Allen Ruppersberg: career timeline
American · b. 1944 · Works grouped by the decade they were made (the cataloged date, or a date in the signature or title), not by sale date. 38 of 40 lots (95% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 3 | 3 | $2kSign up | Other |
| 1970s | 9 | 8 | $986Sign up | Other |
| 1980s | 15 | 15 | $3.1kSign up | Screenprint |
| 2000s | 4 | 4 | $2.8kSign up | Lithograph |
| 2010s | 4 | 4 | $1.2kSign up | Screenprint |
| 2020s | 2 | 1 | $508Sign up | Screenprint |
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1960s 3 works
1970s 9 works
- Sold
- 8 of 9
- Median
- $986Sign up
- Average
- $6.1kSign up
- Typical size
- 18 × 20 in (46 × 51 cm)
- Mediums
- Other (3), Lithograph (3), Photograph (2)
- Subjects
- Figures & portraits (2), Sunsets & night (1)
1970 Untitled (City Limits)Unsold
c. 1970 Untitled (Major League Baseball Stars)$1.2kSign up
1970 Untitled (City Limits)$22.5kSign up
1970 24 Pieces$429Sign up
1978 Untitled (Some Men Still Believe...)$756Sign up
1978 Tom Sawyer, Huck Finn, The Mississippi and Moonlight$262Sign up
1978 A Private Reading$504Sign up
1979 Play On Words/A Collection of Rare Books—Charles Dickens$1.3kSign up
1979 Some Men...(in five parts), 1979 (5)$21.6kSign up
1980s 15 works
- Sold
- 15 of 15
- Median
- $3.1kSign up
- Average
- $7.5kSign up
- Typical size
- 22 × 24 in (56 × 61 cm)
- Mediums
- Screenprint (9), Other (3), Drawing (2)
- Subjects
- Figures & portraits (4)
1980 Autobiography$23kSign up
1981 Group of Two Works from Illustration for Progress not Adventure/Adventure not Progress$25.6kSign up
c. 1982 Head$2kSign up
1982 Searching for Passion and Sex (and Other Things)$254Sign up
c. 1982 Head$1.6kSign up
1982 Screamed from Life$125Sign up
c. 1982 Heads (3)$17.5kSign up
c. 1982 Heads (3)$7.5kSign up
1982 Screamed from Life$299Sign up
1983 Illustration for the Novel that Writes Itself$1.8kSign up
1985 Out of Luck$21.3kSign up
1988 Poster Object (Where Should I Go?)$1.3kSign up
Show 3 more (1980s)
1988 Poster Object (What Should I Do?)$3.8kSign up
1988 Poster Object (Where Should I Go?)$3.1kSign up
1988 Poster Object (Why Do We Fail?)$3.5kSign up
2000s 4 works
2010s 4 works
- Sold
- 4 of 4
- Median
- $1.2kSign up
- Average
- $1.9kSign up
- Typical size
- 34.5 × 48 in (87 × 122 cm)
- Mediums
- Screenprint (2), Other (2)
- Subjects
- —
c. 2010 Is One Thing Better Than Another??????$5kSign up
2012 Poem No.1 Flashback Startover$238Sign up
2012 Poem No.1 Flashback Startover$665Sign up · sold 2×
2012 Who Killed the Kennedys?$1.7kSign up
2020s 2 works
- Sold
- 1 of 2
- Median
- $508Sign up
- Average
- $508Sign up
- Typical size
- 28 × 31.5 in (71 × 80 cm)
- Mediums
- Screenprint (1), Print (other) (1)
- Subjects
- —
2020 untitled (what happened to contemporary art?)$508Sign up
2020 Carl BarksUnsold
Creation date not recorded
2 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 2 works
- Sold
- 0 of 2
- Median
- —
- Average
- —
- Typical size
- —
- Mediums
- Lithograph (2)
- Subjects
- —
sold 2024 The Ten Historical...Result not published
sold 2024 The Ten Historical...Result not published
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 Allen Ruppersberg auction results →