Richmond Burton: career timeline

American · b. 1960 · Works grouped by the decade they were made (the cataloged date, or a date in the signature or title), not by sale date. 37 of 44 lots (84% 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.

Richmond Burton: 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
1980s	5	4	$1.1kSign up	Oil
1990s	29	24	$1.5kSign up	Oil
2000s	3	3	$1.7kSign up	Oil

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Year madeHeight (in)Width (in)MediumSubject

1980s 5 works

Sold: 4 of 5
Median: $1.1kSign up
Average: $1.4kSign up
Typical size: 11.5 × 36 in (29 × 91 cm)
Mediums: Oil (5)
Subjects: —

1985 BE BOP$3kSign up
1989 Quintuple Thought Plane #2$1.2kSign up
1989 Quadruple Thought Plane #3$590Sign up
1989 Untitled$938Sign up
c. 1989 ThreeUnsold

1990s 29 works

Sold: 24 of 29
Median: $1.5kSign up
Average: $2.2kSign up
Typical size: 21.5 × 23.5 in (55 × 60 cm)
Mediums: Oil (13), Woodcut / linocut (4), Etching (3)
Subjects: Flowers & still life (1)

1990 Untitled$3.8kSign up
1990 Thought Plane 22$1.9kSign up
1990 Picture of a Picture (Monochrome Threshold)$1.5kSign up
1990 Thought Plane 24$4.4kSign up
1990 untitled$1.3kSign up
1991 Thought Plane Assembly I & II$2kSign up
1991 Handset Studies (for the Parkett Project)$1.1kSign up
1991 Related to Glad Day$500Sign up
1991 Five (Morning)$6.3kSign up
c. 1992 Echoing Voices$6kSign up
1992 Seven Rose Lanterns$750Sign up
1992 Dust of Points 2Unsold

Show 12 more (1990s)

1992 The Sound of an Atom Splitting 2$6.9kSign up
1993 Heat$882Sign up
1994 Heart$813Sign up
1994 Heart; and BreatheUnsold
1996 View Behind the Curtain$3.3kSign up
1996 Untitled$504Sign up
1996 Flesh ValentineResult not published
1996 Telescope$688Sign up
1997 Everything is Early 2$1.5kSign up
1997 Untitled$1.6kSign up
1998 Untitled$768Sign up
1998 Frequent Flyer, 1998, reductionResult not published

…and 5 more works from this group in the full results list.

2000s 3 works

Sold: 3 of 3
Median: $1.7kSign up
Average: $2.2kSign up
Typical size: 22.5 × 30.5 in (57 × 78 cm)
Mediums: Oil (2), Drypoint (1)
Subjects: —

Creation date not recorded

7 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 2010s 4 works

Sold: 4 of 4
Median: $1.1kSign up
Average: $1.8kSign up
Typical size: —
Mediums: Other (4)
Subjects: Flowers & still life (1)

sold 2017 Quadruple Thought Plane #3$1.1kSign up
sold 2018 Love of the Blue Flame$1kSign up
sold 2018 Flesh Valentine$4.1kSign up
sold 2019 Rose Lanterns (Prototypes, A, B and C)$813Sign up

Undated, sold in the 2020s 3 works

Sold: 2 of 3
Median: $1.1kSign up
Average: $1.1kSign up
Typical size: 14.5 × 17.5 in (36 × 45 cm)
Mediums: Other (1), Mixed media (1), Gouache (1)
Subjects: Abstract (1)

sold 2021 Grouping of 6 Printed Invitations for Matthew Marks GalleryUnsold
sold 2022 Abstract$1.5kSign up
sold 2025 Untitled$635Sign 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 Richmond Burton auction results →