Fred Machetanz: career timeline

American · 1908–2002 · Works grouped by the decade they were made (the cataloged date, or a date in the signature or title), not by sale date. 33 of 34 lots (97% 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.

Fred Machetanz: 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
1950s	3	3	$4.4kSign up	Watercolor
1960s	9	9	$14kSign up	Oil
1970s	11	10	$19.6kSign up	Oil
1980s	7	6	$10.8kSign up	Oil
1990s	2	2	$12kSign up	Oil

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Year madeHeight (in)Width (in)MediumSubject

1950s 3 works

Sold: 3 of 3
Median: $4.4kSign up
Average: $4.2kSign up
Typical size: 15 × 21 in (38 × 53 cm)
Mediums: Watercolor (2), Oil (1)
Subjects: —

1960s 9 works

Sold: 9 of 9
Median: $14kSign up
Average: $15.6kSign up
Typical size: 22 × 28 in (56 × 71 cm)
Mediums: Oil (9)
Subjects: Sunsets & night (2)

1963 Old Dependable$12.1kSign up
1963 Winter Night$17.6kSign up
1963 Closing In, High Ridge, Palmer, Alaska$9kSign up
1964 Winter Day$9.5kSign up
1965 Out from the Snowfields$14kSign up
1965 Sledding Through the Arctic Night$13.3kSign up
1966 Two Hunters$23.8kSign up
1968 The Hunters$17.9kSign up
1969 The Prowler$23kSign up

1970s 11 works

Sold: 10 of 11
Median: $19.6kSign up
Average: $21.4kSign up
Typical size: 26 × 32 in (66 × 81 cm)
Mediums: Oil (11)
Subjects: Sunsets & night (2)

1970 Ice Fall – Knik Glacier$18.1kSign up
1970 He Who Hunts Alone$35.7kSign up
1970 Night Hunter$10kSign up
1971 A Sound in the Silence$9.5kSign up
1972 Arctic Monarch$33.3kSign up
1972 The Bootmakers$21.8kSign up
1975 The Berry Pickers$18.1kSign up
1975 Out of the NightUnsold
1976 Gee Poling$17kSign up · sold 2×
1976 Breaking Trail$29.3kSign up
1978 King of the Mountain$21.1kSign up

1980s 7 works

Sold: 6 of 7
Median: $10.8kSign up
Average: $13.9kSign up
Typical size: 15 × 19 in (38 × 48 cm)
Mediums: Oil (6), Lithograph (1)
Subjects: Sea & coast (1)

c. 1980 Winter Preparation, 1980s$213Sign up
1980 The Chief Dances$35.1kSign up
1981 Back Off$22.6kSign up
1981 Study - Winter Harvest$3.8kSign up
1983 Moving Ahead, Palmer, AKResult not published
1983 Nanook$11.9kSign up
1986 Sunlit Sea$9.7kSign up

1990s 2 works

Sold: 2 of 2
Median: $12kSign up
Average: $12kSign up
Typical size: 14 × 18 in (35 × 45 cm)
Mediums: Oil (2)
Subjects: —

1990 Land of Long Shadows$18.7kSign up
1992 Friends of Many Miles$5.4kSign up

Creation date not recorded

1 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 1 work

Sold: 1 of 1
Median: $14kSign up
Average: $14kSign up
Typical size: 16 × 20 in (41 × 51 cm)
Mediums: Oil (1)
Subjects: —

sold 2019 Which Way!$14kSign 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 Fred Machetanz auction results →