Eadweard Muybridge: career timeline
American · 1830–1904 · Works grouped by the decade they were made (the cataloged date, or a date in the signature or title), not by sale date. 38 of 44 lots (86% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1870s | 5 | 3 | $4.6kSign up | Photograph |
| 1880s | 33 | 32 | $449Sign up | Print (other) |
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1870s 5 works
- Sold
- 3 of 5
- Median
- $4.6kSign up
- Average
- $4.3kSign up
- Typical size
- 4.5 × 8 in (11 × 20 cm)
- Mediums
- Photograph (5)
- Subjects
- Markets & villages (2), Cattle & animals (2), Landscapes (1)
1872 Discovery Rocks, Valley of the Yosemite$1.9kSign up
1877 Panorama of San Francisco, from California Street HillUnsold
1877 Panorama of San Francisco, from California Street HillUnsold
c. 1878 Horse Running (from 'Attitudes of Animals in Motion')$6.4kSign up
1878 'Abe Edgington' Trotting at a 2:24 Gait over the Palo Alto track, 15 June 1878, aus der Serie „The Horse in Motion$4.6kSign up
1880s 33 works
- Sold
- 32 of 33
- Median
- $449Sign up
- Average
- $1.2kSign up
- Typical size
- 13.5 × 19.5 in (34 × 50 cm)
- Mediums
- Print (other) (31), Photograph (2)
- Subjects
- Cattle & animals (2), Figures & portraits (1)
c. 1880 Motion Study, Horse and Rider$8.2kSign up
1881 Animal Locomotion, HorseUnsold
1887 Plate 707 (from the Animal Locomotion series)$448Sign up
1887 Plate 56 (from the Animal Locomotion series)$384Sign up
1887 Female Nude Descending a Plank, plate 117, from Animal Locomotion: An Electro-Photographic Investigation of Consecutive Phases of Animal Movements$1.5kSign up
1887 Female Nude Ascending a Staircase, plate 98, from Animal Locomotion: An Electro-Photographic Investigation of Consecutive Phases of Animal Movements$1.3kSign up
1887 Animal Locomotion (Plate 247)$3.3kSign up
1887 Plate 765 (from the Animal Locomotion series)$1.1kSign up
1887 Plate 758 (from the Animal Locomotion series)$990Sign up
1887 Plate 594 (from the Animal Locomotion series)$330Sign up
1887 Plate 180; Plate 325; Plate 458; Plate 707; Plate 748 (five works from the Animal Locomotion series)$762Sign up
1887 Plate 586 (from the Animal Locomotion series)$191Sign up
Show 12 more (1880s)
1887 Plate 646 (from the Animal Locomotion series)$254Sign up
1887 Plate 585 (from the Animal Locomotion series)$127Sign up
1887 Plate 742 (from the Animal Locomotion series)$264Sign up
1887 Plate 545 (from the Animal Locomotion series)$191Sign up
1887 Plate 483 (from the Animal Locomotion series)$330Sign up
1887 Plate 780 (from the Animal Locomotion series)$64Sign up
1887 Plate 354 (from the Animal Locomotion series)$66Sign up
1887 Plate 355 (from the Animal Locomotion series)$66Sign up
1887 Plate 158 (from the Animal Locomotion series)$594Sign up
1887 Plate 180 (from the Animal Locomotion series)$528Sign up
1887 Animal Locomotion (Plate 233)$333Sign up
1887 Animal Locomotion (Plate 97)$307Sign up
…and 9 more works from this group in the full results list.
Creation date not recorded
6 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 2003 Animal Locomotion Plate 735$300Sign up
Undated, sold in the 2010s 4 works
sold 2018 Untitled$3.3kSign up
sold 2018 Tenaya Cañon from Union Point Valley of the Yosemite$2.5kSign up
sold 2019 Valley of the Yosemite from Union Point$3kSign up
sold 2019 Yosemite$2.6kSign up
Undated, sold in the 2020s 1 work
- Sold
- 0 of 1
- Median
- —
- Average
- —
- Typical size
- 17 × 21.5 in (43 × 55 cm)
- Mediums
- Drawing (1)
- Subjects
- Landscapes (1)
sold 2020 Wild Cat Fall, Valley Of The VosemiteResult not published
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 Eadweard Muybridge auction results →