Alberto Korda: career timeline
Cuban · 1928–2001 · Works grouped by the decade they were made (the cataloged date, or a date in the signature or title), not by sale date. 18 of 28 lots (64% 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.
| Decade made | Works | Sold | Median sold price | Main medium |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1950s | 6 | 5 | $4.1kSign up | Photograph |
| 1960s | 10 | 7 | $4.7kSign up | Photograph |
| 1990s | 2 | 2 | $1.1kSign up | Photograph |
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1950s 6 works
- Sold
- 5 of 6
- Median
- $4.1kSign up
- Average
- $3.6kSign up
- Typical size
- 12.5 × 9 in (32 × 23 cm)
- Mediums
- Photograph (6)
- Subjects
- —
1954 Norka smoking at a roulette table, Havana c. 1954$1.5kSign up
1959 La niña de la muñeca de palo$4.1kSign up
1959 Fidel Castro and Camilo Cienfuegos, Havana, 8th January 1959Unsold
1959 El Quijote de la Farola, Havanna$1.4kSign up
1959 El Quijote de la Farola$4.3kSign up
1959 El Quijote de la Farola$6.8kSign up
1960s 10 works
- Sold
- 7 of 10
- Median
- $4.7kSign up
- Average
- $4.5kSign up
- Typical size
- 11.5 × 11.5 in (30 × 29 cm)
- Mediums
- Photograph (10)
- Subjects
- —
1960 Guerrillero Heroico' (Che Guevara), Havana, Cuba, March 5$8.1kSign up
1960 Che Guevara, Simone De Beauvoir and Jean Paul Satre, HavanaUnsold
1960 Che Guevara, Simone de Beauvoir and Jean Paul Sartre, Havana$1.5kSign up
1960 Che Guevara$7.2kSign up
1960 Che Guevara, Simone de Beauvoir and Jean Paul Sartre, Havana$2.8kSign up
1960 Guerrillero Heroico (Che Guevara)Unsold
1960 Guerrillero Heroico (Che Guevara)$1.3kSign up
1960 Fidel Castro and Nikita KhrushchevUnsold
1960 Guerrillero Heroico (Che Guevara)$4.7kSign up
1960 Guerrillero Heroico (Che Guevara)$5.7kSign up
1990s 2 works
- Sold
- 2 of 2
- Median
- $1.1kSign up
- Average
- $1.1kSign up
- Typical size
- 14.5 × 11 in (37 × 27 cm)
- Mediums
- Photograph (2)
- Subjects
- —
1998 Che Guevara, El Juego de Golf$1.9kSign up
1998 Fidel Castro și Ernest Hemingway$392Sign 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 2020s 10 works
- Sold
- 9 of 10
- Median
- $805Sign up
- Average
- $1.1kSign up
- Typical size
- 11 × 8.5 in (29 × 22 cm)
- Mediums
- Photograph (10)
- Subjects
- —
sold 2023 Che Guevara Golfing$1.8kSign up
sold 2024 Fidel Castro and Camilo Cienfuegos in Havana$805Sign up
sold 2024 Che Guvera Golfing$1kSign up
sold 2025 The Don Quixote of the Lamppost$505Sign up
sold 2025 Ernest Hemmingway and Fidel Castro$422Sign up
sold 2025 Fidel Castro Playing Golf in HavanaUnsold
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sold 2026 Guerrillero Heroico (Che Guevara)$1.2kSign up
sold 2026 Fidel Castro and Ernest Hemingway, Havana$330Sign up
sold 2026 Untitled (Two Works)$2.7kSign up
sold 2026 Guerrillero Heroico, Che Guevara$702Sign 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 Alberto Korda auction results →