Hugh Sawrey: career timeline

Australian · 1919–1999 · Few works by Hugh Sawrey have a recorded creation date (14 of 159), so works are grouped by the decade they were sold, not made. Each work is shown once, even when it sold more than once.

Hugh Sawrey: works at auction by decade the work was sold (creation dates are not recorded for most of these works). Each work counted once; medians use sold works only, in US dollars.

Decade sold	Works	Sold	Median sold price	Main medium
2000s	6	6	$8.2kSign up	Oil
2010s	73	69	$6.1kSign up	Oil
2020s	80	80	$5.6kSign up	Oil

Sold in the 2000s 6 works

Sold: 6 of 6
Median: $8.2kSign up
Average: $10.6kSign up
Typical size: 17.5 × 21 in (44 × 53 cm)
Mediums: Oil (6)
Subjects: Rivers & marshes (1)

sold 2009 The Boundary Rider's Kids$5.6kSign up
sold 2009 The Travelling Mob, Along the Barcoo River$10.8kSign up
sold 2009 The Wedge-Tail Eagle's Nest$25.9kSign up
sold 2009 Quart-Pot Charlie$3.7kSign up
1960 Stockman 1960$3.1kSign up
sold 2009 Under the Dog Star$14.3kSign up

Sold in the 2010s 73 works

Sold: 69 of 73
Median: $6.1kSign up
Average: $9.2kSign up
Typical size: 19.5 × 23.5 in (50 × 60 cm)
Mediums: Oil (69), Drawing (3), Lithograph (1)
Subjects: Rivers & marshes (7), Cattle & animals (2), Birds (1)

sold 2010 The Travelling Mob$9.7kSign up
sold 2010 In Darkie Dwyer's Pub, West Queensland$25kSign up
sold 2010 By the Blood-Red Sand Hills, Coopers Creek, Western Queensland$9.9kSign up
sold 2010 The Cockatoo$21.9kSign up
sold 2010 The Binde-Bango Shed in Full Swing, South Mitchell, Western Queensland$65.8kSign up
sold 2010 Changing the Horses (Cobb and Co Series)$57kSign up
1985 Washing the First Load 1985$12.6kSign up
1985 Bushing the Horses c1985$13.8kSign up
sold 2011 After a Bed for the Night - at the Kogan Creek Hotel$36.1kSign up
sold 2012 Clancy's Gone to Queensland Droving$7.3kSign up
sold 2013 Aboriginal Stockboys, Northern Territory$3.9kSign up
sold 2013 The Throw, Channel Country, QLD$15.4kSign up

Show 12 more (2010s)

1965 The Land of Her Fathers 1965$3kSign up
sold 2014 Kids in the Bore Tank$7.1kSign up
sold 2014 Dawdling in the Long Paddock$3.8kSign up
sold 2014 The Ringers$18.2kSign up
sold 2014 The Waler oil on canvas signed lower right, marked with left thumb print: SAWREY 30 x 47cm$1.4kSign up
sold 2014 The Bush Hoop lithograph$140Sign up
sold 2014 Waiting for the Duck Season to Open$13.7kSign up
sold 2014 The Publican's Corn Fed Hack$3.7kSign up
sold 2014 Along the Dogwood$5kSign up
sold 2014 Along the Dog Wood, South West Queensland$4.2kSign up
sold 2015 The Boundary Rider and his Wife and Family$9.8kSign up
sold 2015 Mining Camp, Mount Morgan, QLD$9.5kSign up

…and 49 more works from this group in the full results list.

Sold in the 2020s 80 works

Sold: 80 of 80
Median: $5.6kSign up
Average: $8kSign up
Typical size: 20 × 24 in (51 × 61 cm)
Mediums: Oil (79), Other (1)
Subjects: Cattle & animals (9), Rivers & marshes (5), Figures & portraits (2)

sold 2020 Challis' Sheep, N.E. Victoria$5.5kSign up
sold 2020 The Musterers$8.9kSign up
sold 2020 Bill Crummy, the Boundary Rider, Western Queensland$10.7kSign up
sold 2020 The Binde-Bango Shed in Full Swing, South of Mitchell, Western Queensland$49.1kSign up
sold 2020 Horses in the Sand-fly Fires - Diamantina River$1.6kSign up
sold 2020 Woman of the Inland$3.2kSign up
sold 2020 Humping Water, W[estern] QLD,' from The Boundary Rider's$4.3kSign up
sold 2020 Evening Gold, Western QLD$3.3kSign up
sold 2020 The Boundary Rider's Cottage, Western QLD$3.1kSign up
sold 2020 The Trawlers, Southport, Queensland$2.1kSign up
sold 2020 The Artist's Camp, The Olgas, Central$2.5kSign up
sold 2020 The First Cut$2.5kSign up

Show 12 more (2020s)

sold 2020 The Camp at the Seven Mile$5.6kSign up
sold 2020 The Rider$2.4kSign up
sold 2021 The Old Timers' Steeplechase 3$2.5kSign up
sold 2021 Aboriginals at Wave Hill$17.5kSign up
sold 2021 The Interlopers$10.5kSign up
sold 2021 Man on a Horse, Kimberleys$8.1kSign up
sold 2021 The Dawdling Mob - Along the Kogan-Warra Road, Queensland$5.6kSign up
sold 2021 Corroboree of the Emu, Central Australia$8.2kSign up
sold 2021 At the Top of the Rise$16.8kSign up · sold 2×
sold 2021 The Intro (from the Sentimental Bloke series)$7kSign up
sold 2021 Boiling Up by the Billabong, W. Qld$2.7kSign up
sold 2022 Boulia Picnic Races$8.2kSign up

…and 56 more works from this group in the full results list.

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 Hugh Sawrey auction results →