Jim Shaw: career timeline
American · b. 1952 · Works grouped by the decade they were made (the cataloged date, or a date in the signature or title), not by sale date. 89 of 96 lots (94% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 3 | 3 | $1.9kSign up | Drawing |
| 1980s | 13 | 13 | $3.5kSign up | Drawing |
| 1990s | 28 | 26 | $2.9kSign up | Drawing |
| 2000s | 39 | 33 | $5kSign up | Drawing |
| 2010s | 1 | 1 | $2.6kSign up | Drawing |
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1970s 3 works
- Sold
- 3 of 3
- Median
- $1.9kSign up
- Average
- $2kSign up
- Typical size
- 14 × 10.5 in (36 × 27 cm)
- Mediums
- Drawing (2), Pastel (1)
- Subjects
- Figures & portraits (1)
1978 Untitled (Noir Portrait Series)$1.5kSign up · sold 2×
1978 [Untitled]$1.9kSign up
1979 Pencil Mustach$2.6kSign up
1980s 13 works
- Sold
- 13 of 13
- Median
- $3.5kSign up
- Average
- $6.2kSign up
- Typical size
- 13.5 × 10.5 in (35 × 27 cm)
- Mediums
- Drawing (11), Mixed media (1), Acrylic (1)
- Subjects
- —
1981 Mormon Missionary and Prostitute Making Each Other Feel Guilty$2.5kSign up
1981 Face in the Mirror$2.5kSign up
1981 Untitled$2.3kSign up
1981 Untitled$12.7kSign up · sold 2×
1984 Distorted Face #3$6kSign up
1984 Distorted Face #4$3.5kSign up
1986 Untitled$4.1kSign up
1986 Two works: (i) Layout for 'The Andersons', (ii) Layout for 'The Andersons'$1.8kSign up
1987 Study for 'Identity Crisis'$1.7kSign up
c. 1988 Four works: (i) Clean Slate (from 3-D My Mirage) ; (ii) Four Assassinations ; (iii) 3-D / My Mirage / Rome Version ; (iv) Nine Cute Statues$17.8kSign up
1988 Study for 'Post'$1kSign up
c. 1988 Untitled$4.5kSign up
Show 1 more (1980s)
1989 Objects of Desire$20kSign up
1990s 28 works
- Sold
- 26 of 28
- Median
- $2.9kSign up
- Average
- $7.6kSign up
- Typical size
- 12 × 9.5 in (31 × 24 cm)
- Mediums
- Drawing (18), Gouache (4), Pastel (2)
- Subjects
- Figures & portraits (2)
1990 The Temptation of Doubting Olsen from My Mirage$17.7kSign up
1990 Study for The Temptation of Jimmie Olsen$3.8kSign up
1990 Study for A Taste of Honey (Portrait of Bob Flanagan)Unsold
1990 The Book of Life (Cover)$27kSign up
1991 Study for 'Sinbad and the Seven Sleepers'$2.4kSign up
1991 Horror A Vacui$15.3kSign up
1992 Camera Pulls Back as Teacher Watches Cartoon James Brown Fish Split in Two$1.8kSign up
1992 Untitled$1.9kSign up
1992 Untitled$4.2kSign up
1992 Untitled$2.8kSign up
1993 Dream Drawing (3 Dreams)$1.3kSign up
c. 1993 10 works from Dream Drawing$15.2kSign up
Show 12 more (1990s)
1993 Untitled (Beaver: George Bush is Telling Ronald Reagan...)$3.5kSign up
1994 Dream Drawing (I was looking for a place to masturbate...)$1.8kSign up
1994 Untitled (I was in NYC and all these guys were going...)$1.5kSign up
1995 Dream Drawing (I was dawdling)$953Sign up
1996 Dream Object (A dream in a thrift store)$2.1kSign up
1996 Dream Object (A dream in a thrift store)Unsold
1996 Dream Drawing$3.8kSign up
1996 Dream Object (Mike Gonzales and I were at Larry's Studio)$16.3kSign up
1997 Dream Drawing (I had a bunch of art need...)$1.3kSign up
1997 Dream Drawing (In NYC a black business man was walking with a white business woman...)$1.7kSign up
1997 Dream Drawing (We were supposed to meet some people...)$1.7kSign up
1997 Dream Drawing$3.1kSign up
…and 4 more works from this group in the full results list.
2000s 39 works
- Sold
- 33 of 39
- Median
- $5kSign up
- Average
- $10.4kSign up
- Typical size
- 29.5 × 30 in (74 × 76 cm)
- Mediums
- Drawing (13), Oil (7), Sculpture (6)
- Subjects
- Figures & portraits (7), Boats (2)
2000 Dream Drawing (Going thru old dream drawings...)$889Sign up
2000 UntitledUnsold
2001 Wally Wood Women$1.2kSign up
2001 Dream Object: Dreamt of Drawing (Flying superheroes and gorilla)$2.7kSign up
2001 Dream Object (I was seeing an old atomic bomb test from above the Pacific along the line of ships which seemed to grow larger. Then I was beneath the debris streaking through the water wondering if it would reach California and contaminate us. Then I was at Joyce Lightbody's looking at paintings on lumpy metal sheets of the negotiators for the Serbs, Croats and Bosnians as vampire basketball players plus these asshole vaginas and baskets...)$3.6kSign up · sold 2×
2001 Untitled (Building with stairs)$4.8kSign up
2001 Dream Object (I was seeing an old atomic bomb test from above the Pacific along the line of ships which seemed to grow larger. Then I was beneath the debris streaking through the water wondering if it would reach California and contaminate us. Then I was at Joyce Lightbody's looking at paintings on lumpy metal sheets of the negotiators for the Serbs, Croates and Bosnians as vampire basketball players plus these asshole vaginas and baskets...)$12.5kSign up
2002 Kill your darlings #1$7.5kSign up
2003 Untitled$5kSign up
c. 2003 Untitled (Ripped Face Drawing)$32.5kSign up
2004 Dream Object Part B$704Sign up
2004 Dream Object Part B$1.5kSign up
Show 12 more (2000s)
2004 Untitled (Monster Face #12)$2kSign up · sold 2×
2005 Untitled Study for "Women in the Wilderness"$945Sign up
2005 Untitled Study for "Women in the Wilderness"$945Sign up
2005 Untitled (Metro Pictures Holiday card)$330Sign up
2005 Untitled (Study for 'Woman in the wilderness' (Shrek))$955Sign up
2005 Untitled Study for "Woman in the Wilderness" (Fast Food Characters in a Line)$3kSign up
2005 Untitled$14.1kSign up
2005 From the Monster series$17.2kSign up
2006 Study for Theatre Backdrops$1kSign up
2006 Dream Object (Vise Head)$799Sign up
2006 Dream Object (Eyeball TV Model)$7.9kSign up
2006 Drawing (Ruby)$13.3kSign up
…and 15 more works from this group in the full results list.
2010s 1 work
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 2000s 3 works
- Sold
- 3 of 3
- Median
- $7.2kSign up
- Average
- $8.4kSign up
- Typical size
- 17 × 14 in (43 × 36 cm)
- Mediums
- Other (1), Screenprint (1), Watercolor (1)
- Subjects
- —
sold 2005 (American, b. 1952)$2.6kSign up
sold 2006 (American b.1952)$7.2kSign up
sold 2006 (American b.1952)$15.5kSign up
Undated, sold in the 2020s 2 works
- Sold
- 2 of 2
- Median
- $856Sign up
- Average
- $856Sign up
- Typical size
- 13.5 × 11 in (34 × 28 cm)
- Mediums
- Drawing (1), Other (1)
- Subjects
- —
sold 2024 Big Brother is Watching You$1.1kSign up
sold 2024 Two Images from the Series My Mirage: Narcissus and Echo$640Sign up · sold 3×
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 Jim Shaw auction results →