Břetislav Benda: career timeline

Czech · 1897–1983 · Works grouped by the decade they were made (the cataloged date, or a date in the signature or title), not by sale date. 31 of 39 lots (79% 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.

Břetislav Benda: 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
1920s	8	8	$3.1kSign up	Sculpture
1930s	10	9	$8kSign up	Sculpture
1940s	9	9	$13.2kSign up	Sculpture
1950s	2	2	$13.7kSign up	Sculpture
1960s	1	1	$63.1kSign up	Sculpture
1970s	1	1	$26.8kSign up	Sculpture

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Year madeHeight (in)Width (in)MediumSubject

1920s 8 works

Sold: 8 of 8
Median: $3.1kSign up
Average: $3.9kSign up
Typical size: 10 × 15.5 in (25 × 40 cm)
Mediums: Sculpture (8)
Subjects: —

1930s 10 works

Sold: 9 of 10
Median: $8kSign up
Average: $6.3kSign up
Typical size: 30.5 × 13 in (77 × 33 cm)
Mediums: Sculpture (10)
Subjects: Sunsets & night (1), Figures & portraits (1)

1940s 9 works

Sold: 9 of 9
Median: $13.2kSign up
Average: $16.4kSign up
Typical size: 22.5 × 16.5 in (58 × 42 cm)
Mediums: Sculpture (8), Other (1)
Subjects: Figures & portraits (2)

1940 Combing$2.3kSign up
1940 Kľačiaci akt$731Sign up
1940 Akt - zamyslená$995Sign up
1941 Andromeda$12.3kSign up
1941 Woman Lying in Bath with Drapery$43.6kSign up
1943 Morning – Getting Undressed$22.4kSign up
1943 Torso of a Young Woman$24.5kSign up
1943 Morning / Getting Undressed$27.5kSign up
1944 A Memory$13.2kSign up

1950s 2 works

Sold: 2 of 2
Median: $13.7kSign up
Average: $13.7kSign up
Typical size: —
Mediums: Sculpture (2)
Subjects: —

1955 Morning – In the Bath$15.5kSign up
1956 Torso with Long Hair$11.8kSign up

1960s 1 work

Sold: 1 of 1
Median: $63.1kSign up
Average: $63.1kSign up
Typical size: —
Mediums: Sculpture (1)
Subjects: —

1961 Leda with the Swan$63.1kSign up

1970s 1 work

Sold: 1 of 1
Median: $26.8kSign up
Average: $26.8kSign up
Typical size: —
Mediums: Sculpture (1)
Subjects: Figures & portraits (1)

1973 Young Woman in the Sun$26.8kSign up

Creation date not recorded

8 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 5 works

Sold: 5 of 5
Median: $1kSign up
Average: $1.1kSign up
Typical size: —
Mediums: Sculpture (5)
Subjects: —

sold 2012 Kľačiaci akt$1kSign up
sold 2012 Akt v zamyslení$1.2kSign up
sold 2013 Sediaci akt$1kSign up
sold 2015 Kľačiaci akt II$1.7kSign up
sold 2017 Žena s dieťaťom$793Sign up

Undated, sold in the 2020s 3 works

Sold: 1 of 3
Median: $5.1kSign up
Average: $5.1kSign up
Typical size: —
Mediums: Sculpture (2), Other (1)
Subjects: Figures & portraits (2)

sold 2024 carved white marble figure of a kneeling maiden$5.1kSign up
sold 2024 carved white marble figure of a kneeling maidenUnsold
sold 2026 Standing Female Nude (sculpture)Unsold

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 Břetislav Benda auction results →