George Rickey: career timeline
American · 1907–2002 · Works grouped by the decade they were made (the cataloged date, or a date in the signature or title), not by sale date. 116 of 128 lots (91% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1930s | 1 | 1 | $300Sign up | Drawing |
| 1940s | 1 | 1 | $1.4kSign up | Screenprint |
| 1950s | 1 | 0 | — | Sculpture |
| 1960s | 15 | 14 | $40.9kSign up | Sculpture |
| 1970s | 40 | 37 | $37.8kSign up | Sculpture |
| 1980s | 28 | 27 | $37.8kSign up | Sculpture |
| 1990s | 28 | 25 | $20kSign up | Sculpture |
| 2000s | 2 | 1 | $4.2kSign up | Sculpture |
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1930s 1 work
- Sold
- 1 of 1
- Median
- $300Sign up
- Average
- $300Sign up
- Typical size
- 8.5 × 11 in (21 × 28 cm)
- Mediums
- Drawing (1)
- Subjects
- Beach scenes (1)
1932 Three Nudes on a Beach$300Sign up
1940s 1 work
1950s 1 work
- Sold
- 0 of 1
- Median
- —
- Average
- —
- Typical size
- 84 × 36 in (213 × 91 cm)
- Mediums
- Sculpture (1)
- Subjects
- —
1958 Ommaggio a Bernini Variation IIIUnsold
1960s 15 works
- Sold
- 14 of 15
- Median
- $40.9kSign up
- Average
- $57.6kSign up
- Typical size
- 36 × 6 in (91 × 15 cm)
- Mediums
- Sculpture (15)
- Subjects
- Flowers & still life (1)
1962 Little Flower with Lead (Bouquet, Small Series #6)$43.8kSign up
1962 Tidal IV$119kSign up
1963 Sedge with Trapezoids$40.6kSign up
1964 Single Line“ or „One Line Horizontal$13.4kSign up
1964 Ohne Titel (Single line)$16.3kSign up
1966 Inverted Column$41.3kSign up
1966 Inverted Column$40.3kSign up
1966 Inverted ColumnUnsold
1966 Broken Line (Two Lines Horizontal)$40kSign up
1966 Two Lines Up$41.3kSign up
1966 Two Up – One Down$214kSign up
1966 Four lines up$65.8kSign up
Show 3 more (1960s)
1967 N Lines Vertical$90.3kSign up
1967 Single Plane$5.3kSign up
1968 Three Lines Up Contrapuntal$35.3kSign up
1970s 40 works
- Sold
- 37 of 40
- Median
- $37.8kSign up
- Average
- $62.1kSign up
- Typical size
- 39.5 × 24 in (100 × 61 cm)
- Mediums
- Sculpture (40)
- Subjects
- —
1970 Lumina IV$50.8kSign up
1970 Three Blades$37.5kSign up
1970 Ohne Titel (Floating point)$19.6kSign up
1970 Twenty Squares Two Cubes II$49kSign up
1972 Two Lines Horizontal II$28.1kSign up
c. 1972 Four Rectangles Oblique II$138kSign up
1972 Mäander$13.9kSign up
1972 Four Fixed Three Moving Lines$128kSign up
1973 Two open rectangles excentric- variation VIII$60kSign up
1973 Four Rectangles Broken Line$104kSign up
1973 Mäander$31.5kSign up
1974 One Up One Down Oblique II$29kSign up
Show 12 more (1970s)
1974 Two Planes Vertical Diagonal, Vis a Vis$68.8kSign up
1974 Space Churn with Cams VI$37.8kSign up
1974 Space Churn with Cams VIUnsold
1975 Column of Six Lines with Gimbals$15.2kSign up
1975 Two Fixed Two Moving Lines III$32.8kSign up
1975 Untitled (Study for Schiphol Airport Commission)$32kSign up
1975 Two fixed two moving lines variation I$36.9kSign up
1975 Two Lines Up Excentric, Variation III$240kSign up
1975 Mäander$8.4kSign up
1976 Divided Quadrilateral I$35.8kSign up
1976 Weathervane$20.2kSign up
1976 Theme on Two Triangles$45kSign up
…and 16 more works from this group in the full results list.
1980s 28 works
- Sold
- 27 of 28
- Median
- $37.8kSign up
- Average
- $88.1kSign up
- Typical size
- 26 × 23.5 in (66 × 60 cm)
- Mediums
- Sculpture (27), Other (1)
- Subjects
- —
1980 Open Rectangles One Up One Down Excentric Variation III$46.9kSign up
1980 One Up One Down$296kSign up
c. 1981 Three Open Triangles Horizontal$28.4kSign up
1981 Two Up, Two Down Excentric Askew II$201kSign up
1981 One Fixed, Three Moving Lines, Wall II$139kSign up
c. 1982 Four Squares Diagonal IIIUnsold
1982 Three Right Angles Horizontal Variation III$462Sign up
1982 Four Lines in a T II$37.8kSign up
1982 One Line Leaning$22.5kSign up
1982 Vier vertikale Quadrate$46.8kSign up
1983 Divided Square Oblique IV$27.9kSign up
1983 Two Open Triangles U p IV$74.6kSign up
Show 12 more (1980s)
1983 Acute L´s One Up One Down Excentric$148kSign up
c. 1984 Etoile X$63.5kSign up
1984 One Fixed One Moving Line Spread$22.7kSign up
1984 Three Lines Diagonal Jointed – Wall$106kSign up
1984 Three Open Parallelepipeds$16.1kSign up
1985 Three Open Parallelepipeds$24.5kSign up
1985 Four lines oblique VI$49.5kSign up
1986 Four Trapezoids as Two Rectangles III$243kSign up
1986 One Up One Down V$25.2kSign up
1988 Two Up, One Down$32.8kSign up
1988 Triple N Gyratory II$508kSign up
1988 Four open rectangles diagonal jointed III$115kSign up
…and 4 more works from this group in the full results list.
1990s 28 works
- Sold
- 25 of 28
- Median
- $20kSign up
- Average
- $56.3kSign up
- Typical size
- 7.5 × 7 in (19 × 17 cm)
- Mediums
- Sculpture (25), Drawing (1), Other (1)
- Subjects
- Flowers & still life (2), Landscapes (1), Sunsets & night (1)
1990 Three Lines up Staggered$48.5kSign up
1990 Sequence of Six LinesUnsold
1990 Three Lines Up Staggered$40.3kSign up
1990 Triangles one up, one down excentric$136kSign up
1990 Three rectangles horizontal jointed gyratory$258kSign up
c. 1991 Three Oblique Lines Conical Path III$165kSign up
1991 Twenty-Eight Rotors Two Solids$68.8kSign up
1991 2 Red Lines$53.1kSign up
1993 One Plane Horizontal Bronze$16.1kSign up
1993 Two Rotors One Rectangle$32.5kSign up
1993 Double L Excentric Gyratory VIUnsold
1993 Six Squares Excentric$303kSign up
Show 12 more (1990s)
1993 Study for Sculpture$480Sign up
1994 One Line down$17.6kSign up
1994 Four Cubes with Gimbal IIUnsold
1994 Untitled (Balancing Form)$10.2kSign up
1995 Pivoted Folds (Cubist)$9.5kSign up
1995 Untitled (Summer Flower)$16.1kSign up
1995 One Line Down$13.8kSign up
1996 "One Blade Up"$29kSign up
1997 Two Open Squares Spread II$22.5kSign up
1997 Two Open Rectangles Diagonal Jointed Gyratory II$113kSign up
1998 Archipellago$14kSign up
c. 1998 Sunrise$4.4kSign up
…and 4 more works from this group in the full results list.
2000s 2 works
Creation date not recorded
12 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 1 work
- Sold
- 1 of 1
- Median
- $4kSign up
- Average
- $4kSign up
- Typical size
- 3 × 11.5 in (8 × 29 cm)
- Mediums
- Sculpture (1)
- Subjects
- —
sold 2009 Untitled (Fruit bowl)$4kSign up
Undated, sold in the 2010s 6 works
- Sold
- 6 of 6
- Median
- $8.1kSign up
- Average
- $11.4kSign up
- Typical size
- 10 × 5 in (26 × 13 cm)
- Mediums
- Sculpture (4), Other (2)
- Subjects
- —
sold 2010 Mäander (meander)$14.3kSign up
sold 2012 One up one down excentric with acute angle II$36.4kSign up
sold 2012 Balanced on pointed base$1.2kSign up
sold 2012 Balanced on pointed base$2.5kSign up
sold 2018 Single Line$13.8kSign up
sold 2019 Konvolut von 2 Lithografien$429Sign up
Undated, sold in the 2020s 5 works
- Sold
- 5 of 5
- Median
- $10.9kSign up
- Average
- $14.1kSign up
- Typical size
- 29.5 × 11.5 in (74 × 29 cm)
- Mediums
- Sculpture (3), Other (1), Acrylic (1)
- Subjects
- —
sold 2022 Stainless steel$26kSign up
sold 2023 2 Pcs.$10.2kSign up
sold 2023 Space Churn$21.8kSign up
sold 2025 2 Double Spirals$10.9kSign up
sold 2026 Vortex II$1.7kSign 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 Rickey auction results →