Milton Resnick: career timeline

American · 1917–2004 · Works grouped by the decade they were made (the cataloged date, or a date in the signature or title), not by sale date. 28 of 37 lots (76% 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.

Milton Resnick: 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	6	6	$14.5kSign up	Oil
1960s	3	2	$36.5kSign up	Oil
1970s	7	5	$6kSign up	Oil
1980s	8	7	$7.9kSign up	Oil
1990s	4	2	$4.1kSign up	Acrylic

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Year madeHeight (in)Width (in)MediumSubject

1950s 6 works

Sold: 6 of 6
Median: $14.5kSign up
Average: $25.8kSign up
Typical size: 26.5 × 23 in (67 × 58 cm)
Mediums: Oil (5), Other (1)
Subjects: Abstract (1)

1957 Untitled$16.3kSign up
1957 Idyl$93.8kSign up
1958 Untitled$12kSign up
1958 Untitled, abstract$14kSign up
1959 Untitled$3.8kSign up
1959 Untitled Abstraction, 1959$15kSign up

1960s 3 works

Sold: 2 of 3
Median: $36.5kSign up
Average: $36.5kSign up
Typical size: 68 × 39 in (173 × 99 cm)
Mediums: Oil (3)
Subjects: —

1963 Pulse$52.5kSign up
1963 Curtain for AltitudeUnsold
1968 Autumn$20.5kSign up

1970s 7 works

Sold: 5 of 7
Median: $6kSign up
Average: $10.6kSign up
Typical size: 30 × 22 in (76 × 56 cm)
Mediums: Oil (4), Acrylic (3)
Subjects: —

1975 Untitled$6kSign up
1975 Untitled$23kSign up
1975 UntitledUnsold
1975 UntitledUnsold
1975 Untitled$5.1kSign up
1975 Untitled$5kSign up
1975 Untitled$13.8kSign up

1980s 8 works

Sold: 7 of 8
Median: $7.9kSign up
Average: $12.2kSign up
Typical size: 40 × 30 in (102 × 76 cm)
Mediums: Oil (8)
Subjects: —

1981 Untitled$6.3kSign up
1981 untitled$8.1kSign up
1982 Straw$4.8kSign up
1982 Straw 42$7.9kSign up
1982 Bondo$7.6kSign up
1983 UntitledUnsold
1985 Truth B$30.5kSign up
1987 Untitled$20kSign up

1990s 4 works

Sold: 2 of 4
Median: $4.1kSign up
Average: $4.1kSign up
Typical size: 27 × 33 in (68 × 84 cm)
Mediums: Acrylic (2), Oil (1), Screenprint (1)
Subjects: —

Creation date not recorded

9 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 2000s 7 works

Sold: 7 of 7
Median: $10.6kSign up
Average: $13.5kSign up
Typical size: 40 × 30 in (102 × 76 cm)
Mediums: Oil (5), Other (2)
Subjects: Abstract (1)

sold 2005 (American, 1917-2004)$29.4kSign up
sold 2005 (American, 1917-2004)$10.6kSign up
sold 2006 Composition$13.1kSign up
sold 2006 (American 1917-2004)$6kSign up
sold 2006 (American 1917-2004)$6kSign up
sold 2006 (American 1917-2004)$2.3kSign up

Show 1 more (2000s)

sold 2008 Untitled$27kSign up

Undated, sold in the 2020s 2 works

Sold: 2 of 2
Median: $6kSign up
Average: $6kSign up
Typical size: 25.5 × 22.5 in (65 × 57 cm)
Mediums: Oil (2)
Subjects: —

sold 2023 Untitled$3.6kSign up
sold 2026 Untitled$8.3kSign 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 Milton Resnick auction results →