Richard Tuttle: career timeline

American · b. 1941 · Works grouped by the decade they were made (the cataloged date, or a date in the signature or title), not by sale date. 104 of 131 lots (79% 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 Tuttle: 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
1960s	3	2	$85.1kSign up	Acrylic
1970s	16	12	$2.8kSign up	Drawing
1980s	17	12	$6.3kSign up	Watercolor
1990s	26	24	$2.2kSign up	Other
2000s	34	26	$1.6kSign up	Etching
2010s	5	5	$2.1kSign up	Aquatint

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Year madeHeight (in)Width (in)MediumSubject

1960s 3 works

Sold: 2 of 3
Median: $85.1kSign up
Average: $85.1kSign up
Typical size: 12 × 10 in (31 × 25 cm)
Mediums: Acrylic (1), Watercolor (1), Screenprint (1)
Subjects: —

1964 Light Brown, Dark Brown$165kSign up
1969 Stacked Color Series (2), No 42$5.5kSign up
1969 Two BooksUnsold

1970s 16 works

Sold: 12 of 16
Median: $2.8kSign up
Average: $4.9kSign up
Typical size: 14 × 10.5 in (36 × 27 cm)
Mediums: Drawing (5), Watercolor (5), Screenprint (2)
Subjects: —

1971 Drawing made with three lines of any color$5.3kSign up
1971 UntitledUnsold
1971 Three Drawings from the Whitney SeriesUnsold
1973 Untitled 1973 caUnsold
c. 1973 Auktion 432, Los 862$726Sign up
1974 Pt. Drawing No. 20$2.5kSign up
1975 No. 135 36" base line works (1)$1.3kSign up
1975 No. 127, 60" center works (4)$9.4kSign up
1975 untitled (No 190 Center Point Works)$1.7kSign up
1976 Print (diptych)$1.9kSign up
1976 Portland Works: Group II #6$3kSign up
1976 Drawing Made with Three Lines of Any Color$4.4kSign up

Show 4 more (1970s)

1977 Collage Drawings VII, #6 - #11$20.6kSign up
1977 Maine Works (1)$6kSign up
1977 Zwei mit Zwei (Two with Any Two) portfolioUnsold
c. 1978 Collection of artist's books and monographs, twenty-eight$1.5kSign up

1980s 17 works

Sold: 12 of 17
Median: $6.3kSign up
Average: $11.7kSign up
Typical size: 18 × 12 in (46 × 30 cm)
Mediums: Watercolor (5), Mixed media (2), Acrylic (2)
Subjects: —

1980 Untitled #34$5.3kSign up
1981 1002$6.8kSign up
1981 Vienna Series 15-33, No. 9$10.2kSign up
1983 Suite (Sarabend)$550Sign up
1983 Untitled$8kSign up
1983 A Drawing Book$2.1kSign up
1984 Representation 4Unsold · sold 2×
1984 Custom and Presentation 16$6.8kSign up
1985 Untitled$5.8kSign up
1986 Blue Star Transparent OrangeUnsold
1988 WUnsold
1988 WUnsold

Show 5 more (1980s)

1988 Lonesome Cowboy Styrofoam #2Unsold
1988 Lonesome Cowboy Styrofoam #8$14.4kSign up
1988 Crows on the Roof #12$5.3kSign up
1989 Sentences IV. Aus der Serie: Twenty Floor Drawings$74.7kSign up
1989 40 Tage$280Sign up

1990s 26 works

Sold: 24 of 26
Median: $2.2kSign up
Average: $4.5kSign up
Typical size: 14 × 15.5 in (35 × 40 cm)
Mediums: Other (9), Screenprint (3), Acrylic (3)
Subjects: Flowers & still life (1), Landscapes (1), Sunsets & night (1)

1990 Rose Then$12.6kSign up
1990 Plastic History (Portfolio)$762Sign up
1990 Smell of Trees$2.5kSign up
1990 26th Line Piece$20kSign up
1991 Perceived Obstacle$1kSign up
1992 According to the Dawn, III (C)Result not published · sold 3×
1993 Santa Fe II$8kSign up
c. 1994 Mesa Chair (4/5 Prototype)$1.7kSign up
c. 1994 Mesa Chair$1.9kSign up
1994 Lamp with No Style$1.4kSign up
c. 1994 Mesa Chair$1.9kSign up
1994 Mei Mei's lamp$1.8kSign up

Show 12 more (1990s)

c. 1994 Whiteness 7$22.5kSign up
1994 Illuminated sculpture$3.8kSign up
c. 1995 Source of Imagery, II, No. 3$3.8kSign up
1996 Five-light chandelier$2.5kSign up
1998 The Edge$2.4kSign up
1998 Mandevilla 4$1.5kSign up
1998 The Edge$5.6kSign up
1998 The Edge portfolio (thirteen works)$4.7kSign up
1999 Flip (from Exit 99: Exit Art Portfolio 1999)$532Sign up
c. 1999 White Sails$732Sign up
1999 Flip (from Exit 99: Exit Art Portfolio 1999)$792Sign up
1999 Painted Boxes, (L50.1.99.29)Unsold

…and 2 more works from this group in the full results list.

2000s 34 works

Sold: 26 of 34
Median: $1.6kSign up
Average: $3kSign up
Typical size: 14 × 13.5 in (36 × 34 cm)
Mediums: Etching (6), Aquatint (5), Sculpture (4)
Subjects: —

2000 Up, to 7$2.5kSign up
2000 Onoma$4.1kSign up
2000 Up to 7Unsold
2001 Perceived Obstacles$630Sign up
2002 Costume A (from the Costume portfolio)$699Sign up
2002 Entertaining...$953Sign up
2002 Memento/cENTER$163Sign up
2002 prototype Any Bench$10kSign up
2003 Light on Water (A)$330Sign up
2003 Censorship$2.8kSign up
2003 Label (13-16)$1.6kSign up
2003 Celebration #10$7.4kSign up

Show 12 more (2000s)

2004 VResult not published
2004 1845$635Sign up
2004 Label 9-12 series$5kSign up
2005 Autumn (Seasons)$1.4kSign up
2005 Six NailsUnsold
2005 Six Nails$1.9kSign up
2005 Six Nails$1kSign up
2005 Space-is-Concrete (21)Unsold
2006 Walk #5$6.6kSign up
2006 Color Overlap (A)$4.2kSign up
2006 Space Movement IIUnsold
2006 Space Movement IIUnsold

…and 10 more works from this group in the full results list.

2010s 5 works

Sold: 5 of 5
Median: $2.1kSign up
Average: $4.9kSign up
Typical size: 9.5 × 8.5 in (24 × 22 cm)
Mediums: Aquatint (1), Etching (1), Drypoint (1)
Subjects: —

2011 Pacific Seriously$2.2kSign up
2012 Calm Down$438Sign up
2012 When Pressure Exceeds Weight VII$2.1kSign up
2014 The End$1.5kSign up
2017 They Don’t Come Out To You, III$18.2kSign up

Creation date not recorded

27 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 4 works

Sold: 4 of 4
Median: $1.7kSign up
Average: $1.8kSign up
Typical size: 13 × 9.5 in (33 × 24 cm)
Mediums: Watercolor (2), Mixed media (1), Oil (1)
Subjects: —

sold 2002 Loophole$1.5kSign up
sold 2003 Ohne Titel$1.7kSign up
sold 2003 Ohne Titel$1.6kSign up
sold 2005 Two with Any Two$2.3kSign up

Undated, sold in the 2010s 15 works

Sold: 14 of 15
Median: $3.6kSign up
Average: $7.4kSign up
Typical size: 14 × 14 in (35 × 36 cm)
Mediums: Other (9), Watercolor (3), Screenprint (1)
Subjects: Landscapes (2)

sold 2011 Untitled from Letters (the Twenty-Six Series)$58.2kSign up
sold 2016 One Voice in Four PartsUnsold
sold 2016 This drawing is about something just before, something like three or maybe four$4.2kSign up
sold 2017 A B C D E$2.4kSign up
sold 2018 Smell of Trees$5.6kSign up
sold 2018 Untitled$1.6kSign up

Show 6 more (2010s)

sold 2019 We$3.8kSign up
sold 2019 We$2.8kSign up
sold 2019 Four-light chandelier (Prototype)$1.4kSign up
sold 2019 Smell of Trees$4.1kSign up
sold 2019 Two-light chandelier$2.6kSign up
sold 2019 Three-light chandelier$3.4kSign up

…and 3 more works from this group in the full results list.

Undated, sold in the 2020s 8 works

Sold: 7 of 8
Median: $3.3kSign up
Average: $5.2kSign up
Typical size: 14 × 11 in (35 × 28 cm)
Mediums: Other (3), Print (other) (2), Etching (1)
Subjects: —

sold 2020 The Table and a Chair$16.5kSign up
sold 2020 Whitney Series ND$9.3kSign up
sold 2021 Untitled$1.1kSign up
sold 2022 Untitled$2.1kSign up
sold 2023 Untitled$3.3kSign up
sold 2024 Point Drawing No. 34$3.3kSign up

Show 2 more (2020s)

sold 2024 Untitled$825Sign up
sold 2025 Poem in Corner #1Unsold

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 Tuttle auction results →