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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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Average price
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High
$30.2kSign up free to see
auction record in database
Lots sold
2
of 2 offered · 2021–2024
Sell-through
100%
sold ÷ offered

Price trend

$1k$3k$10k$32k2022202320242021-11-14 · $1,3572024-03-27 · $30,240
Each dot is a sold lot (price realized incl. premium where published, converted to USD at the sale-date rate; log scale). Dashed line: yearly median.

By medium

MediumOfferedSoldSell-throughAverageMedianHigh
Paintings11100%$30.2kSign up$30.2kSign up$30.2kSign up
Oil11100%$30.2kSign up$30.2kSign up$30.2kSign up
Photography11100%$1.4kSign up$1.4kSign up$1.4kSign up
Photograph11100%$1.4kSign up$1.4kSign up$1.4kSign up

Medium classes are derived from the medium text as published by each house; “Other” includes lots whose medium wasn’t stated.

By year

YearOfferedSoldMedian
202411$30.2kSign up
202111$1.4kSign up

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