Charles Green Shaw: career timeline

American · 1892–1974 · Works grouped by the decade they were made (the cataloged date, or a date in the signature or title), not by sale date. 53 of 66 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.

Charles Green Shaw: 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	12	12	$15.2kSign up	Oil
1940s	18	18	$15.2kSign up	Oil
1950s	8	6	$1.2kSign up	Oil
1960s	8	6	$4.7kSign up	Oil
1970s	2	2	$2.8kSign up	Oil

Where does mine fit?

Enter what you know about a work by Charles Green Shaw to see the closest recorded works from the same period, with their auction results. These are past records only, not a valuation: condition, authenticity, provenance and the market all change what a work brings. For an auction estimate of your work, get a free auction estimate.

Year madeHeight (in)Width (in)MediumSubject

1930s 12 works

Sold: 12 of 12
Median: $15.2kSign up
Average: $15.7kSign up
Typical size: 16 × 13 in (41 × 34 cm)
Mediums: Oil (10), Mixed media (1), Gouache (1)
Subjects: Abstract (3), Flowers & still life (1), Figures & portraits (1)

c. 1930 Untitled (City Skyline)$10kSign up
c. 1930 Untitled (City Skyline)$15kSign up
c. 1932 Untitled (Cubist Composition with Guitar)$24.3kSign up
c. 1932 The McCord Sisters' Duet$13.8kSign up · sold 2×
1932 Still Life with Rye$22.4kSign up
c. 1935 Montage$528Sign up · sold 2×
1935 An Organized Escape$14.1kSign up · sold 2×
1935 Untitled (Plastic Polygon Abstract Form)$20.4kSign up
1935 Folded Form$19.1kSign up
1935 Anniversary$15.3kSign up
1935 La Femme Picasso$21.6kSign up
1939 Untitled (Gray Abstract)$11.3kSign up

1940s 18 works

Sold: 18 of 18
Median: $15.2kSign up
Average: $21.4kSign up
Typical size: 12 × 13 in (31 × 33 cm)
Mediums: Oil (17), Other (1)
Subjects: Abstract (4), Sunsets & night (1), Figures & portraits (1)

c. 1940 Untitled (Blue and White Abstraction)$4kSign up
c. 1940 Untitled (Blue and White Abstraction)$3.5kSign up
1940 Untitled (Brown Abstract)$15.1kSign up
1940 Untitled (Abstract on White)$68.8kSign up
c. 1940 untitled (Abstract Construction)$15.3kSign up
1940 Abstract in Black, White and Grey$14.9kSign up
1941 Untitled$25.4kSign up
1941 Non Objective Plasticity$16.3kSign up
1941 Buildings in a Night Sky$17.5kSign up
1941 Homage to Klee$5.8kSign up
1941 Untitled (Abstraction)$12.7kSign up
1942 Kite Abstraction$16.5kSign up

Show 6 more (1940s)

1944 La Femme de Toulouse$7kSign up · sold 2×
1944 Summer Day Dream$10.2kSign up
c. 1945 Birth of a Dream$5.4kSign up · sold 2×
1945 Untitled (Atomic Flight)$93.8kSign up
1948 Fifth Avenue$37.6kSign up
1949 New England Church$15.4kSign up

1950s 8 works

Sold: 6 of 8
Median: $1.2kSign up
Average: $3.2kSign up
Typical size: 9.5 × 8 in (24 × 21 cm)
Mediums: Oil (6), Gouache (2)
Subjects: Flowers & still life (1), Sunsets & night (1)

1952 Still LifeResult not published
1954 Forms in Flight [Armageddon]Result not published
1955 Opus One$11.4kSign up
1956 Heroes and Views$3.6kSign up
c. 1956 Cool of Dawn$1.1kSign up
1957 New Day$1.1kSign up
1957 Untitled$1.3kSign up
1959 Ice Bound$995Sign up

1960s 8 works

Sold: 6 of 8
Median: $4.7kSign up
Average: $4.5kSign up
Typical size: 12 × 16 in (31 × 41 cm)
Mediums: Oil (7), Acrylic (1)
Subjects: —

c. 1960 Flotilla$1.1kSign up
1960 Dissolution$1.5kSign up
c. 1960 Untitled$7.5kSign up
c. 1960 Untitled$6.3kSign up
c. 1963 Before The StormResult not published
1963 Identity 2$3.1kSign up
1965 Untitled; Untitled, 1965 (2)Unsold
1967 Complex in Green$7.6kSign up

1970s 2 works

Sold: 2 of 2
Median: $2.8kSign up
Average: $2.8kSign up
Typical size: 11.5 × 8 in (29 × 21 cm)
Mediums: Oil (2)
Subjects: —

c. 1970 Quartet #8$2kSign up
1971 Divided Circle - 10$3.7kSign up

Creation date not recorded

13 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 2 works

Sold: 2 of 2
Median: $7.5kSign up
Average: $7.5kSign up
Typical size: 8.5 × 14 in (22 × 36 cm)
Mediums: Mixed media (1), Oil (1)
Subjects: Abstract (1)

sold 2007 Montage (No.246); Montage (No.247) (a pair)$2.4kSign up
sold 2008 Abstract$12.7kSign up

Undated, sold in the 2010s 7 works

Sold: 7 of 7
Median: $10kSign up
Average: $16.9kSign up
Typical size: 11 × 12 in (28 × 31 cm)
Mediums: Oil (5), Other (2)
Subjects: Abstract (4)

sold 2010 Shapes$3.2kSign up
sold 2016 Quartet$5.3kSign up
sold 2018 Untitled (Abstract Trapezoid)$10kSign up
sold 2018 Untitled (Abstract Circles, Ovals and Triangle)$47.5kSign up
sold 2018 Montages$4.4kSign up
sold 2019 Untitled (Pink, Yellow and Blue Abstract)$13.8kSign up

Show 1 more (2010s)

sold 2019 Untitled (Red, Yellow and Blue Abstract)$33.8kSign up

Undated, sold in the 2020s 4 works

Sold: 3 of 4
Median: $1.7kSign up
Average: $1.9kSign up
Typical size: 15.5 × 11.5 in (39 × 30 cm)
Mediums: Oil (2), Other (1), Mixed media (1)
Subjects: —

sold 2021 Smokers Prefer Shell$1.7kSign up
sold 2024 Winterset$2.8kSign up
sold 2024 End of SummerUnsold
sold 2025 Untitled (Color Squares)$1.1kSign 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 Charles Green Shaw auction results →