Joseph Istler: career timeline

Czech · 1919–2000 · Works grouped by the decade they were made (the cataloged date, or a date in the signature or title), not by sale date. 32 of 34 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.

Joseph Istler: 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	12	12	$7.3kSign up	Oil
1950s	2	2	$24.7kSign up	Oil
1960s	9	9	$5.8kSign up	Oil
1970s	5	5	$3.8kSign up	Oil
1980s	2	2	$2.5kSign up	Oil
1990s	2	2	$23kSign up	Oil

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Year madeHeight (in)Width (in)MediumSubject

1940s 12 works

Sold: 12 of 12
Median: $7.3kSign up
Average: $11.7kSign up
Typical size: 12.5 × 15 in (31 × 39 cm)
Mediums: Oil (8), Lithograph (2), Gouache (1)
Subjects: Rivers & marshes (3), Abstract (3), Markets & villages (1)

c. 1940 Imaginative Landscape / Town (double-sided painting)$8.2kSign up
1942 Fear$44.9kSign up
1942 A River$137Sign up
1943 Surrealist Composition$20kSign up
1944 Plants$47Sign up
1945 Swamps$6.4kSign up
1945 Swamps$10kSign up
1945 Abstract composition$5.8kSign up
1945 Žlutá krajina$16.9kSign up
1946 Surrealist Composition$338Sign up
1947 Forms$242Sign up
1947 Figure$27.2kSign up

1950s 2 works

Sold: 2 of 2
Median: $24.7kSign up
Average: $24.7kSign up
Typical size: 23 × 21.5 in (58 × 55 cm)
Mediums: Oil (2)
Subjects: Landscapes (1)

1951 Ecstasy$27.2kSign up
1954 Dream Landscape$22.2kSign up

1960s 9 works

Sold: 9 of 9
Median: $5.8kSign up
Average: $11.1kSign up
Typical size: 28 × 16.5 in (71 × 42 cm)
Mediums: Oil (5), Mixed media (4)
Subjects: Abstract (3), Figures & portraits (1)

c. 1960 Composition$8.3kSign up
1961 A Picture$1.5kSign up
1962 Composition$5.8kSign up
1964 Picture$22.2kSign up
1965 Object$387Sign up
1965 Head$1.1kSign up
1966 Picture$45.9kSign up
1967 Composition$2.9kSign up
1967 Object$11.6kSign up

1970s 5 works

Sold: 5 of 5
Median: $3.8kSign up
Average: $4.2kSign up
Typical size: 17.5 × 12 in (45 × 30 cm)
Mediums: Oil (3), Screenprint (1), Mixed media (1)
Subjects: Abstract (2), Landscapes (1)

c. 1970 A Blazing Composition$1.6kSign up
1970 Abstract Motif$3.8kSign up
1974 Object$280Sign up
1975 Abstract Landscape$4.1kSign up
1979 Torso$11.4kSign up

1980s 2 works

Sold: 2 of 2
Median: $2.5kSign up
Average: $2.5kSign up
Typical size: 15 × 18 in (38 × 46 cm)
Mediums: Oil (1), Mixed media (1)
Subjects: —

1982 Dialogue$4.6kSign up
1986 Pf 1986$325Sign up

1990s 2 works

Sold: 2 of 2
Median: $23kSign up
Average: $23kSign up
Typical size: 22 × 16 in (55 × 40 cm)
Mediums: Oil (2)
Subjects: Figures & portraits (1)

1993 Object II$2.3kSign up
1993 Figure IV$43.6kSign up

Creation date not recorded

2 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 1 work

Sold: 1 of 1
Median: $15.1kSign up
Average: $15.1kSign up
Typical size: 34.5 × 19 in (87 × 48 cm)
Mediums: Other (1)
Subjects: —

sold 2017 Hlava$15.1kSign up

Undated, sold in the 2020s 1 work

Sold: 1 of 1
Median: $547Sign up
Average: $547Sign up
Typical size: 9 × 13 in (23 × 33 cm)
Mediums: Oil (1)
Subjects: Flowers & still life (1)

sold 2021 A Surrealistic Still Life$547Sign 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 Joseph Istler auction results →