Karl Gerstner: career timeline

Swiss · 1937–2017 · Works grouped by the decade they were made (the cataloged date, or a date in the signature or title), not by sale date. 19 of 31 lots (61% 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.

Karl Gerstner: 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
1960s	6	6	$2.2kSign up	Other
1970s	11	10	$3.8kSign up	Other
1980s	2	2	$5kSign up	Other

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Year madeHeight (in)Width (in)Medium

1960s 6 works

Sold: 6 of 6
Median: $2.2kSign up
Average: $4.2kSign up
Typical size: 23.5 × 23.5 in (60 × 60 cm)
Mediums: Other (4), Screenprint (2)
Subjects: —

1960 Colour Sounds II or homage to the homage to the square$1.3kSign up
c. 1962 Linsen-Bild$12.3kSign up
1966 "3-VI-66"$3.2kSign up
1967 Color Levels$600Sign up
1967 Auktion 404, Los 626$762Sign up
c. 1969 Color Sound 2 A Extra Version$7.1kSign up

1970s 11 works

Sold: 10 of 11
Median: $3.8kSign up
Average: $4.5kSign up
Typical size: 23.5 × 23.5 in (60 × 60 cm)
Mediums: Other (5), Screenprint (4), Mixed media (2)
Subjects: —

1971 Aus: Art Scene Düsseldorf$268Sign up
1971 Auktion 414, Los 639$4.2kSign up
1971 Entwurf Colour Sound$4.5kSign up
1972 Aus: Colorsounds$3kSign up
1973 Senza titolo, 1973Result not published
1973 Colour Sounds Blue I und II$976Sign up
c. 1973 Color Sound$2.3kSign up
1973 Auktion 401, Los 166$3.8kSign up
1973 Auktion 401, Los 165$3.8kSign up
1976 "Color Sound 28. Extra Version"$4.6kSign up
1976 Metachromes Diptychon (Chromorphose 1.03/1.04)$17.1kSign up

1980s 2 works

Sold: 2 of 2
Median: $5kSign up
Average: $5kSign up
Typical size: 32.5 × 30.5 in (83 × 77 cm)
Mediums: Other (2)
Subjects: —

1980 "Color Sound 49 A. Extra Version"$5.6kSign up
1981 "Algo Oval 4"$4.3kSign up

Creation date not recorded

12 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 9 works

Sold: 9 of 9
Median: $2.1kSign up
Average: $2.3kSign up
Typical size: 31.5 × 31.5 in (80 × 80 cm)
Mediums: Screenprint (4), Other (3), Acrylic (1)
Subjects: —

sold 2015 "Color sound S. Jacques 5"$6.8kSign up
sold 2015 "COLOR LABYRINTH 5 SIG."$427Sign up
sold 2016 Carro 64$400Sign up
sold 2018 Colour Sound$3.3kSign up
sold 2018 Colour Sound$2.6kSign up
sold 2018 Colour Sound$2.2kSign up

Show 3 more (2010s)

sold 2018 Auktion 414, Los 641$2.1kSign up
sold 2018 Auktion 414, Los 640$2kSign up
sold 2019 Aus: "Colour Sound"$478Sign up

Undated, sold in the 2020s 3 works

Sold: 3 of 3
Median: $1.3kSign up
Average: $1.1kSign up
Typical size: 25.5 × 19.5 in (65 × 50 cm)
Mediums: Screenprint (3)
Subjects: —

sold 2020 Colour Sound$1.8kSign up
sold 2020 Konvolut von 2 Serigrafien$252Sign up
sold 2021 Ohne Titel$1.3kSign 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 Karl Gerstner auction results →