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Piero Fornasetti: career timeline

Italian · 1913–1988 · Works grouped by the decade they were made (the cataloged date, or a date in the signature or title), not by sale date. 154 of 344 lots (45% 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.

Piero Fornasetti: works at auction by decade the work was made. Each work counted once; medians use sold works only, in US dollars.
Decade madeWorksSoldMedian sold priceMain medium
1940s32$3.9kSign upOther
1950s9582$2.7kSign upLithograph
1960s4137$1.3kSign upLithograph
1970s109$1.9kSign upPrint (other)
1980s54$1.1kSign upOther

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1940s 3 works

Sold
2 of 3
Median
$3.9kSign up
Average
$3.9kSign up
Typical size
—
Mediums
Other (3)
Subjects
Butterflies (1)

1950s 95 works

Sold
82 of 95
Median
$2.7kSign up
Average
$14.3kSign up
Typical size
23 × 17.5 in (58 × 45 cm)
Mediums
Lithograph (36), Other (29), Print (other) (18)
Subjects
Flowers & still life (1)
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…and 71 more works from this group in the full results list.

1960s 41 works

Sold
37 of 41
Median
$1.3kSign up
Average
$4.5kSign up
Typical size
17.5 × 14.5 in (45 × 37 cm)
Mediums
Lithograph (14), Other (12), Print (other) (8)
Subjects
—
Show 12 more (1960s)

…and 17 more works from this group in the full results list.

1970s 10 works

Sold
9 of 10
Median
$1.9kSign up
Average
$9.5kSign up
Typical size
1 × 10 in (3 × 26 cm)
Mediums
Print (other) (4), Sculpture (3), Lithograph (2)
Subjects
Figures & portraits (1)

1980s 5 works

Sold
4 of 5
Median
$1.1kSign up
Average
$976Sign up
Typical size
26.5 × 15.5 in (67 × 40 cm)
Mediums
Other (2), Sculpture (1), Screenprint (1)
Subjects
—

Creation date not recorded

190 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 2 works

Sold
2 of 2
Median
$4.3kSign up
Average
$4.3kSign up
Typical size
41 × 79 in (105 × 201 cm)
Mediums
Other (1), Lithograph (1)
Subjects
—

Undated, sold in the 2010s 32 works

Sold
16 of 32
Median
$1.4kSign up
Average
$4kSign up
Typical size
36 × 31.5 in (92 × 80 cm)
Mediums
Other (24), Lithograph (3), Print (other) (2)
Subjects
—
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…and 20 more works from this group in the full results list.

Undated, sold in the 2020s 156 works

Sold
101 of 156
Median
$1.4kSign up
Average
$4.2kSign up
Typical size
22.5 × 16 in (57 × 41 cm)
Mediums
Other (85), Sculpture (23), Lithograph (19)
Subjects
—
Show 6 more (2020s)

…and 144 more works from this group in the full results list.

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 Piero Fornasetti auction results →