Takashi Murakami

Japanese · b. 1962 · Painter, Sculptor

Takashi Murakami is a Japanese contemporary artist. He works in fine arts as well as commercial media and is known for blurring the line between high and low arts. His work… (Wikipedia)

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1,398lots offered2007–2026years recorded92%sold (1,269)$2.8kSign up free to seemedian price

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Red Demon and Blue Demon with 48 ArhatsPhillips · Jun 2021$6,080,000≈ £4,346,583≈ €5,087,440Sign up to see
Flower Parent and ChildPhillips · Mar 2023HK$14,002,000≈ $1,783,715≈ £1,444,654≈ €1,638,540Sign up to see
MPGMP, 1960->2012Phillips · May 2018HK$7,300,000≈ $930,531≈ £698,964≈ €799,151Sign up to see

Takashi Murakami’s highest prices recorded at auction, ranked in US dollars at each sale-date exchange rate and shown in the currency of the sale (with the buyer’s premium where the house publishes it).

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Average price

$22.2kSign up free to see

median $2.8kfree account

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Lots sold

1,269

of 1,386 offered · 2007–2026

Sell-through

92%

sold ÷ offered

Price trend

Each dot is a sold lot (price realized incl. premium where published, converted to USD at the sale-date rate; log scale). Dashed line: yearly median.

Showing 582 of 1,243 priced sales (evenly sampled; every year’s high and low included). Medians use all sales.

12 lot(s) offered at auction whose result the house did not publish are listed under “Also offered” on the results tab and excluded from these statistics.

14 sold lot(s) are awaiting a USD exchange rate and are excluded from averages.

By medium

Medium	Offered	Sold	Sell-through	Average	Median	High
Paintings	97	81	84%	$232kSign up	$83kSign up	$6.1MSign up
Oil	1	1	100%	$80kSign up	$80kSign up	$80kSign up
Acrylic	79	64	81%	$289kSign up	$98.9kSign up	$6.1MSign up
Mixed media	2	1	50%	$1.7kSign up	$1.7kSign up	$1.7kSign up
Works on paper	12	9	75%	$10.5kSign up	$2.7kSign up	$30.9kSign up
Watercolor	1	1	100%	$28.2kSign up	$28.2kSign up	$28.2kSign up
Drawing	7	6	86%	$1.9kSign up	$1.8kSign up	$3.1kSign up
Prints & multiples	1180	1104	94%	$3.8kSign up	$2.5kSign up	$63kSign up
Lithograph	905	874	97%	$3.3kSign up	$2.2kSign up	$30.8kSign up
Screenprint	140	118	84%	$6.5kSign up	$5kSign up	$63kSign up
Print (other)	63	54	86%	$3.5kSign up	$3.2kSign up	$12.8kSign up
Multiple	72	58	81%	$4.4kSign up	$2.7kSign up	$30kSign up
Photography	18	16	89%	$5.7kSign up	$4.8kSign up	$15kSign up
Photograph	18	16	89%	$5.7kSign up	$4.8kSign up	$15kSign up
Sculpture	22	17	77%	$217kSign up	$8.4kSign up	$1.8MSign up
Other	57	42	74%	$35.7kSign up	$5.3kSign up	$645kSign up

Medium classes are derived from the medium text as published by each house; “Other” includes lots whose medium wasn’t stated.

By year

Year	Offered	Sold	Median
2026	161	155	$1.4kSign up
2025	203	189	$1.7kSign up
2024	159	144	$1.8kSign up
2023	92	84	$2.2kSign up
2022	115	104	$2.3kSign up
2021	85	78	$3.8kSign up
2020	84	72	$5.3kSign up
2019	79	77	$5.7kSign up
2018	64	59	$5.7kSign up
2017	67	63	$4.5kSign up
2016	55	51	$4.7kSign up
2015	60	54	$3.9kSign up
2014	39	38	$4.5kSign up
2013	60	54	$4.5kSign up
2012	20	17	$1.9kSign up
2011	23	15	$3.6kSign up
2010	3	1	$12kSign up
2009	13	11	$957Sign up
2008	3	3	$20.4kSign up
2007	1	0	—Sign up