George Papazov: career timeline

Bulgarian · 1894–1972 · Works grouped by the decade they were made (the cataloged date, or a date in the signature or title), not by sale date. 12 of 23 lots (52% 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.

George Papazov: 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
1920s	6	3	$5.6kSign up	Watercolor
1930s	2	2	$25.1kSign up	Oil
1950s	3	2	$10.8kSign up	Oil
1960s	1	1	$926Sign up	Drawing

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Year madeHeight (in)Width (in)MediumSubject

1920s 6 works

Sold: 3 of 6
Median: $5.6kSign up
Average: $7.5kSign up
Typical size: 15 × 18 in (39 × 46 cm)
Mediums: Watercolor (2), Gouache (1), Etching (1)
Subjects: Figures & portraits (1)

1930s 2 works

Sold: 2 of 2
Median: $25.1kSign up
Average: $25.1kSign up
Typical size: 20.5 × 18 in (52 × 45 cm)
Mediums: Oil (2)
Subjects: —

c. 1930 Forms detaching the earth$30kSign up
1939 Impresion d’une Catedral$20.1kSign up

1950s 3 works

Sold: 2 of 3
Median: $10.8kSign up
Average: $10.8kSign up
Typical size: 28 × 22 in (72 × 56 cm)
Mediums: Oil (2), Drawing (1)
Subjects: —

c. 1950 The wrestlers (from The Gladiators Cycle)$1.2kSign up
c. 1950 Selfportrait. Souvenir de Derain$20.4kSign up
1956 The GladiatorsUnsold

1960s 1 work

Sold: 1 of 1
Median: $926Sign up
Average: $926Sign up
Typical size: —
Mediums: Drawing (1)
Subjects: —

1968 Silhouettes and Shadows$926Sign up

Creation date not recorded

11 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 2020s 11 works

Sold: 8 of 11
Median: $1.2kSign up
Average: $2.2kSign up
Typical size: 7.5 × 5.5 in (19 × 15 cm)
Mediums: Etching (6), Drawing (3), Oil (1)
Subjects: Figures & portraits (4), Birds (1)

sold 2024 Surrealist portrait$735Sign up
sold 2024 Fantastic creatures$7.1kSign up
sold 2024 Dialogue$1.5kSign up
sold 2025 Pierrot and the bird$1.1kSign up
sold 2025 Surrealists characters$463Sign up
sold 2025 CharacterUnsold

Show 5 more (2020s)

sold 2025 Surrealist portrait$1kSign up
sold 2025 SENZA TITOLO$4.7kSign up
sold 2026 Surrealist PortraitUnsold
sold 2026 The ExplorersUnsold
sold 2026 Surrealist portrait$1.4kSign 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 George Papazov auction results →