Ken Whisson: career timeline

Australian · 1927–2022 · Works grouped by the decade they were made (the cataloged date, or a date in the signature or title), not by sale date. 41 of 42 lots (98% 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.

Ken Whisson: 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	1	0	—	Oil
1970s	6	6	$26.8kSign up	Oil
1980s	9	7	$22.8kSign up	Oil
1990s	9	8	$20.4kSign up	Oil
2000s	11	10	$12.2kSign up	Oil
2010s	3	2	$1.2kSign up	Drawing

Where does mine fit?

Enter what you know about a work by Ken Whisson to see the closest recorded works from the same period, with their auction results. These are past records only, not a valuation: condition, authenticity, provenance and the market all change what a work brings. For an auction estimate of your work, get a free auction estimate.

Year madeHeight (in)Width (in)MediumSubject

1960s 1 work

Sold: 0 of 1
Median: —
Average: —
Typical size: 28.5 × 40 in (73 × 102 cm)
Mediums: Oil (1)
Subjects: —

1967 A Day in the Country 1967Unsold

1970s 6 works

Sold: 6 of 6
Median: $26.8kSign up
Average: $29.2kSign up
Typical size: 32.5 × 42 in (83 × 107 cm)
Mediums: Oil (6)
Subjects: Boats (1)

1973 Motorcar for the Red Chinese 1973$27kSign up
1974 Car and Driver 1974$17.3kSign up
1974 Faces and Boatshape 1974$26.6kSign up
1975 Motor Cars and Drivers 1975$35.4kSign up
c. 1975 View from my Window 8 or 9 (Ships and Shapes) 1975-77$20kSign up
1979 Flag of My Disposition X 1979$49kSign up

1980s 9 works

Sold: 7 of 9
Median: $22.8kSign up
Average: $18.1kSign up
Typical size: 31.5 × 46.5 in (80 × 119 cm)
Mediums: Oil (7), Drawing (1), Pastel (1)
Subjects: Cattle & animals (1), Landscapes (1)

1980 Prepositions and Adverbs of Time c1980$22.8kSign up
1980 Country Sleep 1980$23.6kSign up
1981 Kitchen Tables 1981$22.9kSign up
c. 1983 Open Air Circus with Germanic Hermaphrodite and Brown Ducks 1983-87$44.5kSign up
1985 Black Cat$161Sign up
1986 Abstract with Small Landscape and Leaping Horse 1986$2.5kSign up
1989 Memory Traces 1989$10.2kSign up
c. 1989 Clown 1989-90Unsold
c. 1989 Above the Fields 1989-2000Unsold

1990s 9 works

Sold: 8 of 9
Median: $20.4kSign up
Average: $20.8kSign up
Typical size: 34.5 × 47 in (88 × 119 cm)
Mediums: Oil (7), Acrylic (1), Drawing (1)
Subjects: Landscapes (2)

1992 Landscape in Various Browns, Greys and Yellows 1992$21.4kSign up · sold 2×
1993 All on Stage 1993$33.6kSign up
1994 Outer Suburb of Melbourne Under Rain 1994$19.4kSign up
c. 1994 Factory Poplar Trees and Red Brick Church 1994-96$19.1kSign up
1994 OUTER SUBURB OF MELBOURNE UNDER RAIN 1994$30.3kSign up
1994 Coat of Arms 1994$28.1kSign up
1998 From the Newspapers No. 2$12.6kSign up
1998 Various Coloured Faces 1998$1.8kSign up
c. 1999 Window and Aeroplane (for Paul Nash) 1999-2000Unsold

2000s 11 works

Sold: 10 of 11
Median: $12.2kSign up
Average: $14kSign up
Typical size: 35.5 × 33.5 in (90 × 85 cm)
Mediums: Oil (7), Drawing (4)
Subjects: Birds (2), Landscapes (1)

c. 2000 Contemporary Face, Sally McMurphy 2000-02$14.2kSign up
c. 2000 For the Moment of Porto Alegre 2000-01$24.2kSign up · sold 2×
2000 Ganderland Rome 2000$1.7kSign up
2001 Birds, Cat and Bright Blue House$10.1kSign up
2001 Green and Red Farmhouse Painting 2001$29kSign up
2001 From Here and From There 2001$37.9kSign up
2002 Summer's Day$1.1kSign up
2003 A Voice from the Sky$763Sign up
c. 2003 Untitled$1.1kSign up
c. 2003 Automobile and Bright Birds 2003-2005Unsold
2004 Lines and Landscape 2004$20kSign up

2010s 3 works

Sold: 2 of 3
Median: $1.2kSign up
Average: $1.2kSign up
Typical size: 19.5 × 27.5 in (50 × 70 cm)
Mediums: Drawing (2), Oil (1)
Subjects: —

2011 A Range of Untypical Types$1kSign up
2011 Notebook 11/2/11, 14/2/11Unsold
2012 All Sorts of Sweetness$1.3kSign up

Creation date not recorded

1 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: $15.4kSign up
Average: $15.4kSign up
Typical size: 28 × 31.5 in (71 × 81 cm)
Mediums: Oil (1)
Subjects: Rivers & marshes (1)

sold 2015 Ghosts on the Lake: The Guest House$15.4kSign 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 Ken Whisson auction results →