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Len Lye, Water Whirler

Len Lye

American · 1901–1980 · Painter, Sculptor

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2auction results2021–2024years recorded100%sold (2)$15.8kSign up free to seemedian price

Record prices

  1. Len Lye, Twilight, 1945, oil on canvas boardTwilightRago Auctions · $30,240≈ £23,979≈ €27,959Sign up to see
  2. Len Lye, Self-Portrait (With Night Tree), black and white photograph published by the Len Lye Foundation in 2008 from the 1947 original, 73/250Self-Portrait (With Night Tree)Art+Object · NZ$1,931≈ $1,357≈ £1,010≈ €1,185Sign up to see

Len Lye’s highest prices recorded at auction, ranked in US dollars at each sale-date exchange rate and shown in the currency of the sale (with the buyer’s premium where the house publishes it).

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Len Lye, Twilight, 1945, oil on canvas board
Twilight, 1945
Rago Auctions · Mar 27, 2024
$30,240Sign up free to see
Len Lye, Self-Portrait (With Night Tree), black and white photograph published by the Len Lye Foundation in 2008 from the 1947 original, 73/250
Self-Portrait (With Night Tree)
Art+Object · Nov 14, 2021
NZ$1,931Sign up free to see

Works in museum collections

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Len Lye, Water Whirler
Water Whirler
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CC BY 2.0 · Richard from DC, US, via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 2.0)

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