Seydou Keïta: career timeline
Malian · 1923–2001 · Works grouped by the decade they were made (the cataloged date, or a date in the signature or title), not by sale date. 45 of 51 lots (88% 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.
| Decade made | Works | Sold | Median sold price | Main medium |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1940s | 11 | 6 | $8.1kSign up | Photograph |
| 1950s | 33 | 24 | $5.6kSign up | Photograph |
| 1990s | 1 | 1 | $6.3kSign up | Photograph |
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1940s 11 works
- Sold
- 6 of 11
- Median
- $8.1kSign up
- Average
- $15.3kSign up
- Typical size
- 21.5 × 15 in (55 × 39 cm)
- Mediums
- Photograph (11)
- Subjects
- Figures & portraits (4)
c. 1948 Untitled (boy with bicycle)Unsold
c. 1949 Untitled (father and daughter, Bamako)$6.3kSign up
c. 1949 Untitled (Father and daughter, Bamako)$41.1kSign up
1949 Three women wearing 'Grand dakar' dresses and 'a la de gaulle' headscarvesUnsold
c. 1949 UntitledUnsold
c. 1949 UntitledUnsold
1949 Untitled (young woman wearing a black and white striped dress)Unsold
c. 1949 Untitled$22.5kSign up
c. 1949 Untitled$9.4kSign up
c. 1949 Untitled (Boy and Bicycle)$6.9kSign up
1949 Maurische Haratine-Frau mit Tochter auf einer karierten Decke (koso walan)$5.8kSign up
1950s 33 works
- Sold
- 24 of 33
- Median
- $5.6kSign up
- Average
- $7.2kSign up
- Typical size
- 18.5 × 15.5 in (47 × 39 cm)
- Mediums
- Photograph (33)
- Subjects
- Figures & portraits (10)
c. 1950 Young man in pinstripe suit, 1950s$1.7kSign up
c. 1950 Twins in European Dress, 1950s$1.6kSign up
c. 1950 A Young Girl Wearing a 'Robe Samba' dress$10kSign up
c. 1950 Untitled #110$5.3kSign up
c. 1951 Konvolut von 7 Fotografien$9.5kSign up
c. 1952 Homme Assis Avec Parapluie, Homme Debout En Blanc$6.5kSign up
c. 1952 Homme Assis Avec Parapluie, Homme Debout En BlancUnsold
c. 1952 Untitled (A Father with His Two Daughters)$6.3kSign up
c. 1952 Selected PortraitsUnsold
1952 Selected PortraitsUnsold
1952 Selected PortraitsUnsold
c. 1952 UntitledUnsold
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c. 1952 Untitled$6kSign up
c. 1952 Untitled$4.8kSign up
c. 1952 Untitled$8.1kSign up
c. 1952 Untitled$7.9kSign up
c. 1952 Untitled (Man with Bicycle)Unsold
1956 Bamako$1.1kSign up
c. 1956 Untitled (woman with Republican guards in leave uniforms)$5.1kSign up
c. 1956 Untitled (A Malian Patriarch)$5.1kSign up
c. 1956 Untitled$4.5kSign up
1956 Polizeibeamter der Kolonialverwaltung mit seinen beiden Ehefrauen$4.7kSign up
c. 1956 Untitled (two sisters with their arms around each other)$7.5kSign up
c. 1956 Untitled (Odalisque)$9kSign up
…and 9 more works from this group in the full results list.
1990s 1 work
Creation date not recorded
6 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 1 work
sold 2017 Untitled (56 A 57$8.8kSign up
Undated, sold in the 2020s 5 works
- Sold
- 5 of 5
- Median
- $5.6kSign up
- Average
- $6.2kSign up
- Typical size
- 20 × 17 in (51 × 43 cm)
- Mediums
- Photograph (5)
- Subjects
- Figures & portraits (2)
sold 2020 Untitled (young woman wearing a head-scarf)$8.8kSign up
sold 2020 Untitled (father and daughter)$10.6kSign up
sold 2021 Bamako (Reclining Couple 10:06 AM)$5.6kSign up
sold 2023 Untitled (Portrait)$3.3kSign up
sold 2025 Untitled (Bamako, Mali)$2.5kSign 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 Seydou Keïta auction results →