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727-727

Maker
Takashi Murakami
Year
2006
Rank
82 of 100
Identifier
Offset lithograph on shiny wove paper, edition of 300, ~65 x 100 cm, signed/numbered

727-727

Realized at auction: $3,200, dated 2023-10-03. This is a realized sale. Somebody paid it.

What is it, and why is it in the FLOAT 100?

Mr. DOB-on-the-wave image used for Murakami's 2008 Brooklyn Museum retrospective catalogue cover — one of his largest, most iconic prints.

Offset lithograph on shiny wove paper, edition of 300, ~65 x 100 cm, signed/numbered

What is the best-sourced number for it?

Figure
$3,200
Kind
Realized at auction
Date
2023-10-03

A realized auction price is what a buyer actually paid on the date shown, including the buyer's premium where the sale reported it. It is the strongest kind of reference price, and it is a record of one sale of one object on one day, not a promise of what the next example will bring.

By reference price, 727-727 is number 90 of 100 in the art entries of the FLOAT 100. 93 of those 100 rest on a realized sale; the rest carry an asking price or a guide value, and each page says which. Rank within the FLOAT 100 itself (82 here) is editorial: how much an object defines its field, not price alone.

How this is made

The figure
One reference price, shown with its own kind. FLOAT does not average it with anything or adjust it for time.
Realized or not
A realized price is a completed sale. A market asking price and a price-guide value are not sales, and are labeled as such wherever they appear.
Why no grade ladder
Most FLOAT 100 entries are individual objects. There is one of this, so there is no population and no spread across grades to show.
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