and Anonymous: career timeline

· Works grouped by the decade they were made (the cataloged date, or a date in the signature or title), not by sale date. 16 of 31 lots (52% 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.

and Anonymous: works at auction by decade the work was made. Each work counted once; medians use sold works only, in US dollars.

Decade made	Works	Sold	Median sold price	Main medium
1850s	1	1	$714Sign up	Photograph
1890s	1	1	$5kSign up	Photograph
1900s	2	2	$1.3kSign up	Drawing
1920s	9	7	$968Sign up	Photograph
1930s	3	2	$1.9kSign up	Photograph

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Year madeHeight (in)Width (in)MediumSubject

1850s 1 work

Sold: 1 of 1
Median: $714Sign up
Average: $714Sign up
Typical size: 7 × 9 in (17 × 23 cm)
Mediums: Photograph (1)
Subjects: —

1856 Niagara Falls$714Sign up

1890s 1 work

Sold: 1 of 1
Median: $5kSign up
Average: $5kSign up
Typical size: 4.5 × 6.5 in (12 × 17 cm)
Mediums: Photograph (1)
Subjects: —

c. 1890 Views of Turkestan$5kSign up

1900s 2 works

Sold: 2 of 2
Median: $1.3kSign up
Average: $1.3kSign up
Typical size: 8 × 6 in (21 × 16 cm)
Mediums: Drawing (1), Photograph (1)
Subjects: —

c. 1900 Anonymous. Around 1900$966Sign up
c. 1900 Baroda$1.6kSign up

1920s 9 works

Sold: 7 of 9
Median: $968Sign up
Average: $1.6kSign up
Typical size: 5 × 7 in (13 × 18 cm)
Mediums: Photograph (9)
Subjects: —

c. 1920 Prellerhaus, Bauhaus Dessau$830Sign up
1922 Kinderwiege$1.1kSign up
1923 Modell eines Landhauses aus Eisenbeton und Glas$5.3kSign up
1924 Haus Goldstein, Berlin-Westend, Gartenansicht von OstUnsold
1926 Schlafzimmer Wohnhaus Dr. R. J. Harrenstein, AmsterdamUnsold
1926 Bauhaus, Südostansicht$415Sign up
c. 1926 Wohnbebauung an der Afrikanischen Straße, Berlin-Wedding$968Sign up
1927 Der Glasraum in der Werkbundausstellung "Die Wohnung"$1.5kSign up
1928 Teatro San Materno, Ascona$899Sign up

1930s 3 works

Sold: 2 of 3
Median: $1.9kSign up
Average: $1.9kSign up
Typical size: 3.5 × 5 in (9 × 13 cm)
Mediums: Photograph (3)
Subjects: —

1930 Sowjetischer Pavillon in der Internationalen Hygiene-Ausstellung, Dresden (Entwurf El Lissitzky)Unsold
1932 Trinkhalle, Dessau$2.1kSign up
c. 1935 Japan and India$1.6kSign up

Creation date not recorded

15 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 2000s 1 work

Sold: 1 of 1
Median: $1.4kSign up
Average: $1.4kSign up
Typical size: 5.5 × 4 in (15 × 11 cm)
Mediums: Photograph (1)
Subjects: —

sold 2009 ALBUM WITH EROTIC SCENES$1.4kSign up

Undated, sold in the 2010s 14 works

Sold: 14 of 14
Median: $1.2kSign up
Average: $2.1kSign up
Typical size: 10.5 × 10.5 in (26 × 27 cm)
Mediums: Photograph (6), Drawing (6), Other (2)
Subjects: Figures & portraits (2), Markets & villages (1), Cattle & animals (1)

sold 2010 UNTITLED (POLE VAULTER, OLYMPIC GAMES)$715Sign up
sold 2010 KLAMATH INDIANER, OST-OREGON$525Sign up
sold 2011 PANORAMA OF THE OLD TOWN WITH CATHEDRAL, COLOGNE$696Sign up
sold 2013 Untitled (Underwater atomic Bomb, Bikini Atoll)$1.6kSign up
sold 2013 Hochseilartisten am Heumarkt, Köln (High-Wire Circus Artists at Heumarkt, Cologne)$6.3kSign up
sold 2013 Kurt Schwitters bei der Arbeit an seiner Merzplastik "Die heilige Bekümmernis" (Kurt Schwitters working on his Merzplastik "Die heilige Bekümmernis")$6.6kSign up

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