Bill Brandt: career timeline

British · 1904–1983 · Works grouped by the decade they were made (the cataloged date, or a date in the signature or title), not by sale date. 154 of 176 lots (88% 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.

Bill Brandt: 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
1930s	52	38	$3.6kSign up	Photograph
1940s	21	16	$3.9kSign up	Photograph
1950s	53	44	$7.5kSign up	Photograph
1960s	16	12	$5.3kSign up	Photograph
1970s	12	8	$5.7kSign up	Photograph

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Year madeHeight (in)Width (in)MediumSubject

1930s 52 works

Sold: 38 of 52
Median: $3.6kSign up
Average: $4.5kSign up
Typical size: 13.5 × 11.5 in (34 × 29 cm)
Mediums: Photograph (51), Other (1)
Subjects: Sunsets & night (15), Markets & villages (5), Rivers & marshes (2)

c. 1930 Coming homeUnsold
c. 1930 Hornton Street, Campden Hill, LondonUnsold
c. 1930 Misty Evening in SheffieldUnsold
1930 Untitled - Rooftops in RainUnsold
c. 1932 Evening in Kew Gardens$2.9kSign up
1932 Evening in Kew Gardens$6kSign up
c. 1933 Misty Evening in Sheffield$2.3kSign up
1933 Rainswept Roofs, London$4.5kSign up
1933 Maid Drawing A Bath London$1.4kSign up
1933 ViennaUnsold
1934 After the celebration, London, 1934$541Sign up
1934 Taxi, Lower Regent Street, 1934$406Sign up

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1934 London Taxi, Lower Regent Street$2.5kSign up
1934 Attic Room$16.4kSign up
1934 After the Theatre, Taxi in Lower Regent Street$3.7kSign up
1934 Soho Bedroom$4kSign up
1934 After The Theatre, Taxi in Lower Regent Street$3.8kSign up
1934 After the Celebration$1kSign up
c. 1935 Evening in Kew Gardens, London$1.9kSign up
c. 1935 Parlourmaid and Under-Parlourmaid Ready to Serve Dinner$700Sign up
1935 Daybreak, London Bridge$6.3kSign up
1935 Daybreak, London BridgeResult not published
1936 Parlourmaid and Under-Parlourmaid Ready to Serve DinnerUnsold
1936 The Quarrel$11.3kSign up

…and 28 more works from this group in the full results list.

1940s 21 works

Sold: 16 of 21
Median: $3.9kSign up
Average: $5kSign up
Typical size: 13.5 × 11.5 in (34 × 29 cm)
Mediums: Photograph (21)
Subjects: Sunsets & night (3), Landscapes (2), Markets & villages (1)

c. 1940 Pre-war London, going out for the evening (Park Crescent)$6.4kSign up
1941 Dylan Thomas at the Salisbury Public House, London, 1941$300Sign up
1942 Deserted Street in Bloomsbury$16.4kSign up
1942 St. Paul's Cathedral in the Moonlight$4kSign up
1944 Avebury Stone Circle, Wiltshire$3.8kSign up
1944 Avebury Stone Circle, Wiltshire$4.4kSign up
1945 Yorkshire$3.8kSign up
1945 At Charlie Brown's, Limehouse$3.2kSign up
c. 1945 Selected NudesUnsold
1945 At Charlie Brown's, LimehouseUnsold
c. 1946 Hardy’s Wessex, The White Highway of Egdon Heath$10.6kSign up
1947 Skye Mountains$6.6kSign up

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1947 Gull's Nest, Late on Midsummer Night, Isle of SkyeUnsold
1947 Gull's Nest, Midsummer Eve, Isle of Skye$1.9kSign up
1948 Barbary Castle, Marlborough Downs, Wiltshire$2.2kSign up
1948 Nude, Micheldever, Hampshire$2.7kSign up
1948 Graham GreeneUnsold
1948 Barbary Castle, Marlborough Downs, WiltshireUnsold
1948 Catch point, 'Hail, Hell and Halifax'$6kSign up
1949 Nude, Campden Hill, London$3.8kSign up
1949 Nude, Campden Hill, London$3.9kSign up

1950s 53 works

Sold: 44 of 53
Median: $7.5kSign up
Average: $8.7kSign up
Typical size: 13.5 × 11.5 in (34 × 29 cm)
Mediums: Photograph (52), Other (1)
Subjects: Sea & coast (8), Landscapes (4), Beach scenes (1)

1951 Nude, St. Cyprien$8.8kSign up
1951 Campden Hill, LondonResult not published
1952 Nude, London$11.6kSign up
1952 NudeUnsold
1952 Nude, London$1.5kSign up
1952 Nude, London$4kSign up
1952 Nude, London$3.3kSign up
1952 Nude, London$10.7kSign up
1952 Nude, London$15.9kSign up
1952 Hampstead, London$3kSign up
1952 Nude, London$10.4kSign up
1952 Nude, London$3.7kSign up

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1952 Nude, London$16.3kSign up
1952 Nude, London$13kSign up
1952 Nude, London$15.5kSign up
1952 Nude, London$14.2kSign up
1952 Nude, London$17.5kSign up
1952 London$9.5kSign up
1952 Nude, London$12.7kSign up
1952 Nude, Hampstead, London$3.9kSign up
1952 London, Nude, March$22.5kSign up
1952 London$12kSign up
1952 London$15kSign up
1953 Kismet and Mirror, Belgravia, London$3.6kSign up

…and 29 more works from this group in the full results list.

1960s 16 works

Sold: 12 of 16
Median: $5.3kSign up
Average: $8.5kSign up
Typical size: 13 × 11.5 in (33 × 29 cm)
Mediums: Photograph (16)
Subjects: Landscapes (3), Sea & coast (2), Rivers & marshes (1)

1960 LondonUnsold
c. 1960 Nude, East Sussex CoastUnsold
1963 Giacometti's Left Eye$2.3kSign up
1963 Francis Bacon walking on Primrose Hill$5.3kSign up
1963 Cuckmere River, Sussex$5.1kSign up
1963 Francis Bacon walking on Primrose Hill$16kSign up
1963 Francis Bacon, Primrose Hill$40kSign up
c. 1963 Joan Miró$8.1kSign up
1964 Dubuffet working on a relief picture; Col de VenceUnsold
1964 Selected images of Joan Miró and his studio$6.3kSign up
1965 Alain Robbe-Grillet, St. Germain-des-PresUnsold
1966 René Magritte$5.7kSign up

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1966 Self Portrait with Mirror, East Sussex Coast$4kSign up
c. 1966 Self Portrait$5.3kSign up
1966 René Magritte with his picture 'The Great War', Brussels$3.9kSign up
1969 Untitled$300Sign up

1970s 12 works

Sold: 8 of 12
Median: $5.7kSign up
Average: $5.4kSign up
Typical size: 9 × 8 in (23 × 20 cm)
Mediums: Photograph (9), Other (3)
Subjects: Landscapes (7), Sea & coast (5)

1977 Campden Hill, LondonResult not published
1977 Campden Hill, LondonUnsold
1977 Campden Hill, LondonUnsold
1977 East Sussex Coast$7.5kSign up
1978 NUDE, EAST SUSSEX COAST, 17 JULY 1978, 1978 / 2004$688Sign up
1978 Campden Hill, London$3.9kSign up
1978 Campden Hill, LondonResult not published
1978 Campden Hill, London (nude with plant)$6.9kSign up
1978 Campden Hill, London$3.6kSign up
1978 East Sussex Coast$5.5kSign up
1978 East Sussex Coast$8.8kSign up
1979 East Sussex Coast$6kSign up

Creation date not recorded

22 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: $3.5kSign up
Average: $3.5kSign up
Typical size: 9 × 8 in (23 × 20 cm)
Mediums: Photograph (1)
Subjects: —

sold 2008 NUDE IN INTERIOR$3.5kSign up

Undated, sold in the 2010s 6 works

Sold: 4 of 6
Median: $5.1kSign up
Average: $7.4kSign up
Typical size: 13.5 × 11.5 in (35 × 29 cm)
Mediums: Photograph (6)
Subjects: Sunsets & night (2), Landscapes (1)

sold 2010 CAMPDEN HILL$4.5kSign up
sold 2011 Buckingham Palace, LondonUnsold
sold 2011 St Paul's Cathedral in MoonlightUnsold
sold 2011 A Snicket in Halifax$17.4kSign up
sold 2011 Untitled (nude breasts)$2kSign up
sold 2019 Soho Bedroom from a Night in London$5.8kSign up

Undated, sold in the 2020s 15 works

Sold: 12 of 15
Median: $1.4kSign up
Average: $2.3kSign up
Typical size: 13.5 × 11.5 in (34 × 29 cm)
Mediums: Photograph (15)
Subjects: Landscapes (3), Sunsets & night (2)

sold 2020 Campden Hill, LondonResult not published
sold 2022 For John Constable$1.2kSign up
sold 2022 Stonehenge$1kSign up
sold 2022 Circus Boyhood$1kSign up
sold 2022 Nude on a Patterned Floor, Belgravia$2.4kSign up
sold 2022 Race Goers$1.5kSign up

Show 6 more (2020s)

sold 2022 Nude$1.1kSign up
sold 2022 Nude$2.2kSign up
sold 2022 Francis Bacon on Primrose Hill$4kSign up
sold 2024 Late Evening in the Kitchen$1.3kSign up
sold 2024 LATE EVENING IN THE KITCHEN$1.1kSign up
sold 2024 Housewife, Bethnal Green, London$4.8kSign up

…and 3 more works from this group in the full results list.

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 Bill Brandt auction results →