Elizabeth Rivers: career timeline

British · 1903–1964 · Few works by Elizabeth Rivers have a recorded creation date (18 of 113), so works are grouped by the decade they were sold, not made. Each work is shown once, even when it sold more than once.

Elizabeth Rivers: works at auction by decade the work was sold (creation dates are not recorded for most of these works). Each work counted once; medians use sold works only, in US dollars.

Decade sold	Works	Sold	Median sold price	Main medium
2000s	14	12	$949Sign up	Oil
2010s	32	25	$669Sign up	Oil
2020s	67	56	$601Sign up	Drawing

Sold in the 2000s 14 works

Sold: 12 of 14
Median: $949Sign up
Average: $1.3kSign up
Typical size: 14 × 15 in (36 × 38 cm)
Mediums: Oil (7), Drawing (3), Woodcut / linocut (2)
Subjects: Cattle & animals (2), Figures & portraits (2), Sea & coast (1)

sold 2000 THE WAKE$1.3kSign up
sold 2001 OIL SKETCH OF COWS IN PASTURE, ARAN$968Sign up
1933 WOMAN IN GREEN HAT$909Sign up
sold 2003 PSALM$824Sign up
sold 2003 ARAN FISHERMEN SORTING NETS$767Sign up
sold 2005 SEASCAPE$1.3kSign up · sold 2×
sold 2005 OLD MAN, ARAN ISLANDS and YOUNG MAN, ARAN ISLANDS (A PAIR)$4kSign up
sold 2005 WINTER SKIES$708Sign up
1932 STILL LIFEUnsold
1964 WEST OF IRELAND$929Sign up · sold 2×
c. 1953 STUDY FOR ZETLAND HOTEL MURAL, CASHEL, COUNTY GALWAYUnsold
sold 2006 Out of Bedlam: XXVII wood engravings by Elizabeth Rivers with texts from Christopher Smart$614Sign up

Show 2 more (2000s)

c. 1935 ARAN SEASHORE AND SEAWEED$2.4kSign up
c. 1947 HORSES GRAZING ON ARAN$1.1kSign up

Sold in the 2010s 32 works

Sold: 25 of 32
Median: $669Sign up
Average: $1.1kSign up
Typical size: 10 × 9 in (25 × 23 cm)
Mediums: Oil (12), Woodcut / linocut (10), Drawing (4)
Subjects: Figures & portraits (5), Birds (2), Cattle & animals (2)

sold 2010 IRELAND, THE ARAN ISLANDS$690Sign up
sold 2011 OUT OF BEDLAM, XXVII WOOD ENGRAVINGS BY ELIZABETH RIVERS WITH TEXTS FROM CHRISTOPHER SMART$589Sign up
sold 2011 IRELAND, THE ARAN ISLANDS$669Sign up
sold 2011 IRELAND, THE ARAN ISLANDS$457Sign up
sold 2012 DESIGN FOR MURAL, ZETLAND ARMS HOTEL, CASHEL, COUNTY GALWAYUnsold
1932 WOMAN SEATED$784Sign up
sold 2013 PORTRAIT OF A WOMAN$568Sign up
sold 2013 Untitled$535Sign up
sold 2013 Untitled$866Sign up
sold 2014 FISHERMENUnsold
sold 2014 HORSEMAN, ARAN HARBOUR and EARLY MORNING, ARAN ISLANDS (A PAIR)Unsold
sold 2016 SEARCHING FOR THE STAR and MONK WITH THREE BIRDS (A PAIR)$201Sign up

Show 12 more (2010s)

sold 2016 FACEUnsold
sold 2016 HEAR NO EVIL, SPEAK NO EVIL$1.9kSign up
1931 THE LADDER$260Sign up
sold 2017 FACE$118Sign up
1931 NUDE, PARIS$1.2kSign up
sold 2017 THE ESCAPE, WOMAN AND BIRD, BIRD AND TREE, COUNTRY HOMESTEAD and UNTITLED (SET OF FIVE)$493Sign up
sold 2017 BULLY BOYS$1.1kSign up
sold 2017 INK DRAWING AND OTHER ITEMS (SET OF SIX)Unsold
sold 2017 FACEUnsold
sold 2017 WOMAN WASHING HER HAIR$367Sign up
1956 OUT OF BEDLAM [1956], THIS MAN [1939] and A COLLECTION OF 15 ENGRAVINGS FOR THE WAGER & OTHER STORIES [1950]$1.6kSign up
sold 2017 FIGURES IN COASTAL LANDSCAPE$448Sign up

…and 8 more works from this group in the full results list.

Sold in the 2020s 67 works

Sold: 56 of 67
Median: $601Sign up
Average: $825Sign up
Typical size: 11 × 10 in (28 × 25 cm)
Mediums: Drawing (17), Oil (16), Woodcut / linocut (13)
Subjects: Figures & portraits (10), Boats (3), Sea & coast (2)

sold 2020 Sleeping Boy$527Sign up
sold 2020 An Aran Woman$456Sign up
sold 2020 LINO BLOCKS for THE DOVE: A CHRISTMAS SERIES & WOODBLOCKS: THE LADDER and TEXTILE DESIGN (SET OF NINE)$650Sign up
sold 2021 MOSES AND THE RED SEA$180Sign up
sold 2021 Aran Island FerryUnsold
sold 2021 Horseman, Aran Harbour$1.5kSign up
sold 2021 Moored Boats$261Sign up
sold 2021 The HarpistUnsold
sold 2021 Study for Stained Glass Window$773Sign up
sold 2021 MOORED BOATS$206Sign up
sold 2021 Madonna and Child$1.8kSign up
1931 Nude Study$2.1kSign up

Show 12 more (2020s)

sold 2021 Mother and Child$1.3kSign up
sold 2021 Landscape with Houses$1.1kSign up
sold 2022 THREE MEN WITH A LADDER$234Sign up
sold 2022 Woman Washing Her Hair$350Sign up
sold 2022 IRELAND, THE ARAN ISLANDS$635Sign up
sold 2022 Aran Horses$1.6kSign up
1962 SAINT ALONE$592Sign up
sold 2022 COLLECTING KELP ON ARAN$395Sign up
sold 2022 Afternoon Chat$2.7kSign up
sold 2023 Our Lady of the Apocalypse$602Sign up
sold 2023 The Dove of Peace (Design for stained glass)$712Sign up
sold 2023 Mother and Child$1kSign up

…and 43 more works from this group in the full results list.

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 Rivers auction results →