Grace Hartigan: career timeline

American · 1922–2008 · Works grouped by the decade they were made (the cataloged date, or a date in the signature or title), not by sale date. 27 of 34 lots (78% 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.

Grace Hartigan: 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	6	6	$64.8kSign up	Oil
1960s	7	6	$21.1kSign up	Lithograph
1980s	6	4	$5.2kSign up	Watercolor
1990s	5	4	$2.3kSign up	Oil
2000s	1	1	$30.5kSign up	Oil

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Year madeHeight (in)Width (in)MediumSubject

1950s 6 works

Sold: 6 of 6
Median: $64.8kSign up
Average: $449kSign up
Typical size: 22.5 × 21.5 in (57 × 54 cm)
Mediums: Oil (2), Screenprint (1), Drawing (1)
Subjects: —

1960s 7 works

Sold: 6 of 7
Median: $21.1kSign up
Average: $74.7kSign up
Typical size: 20 × 14.5 in (51 × 36 cm)
Mediums: Lithograph (2), Oil (2), Screenprint (1)
Subjects: —

1960 Salute: two plates$756Sign up
c. 1962 In The Campagna, from The ArchaicsUnsold
1962 Untitled$35.3kSign up
1963 Pond Memory$343kSign up
1963 untitled$6.3kSign up
1965 Trick or Treat$56.3kSign up
1966 The Archaics$6.9kSign up

1980s 6 works

Sold: 4 of 6
Median: $5.2kSign up
Average: $23.5kSign up
Typical size: 59 × 35 in (149 × 88 cm)
Mediums: Watercolor (2), Etching (2), Oil (2)
Subjects: —

1983 Bacchanal$8.9kSign up
1984 Elizabeth Etched$1.1kSign up
1984 Chapeau de CastellaUnsold
1984 Elizabeth Etched$1.6kSign up
1987 El AztecaUnsold · sold 2×
1988 The Hunt$82.5kSign up

1990s 5 works

Sold: 4 of 5
Median: $2.3kSign up
Average: $10.9kSign up
Typical size: 28 × 21.5 in (71 × 55 cm)
Mediums: Oil (2), Other (1), Print (other) (1)
Subjects: Figures & portraits (2)

2000s 1 work

Sold: 1 of 1
Median: $30.5kSign up
Average: $30.5kSign up
Typical size: 72 × 84 in (183 × 213 cm)
Mediums: Oil (1)
Subjects: —

2001 Italian Comedy$30.5kSign up · sold 2×

Creation date not recorded

7 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 3 works

Sold: 3 of 3
Median: $11.9kSign up
Average: $18.8kSign up
Typical size: —
Mediums: Other (3)
Subjects: Figures & portraits (1)

sold 2016 The Infanta Margarita$11.9kSign up
sold 2019 After Francisco Goya y Lucientes$37.5kSign up
sold 2019 Moroccan Woman$6.9kSign up

Undated, sold in the 2020s 4 works

Sold: 4 of 4
Median: $14.4kSign up
Average: $21.1kSign up
Typical size: 24 × 18 in (60 × 46 cm)
Mediums: Other (3), Mixed media (1)
Subjects: Figures & portraits (2)

sold 2020 Collage$19.2kSign up
sold 2021 Untitled (Portrait of a Woman)$9.6kSign up
sold 2021 Rita$9.6kSign up
sold 2023 Portrait$46.1kSign 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 Grace Hartigan auction results →