Miriam Schapiro: career timeline

American · 1923–2015 · Works grouped by the decade they were made (the cataloged date, or a date in the signature or title), not by sale date. 20 of 23 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.

Miriam Schapiro: 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	$6.1kSign up	Oil
1960s	1	1	$305Sign up	Drawing
1970s	4	3	$6.1kSign up	Acrylic
1980s	8	8	$5.8kSign up	Acrylic
1990s	2	2	$797Sign up	Screenprint
2000s	1	1	$64Sign up	Photograph

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Year madeHeight (in)Width (in)MediumSubject

1950s 1 work

Sold: 1 of 1
Median: $6.1kSign up
Average: $6.1kSign up
Typical size: 24 × 19.5 in (61 × 50 cm)
Mediums: Oil (1)
Subjects: Flowers & still life (1)

1956 Yellow Bouquet$6.1kSign up

1960s 1 work

Sold: 1 of 1
Median: $305Sign up
Average: $305Sign up
Typical size: 13.5 × 4.5 in (34 × 11 cm)
Mediums: Drawing (1)
Subjects: —

1961 Yesterday$305Sign up

1970s 4 works

Sold: 3 of 4
Median: $6.1kSign up
Average: $10.3kSign up
Typical size: 30 × 30 in (76 × 76 cm)
Mediums: Acrylic (3), Oil (1)
Subjects: —

1980s 8 works

Sold: 8 of 8
Median: $5.8kSign up
Average: $17.6kSign up
Typical size: 37.5 × 35.5 in (95 × 91 cm)
Mediums: Acrylic (6), Mixed media (1), Lithograph (1)
Subjects: —

1980 Eye Dazzler$50.4kSign up
1982 Carnival in Rio$4.8kSign up
c. 1982 Caliope Kiss$57.1kSign up
1982 House Plants$5.3kSign up
1982 A Mandarin Heart$6.3kSign up · sold 2×
1982 In the middle of a kiss$3.7kSign up
1983 Tampa$450Sign up
1988 Trio (triptych)$12.7kSign up

1990s 2 works

Sold: 2 of 2
Median: $797Sign up
Average: $797Sign up
Typical size: 21 × 24.5 in (53 × 63 cm)
Mediums: Screenprint (1), Lithograph (1)
Subjects: —

1992 Delaunay, Goncharova, Popova and Me.$1.1kSign up
1993 In the Land of Oo-Bla-Dee: Homage to Mary Lou Williams$459Sign up

2000s 1 work

Sold: 1 of 1
Median: $64Sign up
Average: $64Sign up
Typical size: 24.5 × 31 in (62 × 79 cm)
Mediums: Photograph (1)
Subjects: —

2004 Curtain Call 2$64Sign up · sold 3×

Creation date not recorded

3 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 2020s 3 works

Sold: 2 of 3
Median: $67.4kSign up
Average: $67.4kSign up
Typical size: 45 × 60 in (114 × 152 cm)
Mediums: Other (2), Oil (1)
Subjects: Abstract (1)

sold 2020 Ceramic PlateUnsold
sold 2022 Fan$109kSign up
sold 2022 Abstract$26kSign 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 Miriam Schapiro auction results →