/50$572Sign up
sold 2020 Untitled - The Prairie$10.6kSign up
sold 2021 Prairie Morning #22/37$940Sign 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 Takao Tanabe auction results →