Jimmy Ernst: career timeline

American · 1920–1984 · Works grouped by the decade they were made (the cataloged date, or a date in the signature or title), not by sale date. 24 of 30 lots (79% 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.

Jimmy Ernst: 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
1940s	7	7	$2.3kSign up	Gouache
1950s	7	7	$3.6kSign up	Gouache
1960s	6	6	$4.7kSign up	Oil
1970s	3	2	$9.3kSign up	Gouache

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Year madeHeight (in)Width (in)MediumSubject

1940s 7 works

Sold: 7 of 7
Median: $2.3kSign up
Average: $4.5kSign up
Typical size: 13.5 × 12 in (34 × 30 cm)
Mediums: Gouache (3), Watercolor (2), Oil (2)
Subjects: —

1944 Untitled$2.6kSign up
c. 1945 Untitled (Abstraction)$635Sign up
1945 Lyon$11.3kSign up
1946 Untitled$2.2kSign up
1947 Untitled$11kSign up
1947 Untitled (Abstraction)$2.3kSign up
1947 Untitled$1.7kSign up

1950s 7 works

Sold: 7 of 7
Median: $3.6kSign up
Average: $4.4kSign up
Typical size: 15 × 13 in (38 × 33 cm)
Mediums: Gouache (3), Oil (2), Acrylic (2)
Subjects: —

1951 Underbrush$3.6kSign up
1951 Untitled$4.1kSign up
1952 Untitled$2.2kSign up
1952 untitled$6.9kSign up
1952 Mineral #27$3.1kSign up
1954 Dialogue II$3.3kSign up
1955 Untitled$7.5kSign up

1960s 6 works

Sold: 6 of 6
Median: $4.7kSign up
Average: $4.9kSign up
Typical size: 20.5 × 20.5 in (52 × 52 cm)
Mediums: Oil (4), Drawing (1), Mixed media (1)
Subjects: —

1964 Secret Language$2.3kSign up
1964 Phoenix Near the Sun$7.1kSign up
1966 Antiworlds (Homage to Andrei Voznesensky)$9.4kSign up
1967 Reference$8.2kSign up
1967 Untitled (diptych)$1kSign up
1969 Untitled$1.4kSign up

1970s 3 works

Sold: 2 of 3
Median: $9.3kSign up
Average: $9.3kSign up
Typical size: 17.5 × 23.5 in (45 × 59 cm)
Mediums: Gouache (2), Oil (1)
Subjects: —

1971 Illuminations #5$1.5kSign up
1974 Untitled$17kSign up
1979 UntitledResult not published · sold 2×

Creation date not recorded

6 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: 2 of 3
Median: $8.3kSign up
Average: $8.3kSign up
Typical size: 13 × 11.5 in (33 × 30 cm)
Mediums: Watercolor (1), Gouache (1), Other (1)
Subjects: Figures & portraits (1)

sold 2012 Abstract FigureUnsold
sold 2014 Jimmy Ernst, German, active in New York, 1920 - 1984$1.6kSign up
sold 2018 I Am Watching$15kSign up

Undated, sold in the 2020s 3 works

Sold: 2 of 3
Median: $1kSign up
Average: $1kSign up
Typical size: 27.5 × 36.5 in (70 × 93 cm)
Mediums: Oil (2), Screenprint (1)
Subjects: —

sold 2021 CosmopolitanResult not published
sold 2023 Untitled$938Sign up
sold 2023 Black on Black$1.1kSign 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 Jimmy Ernst auction results →