Richard Larter: career timeline

Australian · 1929–2014 · Works grouped by the decade they were made (the cataloged date, or a date in the signature or title), not by sale date. 41 of 43 lots (95% 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.

Richard Larter: 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	$7.3kSign up	Oil
1960s	8	6	$8.5kSign up	Acrylic
1970s	10	8	$7.3kSign up	Oil
1980s	8	7	$6.5kSign up	Acrylic
1990s	10	9	$3.8kSign up	Acrylic
2000s	2	1	$4.2kSign up	Sculpture

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Year madeHeight (in)Width (in)Medium

1950s 1 work

Sold: 1 of 1
Median: $7.3kSign up
Average: $7.3kSign up
Typical size: 24 × 24 in (62 × 61 cm)
Mediums: Oil (1)
Subjects: —

1959 Film Goddess 1959$7.3kSign up

1960s 8 works

Sold: 6 of 8
Median: $8.5kSign up
Average: $9.4kSign up
Typical size: 42 × 42 in (107 × 106 cm)
Mediums: Acrylic (4), Oil (2), Other (1)
Subjects: —

c. 1961 Painting 1961-66Unsold
1961 Madge 1961$3.2kSign up
1962 Nu Allongé 1962$16.6kSign up
1964 Fiat Famis 1964$8.1kSign up
1966 Pat 1966$8.8kSign up
1967 Two Figs and a Face 1967$19.7kSign up
1967 Untitled 1967Unsold
c. 1968 Untitled$100Sign up

1970s 10 works

Sold: 8 of 10
Median: $7.3kSign up
Average: $8.1kSign up
Typical size: 70.5 × 44.5 in (179 × 113 cm)
Mediums: Oil (4), Acrylic (4), Mixed media (1)
Subjects: —

1970 Megs - Set 1970$3.5kSign up · sold 2×
1970 Marilyn (Has Track Set) 1970$6.5kSign up
1972 Soft Fix Symposium 1972$18.1kSign up
1973 Luddenham Evocation 1973$8.8kSign up
1974 Dead Eye Glitter 1974$5.5kSign up
1975 Pat 1975Unsold
1977 It's Just Ice 1977Unsold
1978 Dingle Dangle Ingle Angle 1978$9.8kSign up
1979 King Kay Foresakes$8.1kSign up
1979 Untitled$4.8kSign up

1980s 8 works

Sold: 7 of 8
Median: $6.5kSign up
Average: $6.8kSign up
Typical size: 69.5 × 50 in (177 × 127 cm)
Mediums: Acrylic (7), Oil (1)
Subjects: —

1990s 10 works

Sold: 9 of 10
Median: $3.8kSign up
Average: $4.6kSign up
Typical size: 61.5 × 38.5 in (157 × 98 cm)
Mediums: Acrylic (7), Sculpture (2), Mixed media (1)
Subjects: —

1991 Houses of Joy (Melbourne) 1991$5.3kSign up
1992 Pat Larter$271Sign up
1994 Nothing is What You Get 1994Unsold
1995 Vernal$456Sign up · sold 2×
1995 Oyster Bed 1995$14.8kSign up
1995 How Come 1995$3.8kSign up
1996 Into Silence 1996$6kSign up
1996 Julie #117 1996$6.7kSign up
1999 La Vie 1999$3kSign up
1999 Genome Part$1.1kSign up

2000s 2 works

Sold: 1 of 2
Median: $4.2kSign up
Average: $4.2kSign up
Typical size: 35 × 23.5 in (90 × 60 cm)
Mediums: Sculpture (2)
Subjects: —

2002 Julie #165 2002$4.2kSign up
2002 Julie #165 2002Unsold

Creation date not recorded

2 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 2 works

Sold: 2 of 2
Median: $1.8kSign up
Average: $1.8kSign up
Typical size: 58 × 14 in (147 × 36 cm)
Mediums: Acrylic (2)
Subjects: —

sold 2025 (2)$1.8kSign up
sold 2025 (2)$1.8kSign 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 Richard Larter auction results →