Carl Van Vechten: career timeline

American · 1880–1964 · Works grouped by the decade they were made (the cataloged date, or a date in the signature or title), not by sale date. 17 of 22 lots (77% 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.

Carl Van Vechten: 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
1890s	1	1	$150Sign up	Photograph
1930s	9	6	$809Sign up	Photograph
1940s	3	2	$608Sign up	Photograph
1950s	4	1	$333Sign up	Photograph

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Year madeHeight (in)Width (in)MediumSubject

1890s 1 work

Sold: 1 of 1
Median: $150Sign up
Average: $150Sign up
Typical size: 10 × 6.5 in (25 × 16 cm)
Mediums: Photograph (1)
Subjects: Figures & portraits (1)

c. 1893 Portrait of Lillian Gish (1893-1994)$150Sign up

1930s 9 works

Sold: 6 of 9
Median: $809Sign up
Average: $1.8kSign up
Typical size: 9.5 × 8 in (24 × 20 cm)
Mediums: Photograph (9)
Subjects: Figures & portraits (3)

c. 1933 Group of five postcards$792Sign up
c. 1934 Selected Portraits (Including 'Jean Cocteau', 'Rufino Tamayo', 'Alexander Calder', and 'Marie Laurencin', among others)$1.8kSign up
1934 Man Ray, ParisUnsold
1934 Vincent Price$508Sign up
1934 Man Ray$6.1kSign up
1935 Gertrude SteinUnsold
1935 Joan Miró, Barcelona$508Sign up
c. 1935 Alexander Calder$826Sign up
1936 Leonor FiniUnsold

1940s 3 works

Sold: 2 of 3
Median: $608Sign up
Average: $608Sign up
Typical size: 9.5 × 8 in (24 × 20 cm)
Mediums: Photograph (3)
Subjects: —

1944 Paul Bowles$256Sign up
1948 Truman Capote$960Sign up
1948 Marlon Brando (in 'A Streetcar Named Desire')Unsold

1950s 4 works

Sold: 1 of 4
Median: $333Sign up
Average: $333Sign up
Typical size: 11 × 8 in (28 × 20 cm)
Mediums: Photograph (4)
Subjects: Figures & portraits (1)

c. 1950 Josephine Baker and Joe Bouillon$333Sign up
1955 Portrait of Albert HirschfeldResult not published
1958 'Gloria Vanderbilt'Unsold
1958 'Gloria Vanderbilt'Unsold

Creation date not recorded

5 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 1 work

Sold: 1 of 1
Median: $1.3kSign up
Average: $1.3kSign up
Typical size: 10 × 8 in (25 × 20 cm)
Mediums: Photograph (1)
Subjects: —

sold 2013 Baroness Karen Blixen (Isak Dinesen)$1.3kSign up

Undated, sold in the 2020s 4 works

Sold: 2 of 4
Median: $866Sign up
Average: $866Sign up
Typical size: 11.5 × 10 in (29 × 25 cm)
Mediums: Photograph (4)
Subjects: Figures & portraits (1)

sold 2020 Diego RiveraResult not published
sold 2020 Diego RiveraResult not published
sold 2020 Salvador Dalí and Man Ray, Paris$1kSign up
sold 2026 Jane Bowles$732Sign 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 Carl Van Vechten auction results →