James Franco: career timeline

American · b. 1978 · Works grouped by the decade they were made (the cataloged date, or a date in the signature or title), not by sale date. 18 of 23 lots (76% 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.

James Franco: 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
2000s	5	5	$2kSign up	Acrylic
2010s	9	8	$4.6kSign up	Acrylic
2020s	2	2	$819Sign up	Oil

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Year madeHeight (in)Width (in)MediumSubject

2000s 5 works

Sold: 5 of 5
Median: $2kSign up
Average: $3.2kSign up
Typical size: 41.5 × 42 in (105 × 107 cm)
Mediums: Acrylic (2), Mixed media (2), Oil (1)
Subjects: —

c. 2005 Pork Diet$2.8kSign up
2005 Untitled$7.5kSign up
2006 Hopital$2kSign up
2007 Mom & Pops$1.8kSign up
2008 Riot Oct$1.8kSign up

2010s 9 works

Sold: 8 of 9
Median: $4.6kSign up
Average: $4.4kSign up
Typical size: 60 × 48 in (152 × 122 cm)
Mediums: Acrylic (9)
Subjects: Figures & portraits (1), Birds (1)

2011 Palo Alto Knights$5.1kSign up
2011 Blue GuyUnsold
2011 SPIDER-MAN$5.1kSign up
2011 Bluebeard$2.3kSign up
2011 Bbeards$4.8kSign up
2011 Foothill Quarry$4kSign up
2011 Army Pants$8.2kSign up
2011 Bus$4.4kSign up
2015 Bird #14$823Sign up

2020s 2 works

Sold: 2 of 2
Median: $819Sign up
Average: $819Sign up
Typical size: 42 × 43 in (107 × 110 cm)
Mediums: Oil (1), Mixed media (1)
Subjects: Figures & portraits (1)

2021 Old Man's Face$378Sign up · sold 2×
2021 Collage and Drawings$1.3kSign up · sold 2×

Creation date not recorded

5 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 5 works

Sold: 0 of 5
Median: —
Average: —
Typical size: —
Mediums: Oil (3), Mixed media (1), Acrylic (1)
Subjects: Abstract (1), Figures & portraits (1)

sold 2018 - Untitled-Result not published
sold 2018 - ''Grandma Mitzy''-Result not published
sold 2018 - Untitled (Abstract)-Result not published
sold 2018 - ''Winona The Femme Fatale''-Result not published
sold 2018 - Untitled-Result not published

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 James Franco auction results →