František Drtikol: career timeline

Czech · 1883–1961 · Works grouped by the decade they were made (the cataloged date, or a date in the signature or title), not by sale date. 83 of 99 lots (84% 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.

František Drtikol: 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
1910s	10	7	$3.9kSign up	Photograph
1920s	40	32	$5.6kSign up	Photograph
1930s	17	17	$8.4kSign up	Photograph
1940s	14	14	$7.6kSign up	Oil
1950s	2	2	$2.5kSign up	Oil

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Year madeHeight (in)Width (in)MediumSubject

1910s 10 works

Sold: 7 of 10
Median: $3.9kSign up
Average: $4.8kSign up
Typical size: 9 × 8 in (23 × 20 cm)
Mediums: Photograph (5), Oil (2), Print (other) (2)
Subjects: Figures & portraits (4)

1910 Female Portrait$9kSign up
1911 From the Courtyards and Backyards of Old Prague$3.9kSign up
1911 U Valšů$3.9kSign up
c. 1913 Untitled (Nude with Skull)$2.8kSign up
1913 Portrait of the painter Jakub ObrovskýUnsold
1913 Nude with drapeUnsold
1918 Sitting Nude$7.2kSign up
1919 Salome with the head of John the Baptist', Prague 1919–20Unsold
1919 Nude dance study, Prague c. 1919$4.3kSign up
1919 A Portrait of Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk$2.8kSign up

1920s 40 works

Sold: 32 of 40
Median: $5.6kSign up
Average: $18.2kSign up
Typical size: 11 × 9 in (28 × 23 cm)
Mediums: Photograph (34), Print (other) (4), Etching (1)
Subjects: Abstract (4), Figures & portraits (3)

c. 1920 A Composition$929Sign up
c. 1920 Untitled (Portrait of dancer)$3.1kSign up
c. 1920 Diabolische Tänzerin$6.1kSign up
c. 1920 Untitled (Nudes)$1.1kSign up
c. 1920 Le ReposUnsold
c. 1920 L'Etude$2.1kSign up
c. 1920 Untitled$2.1kSign up
c. 1920 Untitled$1.2kSign up
1921 Woman with a Skull$4.2kSign up
1923 Ervina Kupferova$826Sign up
c. 1923 Golgota$435Sign up
1923 František Drtikol, 10 Modernist Nudes$6.6kSign up

Show 12 more (1920s)

1924 Graduates of the Institute of Vertebrate Biology, Prague 1924Unsold
c. 1924 Untitled (Children's nude)$2.6kSign up
1924 Aktstudie, Prag$12.4kSign up
1924 Nude$12.7kSign up
1925 The woman with the skull', Prague 1925$5.2kSign up
c. 1925 Nude with SkullUnsold
1925 Reclining nude, Prague c. 1925$1.9kSign up
1925 Edvard Beneš, Foreign Minister of Czechoslovakia$1.7kSign up
1925 NudeUnsold
1925 Composition$58.2kSign up
1925 Nude$106kSign up
1925 Akt$77.2kSign up

…and 16 more works from this group in the full results list.

1930s 17 works

Sold: 17 of 17
Median: $8.4kSign up
Average: $11.2kSign up
Typical size: 9.5 × 9.5 in (24 × 24 cm)
Mediums: Photograph (11), Oil (4), Drawing (1)
Subjects: Figures & portraits (5), Landscapes (1)

c. 1930 Montage with Nude Figure in a Meadow$640Sign up
c. 1930 Montage with Nude Figure on Rocks$563Sign up
c. 1930 Montage with Cut-Out Nude Figure and Flowers$1.1kSign up
c. 1930 Cut-Out Nudes$6.6kSign up
1930 Sun Beams$21.8kSign up
1930 Konvolut čtyř fotografií dekorativních motivů a reklamní leták$8.3kSign up
1930 Aktstudie$31.6kSign up
1932 Nude$1.8kSign up
1932 Les Trois Graces$16.7kSign up
1933 Scream$27.4kSign up
1934 Protection of God$19.8kSign up
c. 1935 Untitled (Dance Study Four Figures)$889Sign up

Show 5 more (1930s)

1935 Woman$21.5kSign up
1935 Convolution of six photographs from the cycle Vision, forest nymph conceptual installation$10kSign up
1937 The Ascent of the Soul$4.9kSign up
1938 Mother Earth$8.4kSign up
1939 Calling of the soul$8.4kSign up

1940s 14 works

Sold: 14 of 14
Median: $7.6kSign up
Average: $8.5kSign up
Typical size: 14 × 16 in (35 × 41 cm)
Mediums: Oil (14)
Subjects: Landscapes (2), Figures & portraits (2)

c. 1940 Nude$2.7kSign up
1942 Eve with an Apple$7.5kSign up
c. 1942 Mother Earth$5.9kSign up
1942 Double Nude$25kSign up
1944 Meditation$8.8kSign up
1944 Metamorphosis of a Body$19.5kSign up
1945 Female Nude$7.9kSign up
1946 Resting in a Garden$4.6kSign up
1946 Landscape with a Field$6.5kSign up
1948 Nude$3.3kSign up
1948 Three Women$10.4kSign up
1949 Portrait in a Cap$1.4kSign up

Show 2 more (1940s)

1949 The Dance of Souls$8.6kSign up
1949 Landscape$7.6kSign up

1950s 2 works

Sold: 2 of 2
Median: $2.5kSign up
Average: $2.5kSign up
Typical size: 21 × 21.5 in (53 × 55 cm)
Mediums: Oil (2)
Subjects: Landscapes (1)

1951 Riverside Landscape$2.4kSign up
1956 Prachovské skály$2.5kSign up

Creation date not recorded

16 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 3 works

Sold: 3 of 3
Median: $608Sign up
Average: $1.7kSign up
Typical size: 5 × 3 in (13 × 8 cm)
Mediums: Photograph (3)
Subjects: —

sold 2008 MOTHER EARTH$4.1kSign up
sold 2008 UNTITLED$608Sign up
sold 2009 UNTITLED (NUDE)$532Sign up

Undated, sold in the 2010s 4 works

Sold: 2 of 4
Median: $3.3kSign up
Average: $3.3kSign up
Typical size: 6.5 × 7.5 in (17 × 19 cm)
Mediums: Photograph (3), Etching (1)
Subjects: Abstract (1)

sold 2011 NudeUnsold
sold 2011 UNTITLED (DANCE)$4.4kSign up
sold 2015 Les Nus de DrtikolUnsold
sold 2019 Dance composition in the open air - convolute$2.3kSign up

Undated, sold in the 2020s 9 works

Sold: 2 of 9
Median: $7kSign up
Average: $7kSign up
Typical size: 8 × 9.5 in (20 × 24 cm)
Mediums: Other (6), Oil (1), Etching (1)
Subjects: Figures & portraits (1)

sold 2020 Nu FemininoResult not published
sold 2020 Nu FemininoResult not published
sold 2020 Nu FemininoResult not published
sold 2021 Nu FemininoResult not published
sold 2021 Nu FemininoResult not published
sold 2023 Nude$12.9kSign up

Show 3 more (2020s)

sold 2025 Nude of a Crucified WomanUnsold
sold 2025 Krajský Slet Sokolský v Kladně$1.1kSign up
sold 2026 UntitledUnsold

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 František Drtikol auction results →