Jessie Traill: career timeline

Australian · 1881–1967 · Works grouped by the decade they were made (the cataloged date, or a date in the signature or title), not by sale date. 44 of 48 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.

Jessie Traill: 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
1900s	2	2	$4kSign up	Etching
1910s	9	9	$2.7kSign up	Watercolor
1920s	16	15	$1.6kSign up	Etching
1930s	11	11	$836Sign up	Watercolor
1940s	4	4	$2.6kSign up	Etching
1950s	1	1	$653Sign up	Etching

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Year madeHeight (in)Width (in)MediumSubject

1900s 2 works

Sold: 2 of 2
Median: $4kSign up
Average: $4kSign up
Typical size: 11 × 13 in (28 × 34 cm)
Mediums: Etching (2)
Subjects: Sunsets & night (1)

1902 Broken Hill Silhouette, British Mine, Sunset$3.1kSign up
1907 Charing Cross Bridge$4.9kSign up

1910s 9 works

Sold: 9 of 9
Median: $2.7kSign up
Average: $2.5kSign up
Typical size: 11.5 × 10.5 in (29 × 27 cm)
Mediums: Watercolor (4), Etching (3), Print (other) (2)
Subjects: Sunsets & night (2), Landscapes (1), Boats (1)

1911 Landscape$1.2kSign up
c. 1911 Boat at Sea$672Sign up
1912 Melbourne from Richmond Paddocks 1911; printed 1912$3.5kSign up
1912 Collins Street, Melbourne 1911; printed 1912$3.2kSign up
1913 The Track with Poplars and Houses$2.1kSign up
1914 The Evening Star 1914$3.2kSign up
1914 The Evening Star$1.9kSign up
1915 Wheat Stocks in Paddock 1915 watercolour signed and dated lower right: J.C.A. Traill/1915 35 x 48cm$2.7kSign up
1919 Rouen, Revisited$4kSign up

1920s 16 works

Sold: 15 of 16
Median: $1.6kSign up
Average: $2.7kSign up
Typical size: 11 × 8.5 in (28 × 21 cm)
Mediums: Etching (7), Watercolor (4), Aquatint (3)
Subjects: Sunsets & night (2), Rivers & marshes (1), Landscapes (1)

1920 Brisbane Cathedral$731Sign up
1921 A Japanese Mt Warning, Tweed River NSW$3.2kSign up
c. 1923 Miners at Light Yallourn$1.6kSign up
1923 View from Old Temple Court$1.1kSign up
1923 Ribbons in the Wind, Mallacoota West$1.8kSign up
1923 Untitled (Near Mallacoota)$2.7kSign up
1925 France$1.4kSign up
1925 St. Etienne Church Toulouse$781Sign up
1925 St. Etienne - Toulouse$1.3kSign up
1927 Between Showers, Carcassonne$2.5kSign up
1927 Le Portail St Maclou Rouen$1.5kSign up
1927 The Tower Carcassonne Night$1.4kSign up

Show 4 more (1920s)

1927 The Tower Carcassonne Night$2.1kSign up
1927 (Australian Bush Scene) 1927Unsold · sold 2×
1929 Tangled Ti-Tree$2kSign up
1929 The Man with the Ladder (Illustration of Sydney Harbour Bridge)$16.7kSign up

1930s 11 works

Sold: 11 of 11
Median: $836Sign up
Average: $978Sign up
Typical size: 7.5 × 9 in (19 × 23 cm)
Mediums: Watercolor (6), Etching (5)
Subjects: Sea & coast (1), Landscapes (1)

1930 French Poplars$1.5kSign up
1932 Claypan$1kSign up
c. 1934 Bookplate: Ex Libris C.W.H. Barnes$330Sign up
c. 1934 Ex Libris C. W. H. Barnes 1932 -$484Sign up
1936 In Whitsunday Passage$836Sign up
1936 Whitsunday Passage$387Sign up
c. 1937 A Wreck Off the Northumbrian Coast$598Sign up
1938 The Gap with Trees$1.6kSign up
1938 Flood Lit II (third state)$1.6kSign up
1938 Floodlit (Edinburgh Castle) 1938$1.7kSign up
1939 Trinity Church Oslo - Norway$708Sign up

1940s 4 works

Sold: 4 of 4
Median: $2.6kSign up
Average: $2.5kSign up
Typical size: 6 × 8 in (15 × 20 cm)
Mediums: Etching (3), Oil (1)
Subjects: Landscapes (1)

1950s 1 work

Sold: 1 of 1
Median: $653Sign up
Average: $653Sign up
Typical size: 5.5 × 8.5 in (14 × 21 cm)
Mediums: Etching (1)
Subjects: —

1951 Les Chiffonniers Paris (The Rag-Pickers)$653Sign up

Creation date not recorded

4 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 4 works

Sold: 4 of 4
Median: $605Sign up
Average: $1.3kSign up
Typical size: 5.5 × 9.5 in (14 × 24 cm)
Mediums: Aquatint (2), Oil (1), Watercolor (1)
Subjects: Rivers & marshes (1), Boats (1), Cattle & animals (1)

sold 2021 Lake and Mountains$374Sign up
sold 2021 Study of Gum$3.7kSign up
sold 2023 Ship on the Ocean Horizon$836Sign up
sold 2026 Little Sheep Bridge, Shipley, Winter$212Sign 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 Jessie Traill auction results →