Elizabeth Murray: career timeline
American · 1940–2007 · Works grouped by the decade they were made (the cataloged date, or a date in the signature or title), not by sale date. 57 of 67 lots (85% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 1 | 1 | $13.8kSign up | Oil |
| 1970s | 4 | 3 | $16.9kSign up | Oil |
| 1980s | 23 | 21 | $1.9kSign up | Lithograph |
| 1990s | 16 | 16 | $1.5kSign up | Lithograph |
| 2000s | 13 | 13 | $2.6kSign up | Lithograph |
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1960s 1 work
- Sold
- 1 of 1
- Median
- $13.8kSign up
- Average
- $13.8kSign up
- Typical size
- 26.5 × 25.5 in (67 × 65 cm)
- Mediums
- Oil (1)
- Subjects
- —
1967 N. Hollywood$13.8kSign up
1970s 4 works
- Sold
- 3 of 4
- Median
- $16.9kSign up
- Average
- $17.6kSign up
- Typical size
- 39 × 39 in (99 × 99 cm)
- Mediums
- Oil (2), Screenprint (2)
- Subjects
- —
1975 Untitled$16.9kSign up
1978 Deliver$35kSign up
1979 Mostly Mozart$910Sign up
1979 Untitled (Mostly Mozart Festival)Unsold
1980s 23 works
- Sold
- 21 of 23
- Median
- $1.9kSign up
- Average
- $3.7kSign up
- Typical size
- 41 × 31 in (104 × 79 cm)
- Mediums
- Lithograph (14), Pastel (5), Drawing (2)
- Subjects
- —
1980 Untitled (Krakow 8)$512Sign up
c. 1980 Untitled$12.1kSign up
1981 Untitled (3)$3.5kSign up
1982 Untitled; Sniff; and Snake Cup$814Sign up
1984 Snake Cup$1.7kSign up
1984 Hold On$6.4kSign up
1984 Untitled (Black Cup)$1.1kSign up
1984 Snake Cup (K. 11)$1.8kSign up
1984 Untitled (Black Cup)$1.4kSign up
1985 Untitled$1.9kSign up
1985 Untitled$8.8kSign up
c. 1986 Blue Body$1.5kSign up
Show 11 more (1980s)
1986 Untitled, May 1986$7.7kSign up
c. 1986 Blue Body, 1986-87Unsold
c. 1987 Up Dog (K. 18)$5.3kSign up
1988 Crumpled Table$12kSign up
c. 1988 Her Story$1.9kSign up
1988 Undoing$1.2kSign up
1988 Untitled (2)$3.4kSign up
1988 UndoingUnsold
1988 Down Dog$2.1kSign up
c. 1989 Undoing (K. 24)$953Sign up
c. 1989 Undoing (K. 24)$1.3kSign up
1990s 16 works
- Sold
- 16 of 16
- Median
- $1.5kSign up
- Average
- $14.8kSign up
- Typical size
- 15.5 × 16 in (40 × 41 cm)
- Mediums
- Lithograph (6), Screenprint (2), Oil (1)
- Subjects
- —
1990 2. B.!$200kSign up
1990 Spring$1.8kSign up
1992 Wiggle Manhattan$2kSign up
1992 Wiggle Manhattan$4.8kSign up
1992 Wiggle Manhattan$3.5kSign up
1993 Dress on Grass$10.9kSign up
1993 The Clock$508Sign up
1993 Bulb$254Sign up
1993 Shoe String$5.7kSign up
1994 Shack$2.6kSign up
1995 Deep Bite$264Sign up
1995 Flying A$726Sign up
Show 4 more (1990s)
1997 1 Reason$1.2kSign up
1997 1 Reason$1.3kSign up
1998 Charlotte (Poetry Project Print)$252Sign up
1998 Charlotte (Poetry Project Print)$693Sign up
2000s 13 works
- Sold
- 13 of 13
- Median
- $2.6kSign up
- Average
- $5.2kSign up
- Typical size
- 18 × 15.5 in (45 × 39 cm)
- Mediums
- Lithograph (6), Watercolor (3), Drawing (2)
- Subjects
- —
2000 Inner Life$12.1kSign up
2001 Foot Stairs Dog$7kSign up
2001 Blue Shadow$6.4kSign up
2001 Untitled from Doctors of the World portfolio$1kSign up
2002 Study for "Bop"$3.8kSign up
2004 Tybid$452Sign up
2004 We Meet Again$2kSign up
2004 Tybid$344Sign up
2004 Tybid$213Sign up
2004 We Meet Again$750Sign up
2005 Eleventh, The Metropolitan Series (Gemini 2025)$2.6kSign up
2006 Pico$25.2kSign up
Show 1 more (2000s)
2006 This Train$5.3kSign up
Creation date not recorded
10 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 4 works
Undated, sold in the 2020s 6 works
- Sold
- 6 of 6
- Median
- $1.8kSign up
- Average
- $1.6kSign up
- Typical size
- 20.5 × 30 in (52 × 76 cm)
- Mediums
- Lithograph (4), Screenprint (1), Pastel (1)
- Subjects
- —
sold 2021 Hand-Colored$2.1kSign up
sold 2021 Untitled$2.1kSign up
sold 2021 Her Story portfolio$2.8kSign up
sold 2022 Untitled$1.5kSign up
sold 2024 The Clock$400Sign up
sold 2026 Untitled (Elliptical Shapes)$650Sign 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 Elizabeth Murray auction results →