Ben Quilty: career timeline
Australian · b. 1973 · Works grouped by the decade they were made (the cataloged date, or a date in the signature or title), not by sale date. 61 of 62 lots (98% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2000s | 33 | 31 | $27.1kSign up | Oil |
| 2010s | 21 | 20 | $24.2kSign up | Oil |
| 2020s | 5 | 4 | $45.7kSign up | Oil |
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2000s 33 works
- Sold
- 31 of 33
- Median
- $27.1kSign up
- Average
- $38.9kSign up
- Typical size
- 37 × 37.5 in (94 × 95 cm)
- Mediums
- Oil (26), Acrylic (2), Other (1)
- Subjects
- Landscapes (4), Figures & portraits (4), Sunsets & night (1)
2001 Untitled (Paris) 2001$6kSign up
2002 Overpass 2002$40.3kSign up
2002 City Road Landscape 2002$10.2kSign up
2003 Torana No.4 2003$3.3kSign up
2003 Gerard's Garden (Night) 2003$24.5kSign up
2003 Frog Torana 2003$83.5kSign up
2004 Self Portrait as a Budgie 2004$110kSign up
2004 Windsor No. 5 2004$8.8kSign up
2004 Highway 2004Unsold
2004 Portrait after Self Portrait by Arthur Streeton 2004$31.8kSign up
2005 Cullen's Skull 2005$23.9kSign up
2005 Hill End Landscape No. 2 2005$35kSign up
Show 12 more (2000s)
2005 Australian Landscape [Mazda 121] 2005$47.7kSign up
2005 Untitled$3.7kSign up
2005 Australian Landscape No. 6 2005$64.3kSign up
2005 George Byrne Study 2005$36.8kSign up
2005 Beast 2 2005$205kSign up
2005 Amsterdam Skull with Fag 2005$37.6kSign up
2005 Skull RM 2005$23.2kSign up
2005 Untitled (Budgie) 2005$23.2kSign up
2006 FTW (after Sam 'Bull' Hall) 2006$27.1kSign up
2006 Grey Skull 2006$45.9kSign up
2006 Skull 3 2006$129kSign up
2006 The White Ute$1.3kSign up
…and 9 more works from this group in the full results list.
2010s 21 works
- Sold
- 20 of 21
- Median
- $24.2kSign up
- Average
- $24kSign up
- Typical size
- 35.5 × 35.5 in (90 × 90 cm)
- Mediums
- Oil (17), Photograph (2), Drawing (1)
- Subjects
- Figures & portraits (2), Rabbits (1)
2010 The Lot 2 2010$32.8kSign up
2010 Lloydy 2010$23.4kSign up
2010 The Lot No.4 2010$16.1kSign up
2010 The Lot No.1 2010$25.1kSign up
2010 Lloydy 2010Unsold
2011 The Evo Project No. 4 2011$40.1kSign up
2012 Air Commodore John Oddie, after Afghanistan$361Sign up
2012 Trooper Luke Korman$620Sign up
2012 Wilcannia$3.8kSign up
2012 Cook after Baghdad 2012$46kSign up
2012 Braidwood Truck 2012$35kSign up
2012 Air Commodore John Oddie, After Afghanistan, No. 2 2012$44.6kSign up
Show 9 more (2010s)
2014 Straight White Male, Self-Portrait 2014$35.6kSign up
2014 Untitled No.1 (Paris) 2014$34.9kSign up
2014 Self Portrait (Paris Riot)$14.2kSign up
2016 Jm, Humanist, Chairwoman and Rockstar... Keeper of Clarkey$22.7kSign up · sold 2×
2016 (Untitled)$7.2kSign up
2018 The Easter Bunny$20.3kSign up
2018 Bottom Feeder$12.6kSign up
2018 Aftermath 2018$29.3kSign up
2018 Sleepless (Kenny) 2018$34.4kSign up
2020s 5 works
- Sold
- 4 of 5
- Median
- $45.7kSign up
- Average
- $49.8kSign up
- Typical size
- 44 × 36 in (112 × 92 cm)
- Mediums
- Oil (5)
- Subjects
- Figures & portraits (1)
2020 At the Bottom of the Fish Tank 2020Unsold
2020 Whytie 2020$71.1kSign up
2021 Sideways 2021$38.2kSign up
2021 The Encouragement Award No.2 2021$36.6kSign up
2021 Self Portrait with a Hat 2021$53.2kSign up
Creation date not recorded
1 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 1 work
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 Ben Quilty auction results →