Lee Bontecou: career timeline

American · 1931–2022 · Works grouped by the decade they were made (the cataloged date, or a date in the signature or title), not by sale date. 27 of 28 lots (96% 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.

Lee Bontecou: 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
1950s	1	1	$188kSign up	Sculpture
1960s	16	16	$2.9kSign up	Lithograph
1970s	4	4	$1.7kSign up	Lithograph
1980s	4	4	$74.4kSign up	Pastel
1990s	1	1	$32.3kSign up	Pastel

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Year madeHeight (in)Width (in)Medium

1950s 1 work

Sold: 1 of 1
Median: $188kSign up
Average: $188kSign up
Typical size: 8 × 5 in (20 × 12 cm)
Mediums: Sculpture (1)
Subjects: —

1959 Untitled$188kSign up

1960s 16 works

Sold: 16 of 16
Median: $2.9kSign up
Average: $6.7kSign up
Typical size: 14 × 17 in (36 × 43 cm)
Mediums: Lithograph (6), Screenprint (6), Etching (2)
Subjects: —

1960 Untitled$52.9kSign up
1962 Second Stone$3.8kSign up
1962 Second Stone$8.9kSign up
1964 Sixth Stone II (S. 7, F. 6-B)$6.6kSign up
1964 Sixth Stone I (S. 6, F. 6-A)$6.9kSign up
c. 1965 Seventh Stone (S. 21)$1.5kSign up
c. 1965 Seventh Stone, 1965-1968$2.6kSign up
1967 Untitled, from Ten from Leo Castelli$2.8kSign up · sold 2×
1967 Untitled (from the National Collection of Fine Arts portfolio)$3kSign up
1967 Untitled (from the National Collection of Fine Arts portfolio)$2.5kSign up
1967 Untitled, from Ten from Leo Castelli (F. 12)$4.8kSign up
1967 Untitled (from the Ten from Leo Castelli portfolio)$3kSign up

Show 4 more (1960s)

1967 Untitled (from Ten from Leo Castelli)$1.9kSign up
1967 Untitled (from Ten from Leo Castelli portfolio)$2.1kSign up
1967 Untitled, from Ten from Leo Castelli$625Sign up
c. 1968 Fourteenth Stone$2.5kSign up

1970s 4 works

Sold: 4 of 4
Median: $1.7kSign up
Average: $2.1kSign up
Typical size: 9 × 12 in (23 × 30 cm)
Mediums: Lithograph (4)
Subjects: —

1973 Untitled (from the New York Collection for Stockholm portfolio)$2kSign up
1973 Untitled (from the New York Collection for Stockholm portfolio)$1.4kSign up
1973 Untitled (from the New York Collection for Stockholm portfolio)$1.2kSign up
c. 1979 untitled$3.6kSign up

1980s 4 works

Sold: 4 of 4
Median: $74.4kSign up
Average: $1.1MSign up
Typical size: 37.5 × 24.5 in (95 × 63 cm)
Mediums: Pastel (2), Lithograph (1), Other (1)
Subjects: —

c. 1981 An Untitled Print$21.4kSign up
1982 Untitled$105kSign up
1983 Untitled$43.8kSign up
c. 1985 Untitled$4.2MSign up

1990s 1 work

Sold: 1 of 1
Median: $32.3kSign up
Average: $32.3kSign up
Typical size: 4.5 × 7 in (11 × 18 cm)
Mediums: Pastel (1)
Subjects: —

1998 Untitled$32.3kSign 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: $2.4kSign up
Average: $2.4kSign up
Typical size: —
Mediums: Other (1)
Subjects: —

sold 2019 Untitled from the National Collection of Fine Arts portfolio$2.4kSign 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 Lee Bontecou auction results →