Michael Kmit: career timeline

Australian · 1910–1981 · Works grouped by the decade they were made (the cataloged date, or a date in the signature or title), not by sale date. 45 of 54 lots (85% 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.

Michael Kmit: 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	14	14	$2.2kSign up	Oil
1960s	23	23	$317Sign up	Oil
1970s	7	7	$897Sign up	Oil

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Year madeHeight (in)Width (in)MediumSubject

1950s 14 works

Sold: 14 of 14
Median: $2.2kSign up
Average: $2.3kSign up
Typical size: 18 × 19 in (46 × 48 cm)
Mediums: Oil (13), Other (1)
Subjects: Figures & portraits (3), Landscapes (1)

1951 Xenia 1951$3.6kSign up
1952 Darling Point$1.2kSign up · sold 2×
1953 Potts Point$3kSign up
1954 (3), Ballerina, charcoal (48x33cm); Seated Ballerina, pen & crayon (42.5x32cm); Male Figure, 1954, ink on paper (35x25cm), all signed. Also, small sketch pad (unsigned); & collection various promotional cards$131Sign up
1954 Girl with a Cat$1.3kSign up
1954 Woman with Branch$1.6kSign up
1955 Landscape$2.2kSign up
1955 Untitled 1955$3.9kSign up
1955 Ecce Homo 1955$2.7kSign up
1956 Melpomene$1.9kSign up
1956 Three Lawyers$3.3kSign up
1957 Untitled$1.4kSign up

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1957 Red Bodice 1957$3.1kSign up
1959 Golden Retriever$2.1kSign up

1960s 23 works

Sold: 23 of 23
Median: $317Sign up
Average: $863Sign up
Typical size: 14.5 × 10.5 in (37 × 27 cm)
Mediums: Oil (22), Gouache (1)
Subjects: Figures & portraits (8), Abstract (2), Flowers & still life (1)

1960 Woman and Wine$1.4kSign up
1960 Untitled, 1960. Signed & dated verso$247Sign up
1961 Profile Portrait$555Sign up
1961 Mardi Gras$706Sign up
1961 Silence,' 1961. Signed, titled & dated verso$212Sign up
1961 Untitled, 1961. Signed & dated verso$212Sign up
1962 Untitled$553Sign up
1962 Study of a Woman$1.6kSign up
1962 Abstract (Red Border), 1962/3$196Sign up
1962 Untitled (Portrait)$196Sign up
1962 Flowers in a Window, 1962. Signed & dated verso$159Sign up
1962 Untitled, 1962. Signed & dated verso$194Sign up

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c. 1962 Proprietress 1962-63$6.7kSign up
1963 Abstract$261Sign up
1963 Seneca$247Sign up
1964 Head of a Girl (Wufty)$521Sign up
1964 Portrait$1.3kSign up
1964 Xenia$1.9kSign up
1965 Portrait Study$261Sign up
1965 Blue Portrait$261Sign up
1965 Female Study, 1965. Signed & dated verso$494Sign up
1965 Signature$317Sign up
1966 Ocean Floor$1.4kSign up

1970s 7 works

Sold: 7 of 7
Median: $897Sign up
Average: $1kSign up
Typical size: 14.5 × 11.5 in (37 × 30 cm)
Mediums: Oil (5), Drawing (1), Mixed media (1)
Subjects: Figures & portraits (1), Markets & villages (1)

Creation date not recorded

8 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: $176Sign up
Average: $176Sign up
Typical size: 14 × 10 in (36 × 26 cm)
Mediums: Oil (1)
Subjects: —

sold 2019 Untitled. Signed & dated verso$176Sign up

Undated, sold in the 2020s 7 works

Sold: 7 of 7
Median: $196Sign up
Average: $264Sign up
Typical size: 11 × 9 in (29 × 23 cm)
Mediums: Oil (3), Drawing (3), Other (1)
Subjects: Figures & portraits (4), Landscapes (1)

sold 2020 Peasant Girl from Poznan, Poland$350Sign up
sold 2020 (3)$196Sign up
sold 2020 (9) Various Pencil Drawings. Incl. Women in an Interior, signed & dated '55. Also, other unsigned figure studies. Pencil (9) 38x27.5cm (7), 26x20cm, & 56x43.5cm$392Sign up
sold 2020 Untitled (Tree)$131Sign up
sold 2020 Woman Sketching$162Sign up
sold 2024 St Peter's Anglican Church, Watsons Bay, Sydney$564Sign up · sold 2×

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sold 2025 Man with Arms Crossed$57Sign 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 Michael Kmit auction results →