Andy Goldsworthy: career timeline
British · b. 1956 · Works grouped by the decade they were made (the cataloged date, or a date in the signature or title), not by sale date. 21 of 25 lots (84% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 1 | 1 | $942Sign up | Drawing |
| 1980s | 8 | 5 | $6.7kSign up | Photograph |
| 1990s | 8 | 6 | $6.4kSign up | Photograph |
| 2000s | 4 | 4 | $6.1kSign up | Photograph |
Where does mine fit?
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1970s 1 work
1980s 8 works
- Sold
- 5 of 8
- Median
- $6.7kSign up
- Average
- $5.5kSign up
- Typical size
- 29 × 30 in (74 × 76 cm)
- Mediums
- Photograph (5), Other (1), Sculpture (1)
- Subjects
- Rivers & marshes (1), Cattle & animals (1)
1983 River stones scratched white<br /> made in dried-up bed of Swindale Beck after a long hot summer <br />over cast<br /> began to rain steadily just as I finished$3.1kSign up
1985 Waiting for fhe WindResult not published
1987 STACKED STICKS, HIGH UP ON A LEDGE$835Sign up
1987 SINGLE SANDSTONE, 1987$6.7kSign up
c. 1987 Series of Seven Works, 1987-94$7.9kSign up
1987 Woven bamboo, Kiinagashima-Cho, Japan, 27 NovemberUnsold
1988 Proposed Wall Division Sheep Sculpture, Stonewood$8.8kSign up
1989 Stacked Snow Cone, Grise Fiord, Ellesmere IslandUnsold
1990s 8 works
- Sold
- 6 of 8
- Median
- $6.4kSign up
- Average
- $6kSign up
- Typical size
- 25.5 × 25.5 in (65 × 65 cm)
- Mediums
- Photograph (3), Mixed media (2), Sculpture (1)
- Subjects
- Rivers & marshes (1)
1990 Torn Stones, Burndale Volcano$2kSign up
1991 'Stone Drawing, Grass, Clay, Thorns, Scaur Glen, Dumfriesshire'$2kSign up
1991 'Stone Drawing, Grass, Clay, Thorns, Scaur Glen, Dumfriesshire'Unsold
1992 LOWTHER EARTH SPLASHES; MUDSTONES THROWN INTO SCAUR WATER, PENPONT, DUMFRIESSHIRE, JULY 1992, 1992$7.9kSign up
1992 River Rock, drawn over with a soft red stone, Scaur Water, DumfriesshireUnsold
1993 Snow and Earth$8.3kSign up
1993 Snow and Earth$10.6kSign up
1996 Clay Rock: A Proposal for San Diego$4.8kSign up
2000s 4 works
- Sold
- 4 of 4
- Median
- $6.1kSign up
- Average
- $5.2kSign up
- Typical size
- 15 × 17.5 in (39 × 44 cm)
- Mediums
- Photograph (3), Print (other) (1)
- Subjects
- —
2000 La Vallée du Vançon Cairn, Reserve Géologique de Haute Provence, 2000$235Sign up
2000 Burnt sticks Installed at Galerie Lelong, New York 1996 Returned and remade at Buckhorn, 1998 In the dried up bed of a pond Revisited the following year, 1999 After the pond had filled and emptied Buckhorn, New York$8.2kSign up
2002 Fall Leaves on Stones (2)$4.7kSign up
2003 Red Leaves/Difficult to Find/Held with Water/To the Tip of a Quarried Stone/Government Island, Virginia October 13$7.5kSign up
Creation date not recorded
4 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 2010s 2 works
Undated, sold in the 2020s 2 works
- Sold
- 2 of 2
- Median
- $2.4kSign up
- Average
- $2.4kSign up
- Typical size
- 19.5 × 19.5 in (50 × 50 cm)
- Mediums
- Photograph (2)
- Subjects
- —
sold 2020 STONES, SCRATCHED WHITE$2.3kSign up
sold 2020 STARTED CLIMBING$2.6kSign 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 Andy Goldsworthy auction results →