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- Estimate
- $15,000–$25,000 hammer
- Result
- Performance
- Sale
- Sotheby's — Photographs, New York · 13 April 2022
- Record ID
- TB-2026-5015159
- Record
- first seen 28 Jul 2026 · updated 6 Sep 2026 · source ↗
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Shōmei Tōmatsu, Card Game, Zushi, Kanagawa. Sotheby's, 13 Apr 2022, lot 6. bought in (did not sell). TheBasis.Art, TB-2026-5015159.
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Shōmei Tōmatsu, Card Game, Zushi, Kanagawa. Sotheby's, 13 Apr 2022, lot 6. bought in (did not sell). TheBasis.Art, TB-2026-5015159.
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From the same sale Photographs · Apr 2022
| Lot | Artist | Estimate | Result |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sailor, Philadelphia | Ray K. Metzker | $5,000–$7,000 | |
| 'Night: 45 East 8th Street' | Peter Hujar | $12,000–$18,000 | |
| Connecting to the Infinite | Steven Arnold | $4,000–$6,000 | |
| Family Group, Canton, China | John Thompson | $7,000–$10,000 | |
| 'Tenaya Canyon, Valley of the Yosemite From Union Point' | Eadweard Muybridge | $10,000–$15,000 | |
| Selected Images | Willy Ronis | $6,000–$9,000 |
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|---|---|---|---|---|
| Shōmei Tōmatsu | 下町の姉妹 | $18,690 | SBI Art Auction, Oct 2020 | |
| Shōmei Tōmatsu | 波照間島 | SBI Art Auction, Oct 2020 | ||
| Shōmei Tōmatsu | 敗戰の記憶 愛知・豊川海軍工廠跡 | SBI Art Auction, Apr 2021 | ||
| Shōmei Tōmatsu | Untitled [Yokosuka] (from the series Chewing Gum and Chocola | Phillips, Nov 2015 | ||
| Shōmei Tōmatsu | Hibakusha Shimotani Tomitaro, Nagasaki from Nagasaki 11:02 | Phillips, Oct 2018 | ||
| Shōmei Tōmatsu | Naha, Okinawa | Sotheby's, Apr 2022 | ||
| Shōmei Tōmatsu | Hateruma (from 'The Pencil of the Sun') | Sotheby's, Oct 2021 | ||
| Shōmei Tōmatsu | Untitled (from 'Chewing Gum and Chocolates, Yokosuka') | Sotheby's, Oct 2021 |
The closest sold results by price, artist, and medium — the appraiser's comp set, generated from the corpus. All figures converted to USD at current reference rates.