Joel-Peter Witkin: career timeline
American · b. 1939 · Works grouped by the decade they were made (the cataloged date, or a date in the signature or title), not by sale date. 77 of 81 lots (95% 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 | 1 | 1 | $640Sign up | Photograph |
| 1980s | 41 | 32 | $3.1kSign up | Photograph |
| 1990s | 24 | 15 | $5.7kSign up | Photograph |
| 2000s | 9 | 4 | $5.9kSign up | Photograph |
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1970s 1 work
- Sold
- 1 of 1
- Median
- $640Sign up
- Average
- $640Sign up
- Typical size
- 5 × 7 in (13 × 18 cm)
- Mediums
- Photograph (1)
- Subjects
- —
1972 Untitled (Roof)$640Sign up
1980s 41 works
- Sold
- 32 of 41
- Median
- $3.1kSign up
- Average
- $4kSign up
- Typical size
- 15 × 15 in (38 × 38 cm)
- Mediums
- Photograph (37), Other (3), Etching (1)
- Subjects
- Figures & portraits (4), Sunsets & night (1)
1980 The Expulsion from Paradise of Adam and Eve, New Mexico$3.4kSign up
1981 Venus Genetrix$394Sign up
1981 Angel of the Carrots$2.5kSign up
1981 The Wife of CainResult not published
1981 The Wife of Cain, New Mexico$2.3kSign up
1981 The Sins of Joan Miro$3.1kSign up
1981 Woman Masturbating on the Moon$10.6kSign up
1982 Canova's Venus Shaun Ariane Montiel$5.1kSign up
1982 Penitente$2kSign up
1982 Birth of Venus, N.Y.C.$2.4kSign up
1982 Woman About to Castrate a Man, NM$2.3kSign up
1982 Savior of the Primates (New Mexico)$3.8kSign up
Show 12 more (1980s)
1982 Shaun Ariane Montiel Masturbating$1.9kSign up
1982 Le Baiser (The Kiss)$15.1kSign up
1982 Lisa Lyon as Hercules, N.Y.C.$1.6kSign up
1982 Counting Lesson in Purgatory, New Mexico$3.6kSign up
1982 Woman With Severed HeadResult not published
1982 Woman With Severed HeadResult not published
1982 'Canova's Venus', N.Y.C.$10.3kSign up
1982 Counting Lessons in Purgatory, New Mexico$3.8kSign up
1982 Counting Lesson in Purgatory, New MexicoUnsold
1983 EunuchResult not published
1983 Sanatorium$5.3kSign up
1984 Still-Life S.F.$1.5kSign up
…and 17 more works from this group in the full results list.
1990s 24 works
- Sold
- 15 of 24
- Median
- $5.7kSign up
- Average
- $6.3kSign up
- Typical size
- 25 × 26.5 in (63 × 67 cm)
- Mediums
- Photograph (23), Etching (1)
- Subjects
- Figures & portraits (7), Birds (1), Flowers & still life (1)
1990 Studio of the Painter (Courbet), Paris$944Sign up
1990 Vanity, New MexicoUnsold
1990 Studio of the Painter, Courbet, Paris$12.5kSign up
1990 Studio of the Painter, Courbet, Paris$15kSign up
1990 Woman Once a Bird$6.7kSign up
1992 'La Serpentine, Marseilles'Unsold · sold 3×
c. 1992 Twelve Photographs$953Sign up
1992 Still life MarseillesUnsold
1992 Three Kinds of Women$10.6kSign up
1992 Three Kinds of Women, Mexico City$11.3kSign up
1992 Laokoön, New Mexico$5kSign up
c. 1994 Glassman, Mexico; Self-Portrait, Reminiscent of ‘Portrait as a Vanité, New Mexico$5.7kSign up
Show 12 more (1990s)
1994 ,Portrait as a Vanité‘, New Mexico$6.8kSign up
1995 'Self-Portrait (Reminiscent of Portrait as a Vanité)'$1.5kSign up
1996 Who Naked IsUnsold
1996 Prudence', Paris 1996$2kSign up
1996 Portrait of Signoria Di Nobili and the Sorrows to come, RomeUnsold
1997 Histoire de la civilisation (blanche): Vénus préférée au Christ, Paris$9kSign up
1998 Studio, Berlin$1.5kSign up
1998 Beauty has Three Nipples, BerlinUnsold
1998 Shoe fucker and the woman who believes she´s becoming a camera, ParisUnsold
1998 One Plate, from The Bone HouseUnsold
1999 Story from a Book$4.5kSign up
1999 Story from a book 1999Unsold
2000s 9 works
- Sold
- 4 of 9
- Median
- $5.9kSign up
- Average
- $6.8kSign up
- Typical size
- 22 × 20 in (56 × 51 cm)
- Mediums
- Photograph (9)
- Subjects
- Figures & portraits (3), Sunsets & night (1)
2004 Ecclesia PederastesUnsold
2004 Mother of the future$3kSign up
2004 'Ecclesia Pederastes'Unsold
2004 Face of a Woman$2.8kSign up
2004 Face of a Woman, Marseilles$8.8kSign up
2004 Face of a Woman, Marseilles$12.5kSign up
2006 The Raft of George W. Bush 2006Unsold
2007 Night in a small town, New MexicoUnsold
2008 Reality is an Invention, Balthus, New MexikoUnsold
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 2010s 2 works
- Sold
- 2 of 2
- Median
- $9.8kSign up
- Average
- $9.8kSign up
- Typical size
- 14 × 11.5 in (36 × 30 cm)
- Mediums
- Photograph (1), Other (1)
- Subjects
- —
sold 2013 La Giovanissima$17.4kSign up
sold 2018 The Wife of Cain$2.3kSign up
Undated, sold in the 2020s 2 works
- Sold
- 0 of 2
- Median
- —
- Average
- —
- Typical size
- 14.5 × 14.5 in (37 × 37 cm)
- Mediums
- Photograph (2)
- Subjects
- —
sold 2024 Venus GenetrixUnsold
sold 2025 Venus GenetrixUnsold
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 Joel-Peter Witkin auction results →